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For the label that owned Coral Records, see Decca Records
Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 in music by Edward Lewis . Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; later the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
.


Coral Records was a Decca Records
Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 in music by Edward Lewis . Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; later the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
 subsidiary formed in 1949. It recorded pop artists McGuire Sisters and Teresa Brewer
Teresa Brewer

Teresa Brewer was an United States pop and jazz singer who was one of the most popular female singers of the 1950s. Born Theresa Breuer in Toledo, Ohio, Brewer died of a neuromuscular disease at her home in New Rochelle at the age of 76....
 as well as rock 'n' roller Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly

Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
.

It was based in the United States of America
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. Various jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 and swing
Swing (genre)

Swing music, also known as swing jazz or simply swing, is a form of jazz music that developed in the early 1930s and had solidified as a distinctive style by 1935 in the United States....
 band recordings were issued on Coral in the 1940s. Coral's A&R manager Bob Thiele
Bob Thiele

Bob Thiele was an United States record producer. His wife was the singer Teresa Brewer.He hosted a jazz radio show when he was 14. He also played clarinet and led a band in the New York area....
 would marry Coral artist Teresa Brewer
Teresa Brewer

Teresa Brewer was an United States pop and jazz singer who was one of the most popular female singers of the 1950s. Born Theresa Breuer in Toledo, Ohio, Brewer died of a neuromuscular disease at her home in New Rochelle at the age of 76....
. Coral Records is fondly remembered by early rock & roll fans as the home of the incomparable Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly

Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
 and The Crickets
The Crickets

The Crickets were a rock & roll band from Lubbock, Texas, formed by singer/songwriter Buddy Holly in the 1950s.Their first hit record was "That'll Be the Day," released in 1957....
.






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For the label that owned Coral Records, see Decca Records
Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 in music by Edward Lewis . Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; later the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
.


Coral Records was a Decca Records
Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 in music by Edward Lewis . Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; later the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
 subsidiary formed in 1949. It recorded pop artists McGuire Sisters and Teresa Brewer
Teresa Brewer

Teresa Brewer was an United States pop and jazz singer who was one of the most popular female singers of the 1950s. Born Theresa Breuer in Toledo, Ohio, Brewer died of a neuromuscular disease at her home in New Rochelle at the age of 76....
 as well as rock 'n' roller Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly

Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
.

It was based in the United States of America
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. Various jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 and swing
Swing (genre)

Swing music, also known as swing jazz or simply swing, is a form of jazz music that developed in the early 1930s and had solidified as a distinctive style by 1935 in the United States....
 band recordings were issued on Coral in the 1940s. Coral's A&R manager Bob Thiele
Bob Thiele

Bob Thiele was an United States record producer. His wife was the singer Teresa Brewer.He hosted a jazz radio show when he was 14. He also played clarinet and led a band in the New York area....
 would marry Coral artist Teresa Brewer
Teresa Brewer

Teresa Brewer was an United States pop and jazz singer who was one of the most popular female singers of the 1950s. Born Theresa Breuer in Toledo, Ohio, Brewer died of a neuromuscular disease at her home in New Rochelle at the age of 76....
. Coral Records is fondly remembered by early rock & roll fans as the home of the incomparable Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly

Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
 and The Crickets
The Crickets

The Crickets were a rock & roll band from Lubbock, Texas, formed by singer/songwriter Buddy Holly in the 1950s.Their first hit record was "That'll Be the Day," released in 1957....
. Coral was swallowed up by MCA Records
MCA Records

MCA Records was an United States-based record label owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group , of which MCA Records was still part....
 in the late 1960s. In 1973, MCA amalgamated Decca, Kapp Records
Kapp Records

Kapp Records was a record label started in 1955 in music by David Kapp, brother of Jack Kapp . Kapp licensed its records to London Records for release in the UK....
, Uni Records
Uni Records

Uni Records was a record label owned by Music Corporation of America. The brand, which long featured a distinct UNi logo, was established in 1966 in music by MCA executive Ned Tanen and developed by music industry veteran Russ Regan....
 and Vocalion Records
Vocalion Records

Vocalion Records was a record label historically active in the United States and in the United Kingdom.Vocalion was founded in 1916 by the Aeolian Piano Company of New York City, which also introduced a line of phonographs at the same time....
 under the single MCA Records banner, and the MCA Coral label became the company's mid-line and budget reissue label in the USA and internationally throughout the 1970s.

