Record Label
For all unofficial / bootleg release of this label please see [[label:161866]]. For the record company see [[label:United Artists Records Inc.]], for the publishing company see [[label:United Artists Music Co., Inc.]] **History** 1958: United Artists Records, a subsidiary of the United Artists film studio, was founded by movie producer [[artist:Max E. Youngstein]] initially to distribute records of its own soundtracks. It soon branched out into recording music of a number of different genres. 1960: [[label:United Artists Ultra Audio]], a label for special wide ranged stereo recording, was introduced. US mono releases commonly mention the [[label:Wall To Wall Sound]] series & the cat# prefix WW. US stereo releases [[label:Wall To Wall Stereo]] series and the WWS cat# prefix. 1967: In May the [[label:Transamerica Corporation]] acquired 95,7 % of [[label:United Artists Records, Inc.]], as mentioned on the front page of Billboard 30. Sept. 1967. The 'Unart' label was revived as a budget label in September. 1968: [[label:Liberty]] bought by [[label:Transamerica Corporation]] in June. Both labels got under one umbrella now. 1971: [[label:Liberty]] was shut down and merged into UA. 1979: After successful years in the 1970s, especially in the jazz and mainstream pop branches, United Artists Records was bought by UA executives [[artist:Artie Mogull]] and Jerry Rubinstein from the holding company [[label:Transamerica Corporation]]. When United Artists Records lost the distribution deal with [[label:Jet Records]] and with it the whole sales of the [[artist:Electric Light Orchestra]] in the same year, the company was swallowed by the [[label:EMI Group]]. 1980: [[label:EMI]] revived the [[label:Liberty]] label, transferred all UA-Artists and closed down the label in the same year. **International** Belgium: represented by [[label:S.A. Fonior N.V.]] between ca. 1961-1964, afterwards by [[label:S.A. Gramophone N.V.]] Netherlands: manufactured by [[label:Philips Phonografische Industrie]] between ca. 1960-1963, represented by [[label:Artone Gramofoonplaten]] between 1964-1969 and by [[label:Bovema]] afterwards. UK: distributed by [[label:E.M.I. Records Limited]] until approximately middle of 1968, when the company changed to [[label:Liberty Records Limited]].