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1956 Harry Warner and Albert Warner sold their interest in the studio and
the board was joined by new members who favoured a renewed expansion into
the music business: Charles Allen, Serge Semenenko and David Baird. With
the record business booming (sales had topped US$500 million by 1958) Semenenko
argued that it was foolish for Warners to make deals with other companies
to release its soundtracks when, for less than the cost of one motion picture,
they could establish their own label, creating a new income stream that
could continue promoting its contract actors.
Warner Bros Records opened for business on 19 March 1958. Over the years, Warner Bros. Records grew from a struggling minor player in the industry to become one of the top recording labels in the world. Distribution in Norway was by Egil Monn Iversen A/S until 1966. Later by Phonogram. 1970's Norwegian pressings have "710" in the wax. |
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