In the late 1950s Debbie Reynolds
Debbie Reynolds

Mary Frances "Debbie" Reynolds is an Academy Award-nominated United States actor, singer, and dancer....
 briefly recorded for Coral, with such songs as "Tammy
Tammy

Tammy may refer to:*...
".

The catalogue is today owned by Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group is the largest business group and family of record labels in the Record industry. With a 25.5% market share, it is one of the Music industry....
.

Coral Records artists

  • Steve Allen
    Steve Allen

    Steve Allen may refer to:*Steve Allen , American musician, comedian, and writer*Steve Allen , presenter on the London-based talk radio station LBC 97.3...
     & his Orchestra
  • Milton Berle
    Milton Berle

    Milton Berle, born Milton Berlinger was an Emmy-winning United States comedian and actor. As the manic host of NBC's Texaco Star Theater , he was the first major star of television and as such became known as Uncle Miltie and Mr....
  • Teresa Brewer
    Teresa Brewer

    Teresa Brewer was an United States pop and jazz singer who was one of the most popular female singers of the 1950s. Born Theresa Breuer in Toledo, Ohio, Brewer died of a neuromuscular disease at her home in New Rochelle at the age of 76....
  • Doug Bragg
  • Johnny Burnette Trio
  • Patsy Cline
    Patsy Cline

    Patsy Cline was an United States country music singer who enjoyed pop music crossover success during the era of the Nashville Sound in the early 1960s....
  • Don Cornell
    Don Cornell

    Don Cornell was an United States singing of the 1940s and 1950s.Born Luigi Varlaro in The Bronx, New York City, Cornell got his start with trumpeter Red Nichols and bandleader Sammy Kaye before going solo ....
  • Bob Crosby
    Bob Crosby

    Bob Crosby was an United States dixieland bandleader and vocalist, best known for his group Crosby and the Bob-Cats.He was the youngest of seven children: five boys, Larry Crosby , Everett , Ted , Bing Crosby and Bob; and two girls, Catherine and Mary Rose ....
     & His Orchestra
  • Pete Fountain
    Pete Fountain

    Pierre Dewey LaFontaine, Jr. , is a New Orleans clarinetist. According to a Belgium radio program , his name was originally Pierre de la Fontaine....
  • Greg Hatza
    Greg Hatza

    Greg Hatza is an American jazz organist from Reading, Pennsylvania.Hatza started on piano at age five, and switched to organ at age fifteen. He played professionally from age sixteen, working for four years at Lenny Moore's club....
  • Milt Herth
    Milt Herth

    Milton "Milt" Herth was an United States jazz organist, known for his work on the Hammond organ in the 1930s, soon after it was invented. Herth's work is available from his recordings of the 1930s and 1940s....
     Trio
  • Buddy Holly
    Buddy Holly

    Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
     (and The Crickets
    The Crickets

    The Crickets were a rock & roll band from Lubbock, Texas, formed by singer/songwriter Buddy Holly in the 1950s.Their first hit record was "That'll Be the Day," released in 1957....
    )
  • Lennon Sisters
  • McGuire Sisters
  • Barbara McNair
    Barbara McNair

    Barbara McNair was an United States singer and actress.Born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Racine, Wisconsin, McNair studied music at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago....
  • Debbie Reynolds
    Debbie Reynolds

    Mary Frances "Debbie" Reynolds is an Academy Award-nominated United States actor, singer, and dancer....
  • Tony & The Bandits
  • Jackie Verdell
    Jackie Verdell

    Jackie Verdell was an American Gospel music singer, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
  • The Vogues
    The Vogues

    The Vogues were an United States singing quartet from Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania suburb....


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See also

  • List of record labels
    List of record labels

    This is a list of notable record labels.Owing to the large number of entries, the list has been divided by the first letter of the label's name, with labels starting with a number added to this page:...