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to K 5446 - 1974 |
to ODK 4236 - 1971 US Ode recordings |
to ODK 4928 - 1972 US Ode recordings |
to ASK 4997 - 1973 US Sussex recordings |
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A&M Records was formed in 1962 by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss. Their
first choice for a name was “Carnival Records”, under which they released
two singles before discovering another label had taken the Carnival name
first. The company was subsequently renamed A&M, after Alpert's
and Moss's initials. Within a decade of its inception, A&M became the
world's largest independent record company.
In Australia Festival Records started issuing the A&M label in 1966. They had released earlier records on their Festival label. The label pretty much followed the US label progression. Sussex and Ode 70 didn’t have separate labels in Australia - they were incorporated in the brown label design with their logo on opposite side of the A&M logo. Separate labels were to come later starting with the Ode label. |
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