Stateside ($tateside)
Records is a British
record labelIn the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
which initially released licenced American recordings and is now a reissue label.
It was formed in
1962-Events:*January 1 - The Beatles and Brian Poole and the Tremeloes both audition at Decca Records, a company which has the option of signing one group only...
by
EMIThe EMI Group is a British music company. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry, making it one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major publishing arm- EMI Music Publishing- based in New York City...
as a replacement for the Top Rank label (originally the
Rank OrganisationThe Rank Organisation was a British entertainment company formed during 1937 and absorbed in 1996 by The Rank Group Plc. Its film division once distributed Universal Pictures releases in the UK...
's label), which had folded. EMI hired former Top Rank label head Fred Oxon to run the label and compete with
Decca RecordsDecca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; later the link with the British company was broken for several decades...
' rival
LondonLondon Records is a record label headquartered in the United Kingdom, originally marketing records in the United States, Canada and Latin America from 1947 through 1979, then becoming a semi-independent label.-History:...
label. While Top Rank's British acts (such as
John LeytonJohn Leyton is a English actor and singer. As a singer he is best known for his hit song, "Johnny Remember Me" , which reached Number 1 in the UK Singles Chart in August 1961.-Career:Leyton went to Highgate School and after completing his National Service, he...
) were assigned to EMI's
ColumbiaThe Columbia Graphophone Company was one of the earliest gramophone companies in the United Kingdom.- Early history :In 1922, Columbia Phonograph, as it was then known, sold its UK subsidiary Columbia Graphophone. However, in 1925 Columbia Graphophone bought its former parent for $2.5 million. In...
and HMV labels, Stateside continued to issue records from its American suppliers, such as Tamla-Motown-Gordy,
Amyright|thumb|dj copy of Kinetic Energy 1969 Amy 45Amy Records was a record label formed in 1960 as a subsidiary of Bell Records. Artists who had success on Amy included Al Brown's Tunetoppers with "The Madison" ,a dance tune in 1960, Joey Powers with "Midnight Mary" , Del Shannon's 1964 recordings...
,
BellBell Records was an American record label founded in 1952 by Arthur Shimkin in New York after the rights to the name were acquired from Benny Bell who used the Bell name to issue risque novelty records. A British branch was also active in the 1960s and 1970s...
, 20th Century Fox,
ScepterScepter Records is a record company founded in 1959 by Florence Greenberg. She had just sold Tiara Records with The Shirelles for $4000 to Decca Records. When The Shirelles didn't produce any hits for Decca, they were given back to Greenberg, who promptly signed them. By 1961 Greenberg launched a...
, Vee-Jay and
A&MA&M Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group which operates through the Interscope-Geffen-A&M division.-Beginnings:...
.
Stateside ($tateside)
Records is a British
record labelIn the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
which initially released licenced American recordings and is now a reissue label.
It was formed in
1962-Events:*January 1 - The Beatles and Brian Poole and the Tremeloes both audition at Decca Records, a company which has the option of signing one group only...
by
EMIThe EMI Group is a British music company. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry, making it one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major publishing arm- EMI Music Publishing- based in New York City...
as a replacement for the Top Rank label (originally the
Rank OrganisationThe Rank Organisation was a British entertainment company formed during 1937 and absorbed in 1996 by The Rank Group Plc. Its film division once distributed Universal Pictures releases in the UK...
's label), which had folded. EMI hired former Top Rank label head Fred Oxon to run the label and compete with
Decca RecordsDecca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; later the link with the British company was broken for several decades...
' rival
LondonLondon Records is a record label headquartered in the United Kingdom, originally marketing records in the United States, Canada and Latin America from 1947 through 1979, then becoming a semi-independent label.-History:...
label. While Top Rank's British acts (such as
John LeytonJohn Leyton is a English actor and singer. As a singer he is best known for his hit song, "Johnny Remember Me" , which reached Number 1 in the UK Singles Chart in August 1961.-Career:Leyton went to Highgate School and after completing his National Service, he...
