| Paramount Records | |
|---|---|
| Parent company | Famous Music (1969–1974) |
| Founded | July 10, 1969 |
| Founder | Paramount Pictures |
| Status | Defunct, sold toABC Records in 1974, catalog now owned byUniversal Music Group |
| Distributor | Self-distributed |
| Genre | Pop music Movie soundtracks |
| Country of origin | United States |
Paramount Records was arecord label started in 1969 byParamount Pictures (then a unit ofGulf+Western) after acquiring the rights to the name from George H. Buck. A previousParamount Records, active between 1917 and 1932, had been unconnected to Paramount Pictures. The new Paramount label reissued pop releases by sister labelDot Records, which had recently become a country label and, in the process, had its entire pop back catalog deleted completely. It also released new albums from other pop musicians and soundtracks of Paramount films such asPaint Your Wagon, among others. Cast members of theParamount Television seriesThe Brady Bunch were signed, and the label issued several tie-in albums and singles.
After Gulf+Western sold its record label holdings toABC (which happened to have aired theBrady Bunch TV series) in 1974, the Paramount label was discontinued in favor ofABC Records, which itself was sold toMCARecords in 1979. MCA itself had previously purchased Paramount's pre-1950 sound film library in 1958, currently managed byUniversal Television subsidiaryEMKA, Ltd. The Paramount catalog is now owned byUniversal Music Group and managed byGeffen Records (whose founder,David Geffen, later became a co-founder ofDreamWorks, which was a sister studio of Paramount from 2006 to 2008, and whose own record catalog is now owned by Universal).
On a side note, MCA continued to release soundtracks to some later Paramount films into the 1990s.Sliding Doors (1998) was the last Paramount release to have its soundtrack issued by MCA.
In 2015, Paramount Pictures revived the label asParamount Music - a record label specializing in soundtracks from Paramount movies, with distribution byTuneCore.
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