) were assigned to EMI's
ColumbiaThe Columbia Graphophone Company was one of the earliest gramophone companies in the United Kingdom.- Early history :In 1922, Columbia Phonograph, as it was then known, sold its UK subsidiary Columbia Graphophone. However, in 1925 Columbia Graphophone bought its former parent for $2.5 million. In...
and HMV labels, Stateside continued to issue records from its American suppliers, such as Tamla-Motown-Gordy,
Amyright|thumb|dj copy of Kinetic Energy 1969 Amy 45Amy Records was a record label formed in 1960 as a subsidiary of Bell Records. Artists who had success on Amy included Al Brown's Tunetoppers with "The Madison" ,a dance tune in 1960, Joey Powers with "Midnight Mary" , Del Shannon's 1964 recordings...
,
BellBell Records was an American record label founded in 1952 by Arthur Shimkin in New York after the rights to the name were acquired from Benny Bell who used the Bell name to issue risque novelty records. A British branch was also active in the 1960s and 1970s...
, 20th Century Fox,
ScepterScepter Records is a record company founded in 1959 by Florence Greenberg. She had just sold Tiara Records with The Shirelles for $4000 to Decca Records. When The Shirelles didn't produce any hits for Decca, they were given back to Greenberg, who promptly signed them. By 1961 Greenberg launched a...
, Vee-Jay and
A&MA&M Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group which operates through the Interscope-Geffen-A&M division.-Beginnings:...
. Its first hit was
Palisades Park"Palisades Park" is a song written by Chuck Barris and recorded by Freddy Cannon.A tribute to New Jersey's Palisades Amusement Park, the song is an up-tempo tune led by a distinctive organ part...
by
Freddy CannonFreddy Cannon is an American rock and roll singer. He is best known for his transatlantic, million selling, Top 10 hit, "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans."-Biography:...
, which was licenced from
Swan RecordsSwan Records was a mid-20th century United States based record label, founded in 1957, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It had a subsidiary label called Lawn Records....
. It was through EMI's relationship with Vee-Jay and Swan that pre-1964 recordings by
The BeatlesThe Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960 who became one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music...
were released by those labels in the USA when EMI's American subsidiary
CapitolCapitol Records is a major United States-based record label owned by EMI and located in Los Angeles and New York City as part of Capitol Music Group...
turned them down.
In the late 1960s, when EMI set up long term licence contracts with US labels like
MotownMotown Records was a group of record labels originally based in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Founded by Berry Gordy, Jr. on January 12, 1959 as Tamla Records, the company was incorporated as Motown Record Corporation on April 14, 1960. The name, a portmanteau of the words motor and town, is also a...
,
MCAMCA Records was an American-based record company owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group , of which MCA Records was still part...
and
AsylumAsylum Records is an American record label, owned by Warner Music Group, and is currently distributed through Warner Bros. Records. After various incarnations, today it is geared primarily towards hip-hop music.-Formation:...
, it no longer needed Stateside, and the label retired quietly in 1973 (along with the
EMI ColumbiaThe Columbia Graphophone Company was one of the earliest gramophone companies in the United Kingdom.- Early history :In 1922, Columbia Phonograph, as it was then known, sold its UK subsidiary Columbia Graphophone. However, in 1925 Columbia Graphophone bought its former parent for $2.5 million. In...
and HMV POP labels) in favour of the new
EMIEMI Records is a record label, founded by EMI in 1972 as the successor to the Columbia label. The global success that EMI enjoyed with pop music in the 1960s also exposed trade mark issues as EMI only had the rights to some of its trade marks, most notably His Master's Voice and Columbia, in parts...
label.
Stateside has retrospectively attracted interest from northern soul fans, mainly for its role in passing on American Motown recordings to the UK market. Stateside issued 45 of these prior to the establishment of the UK Tamla Motown label, including the number 1 "Baby Love" in 1964.
In the 1980s, the Stateside label was revived as a catalogue reissue label specialising in American recordings from Capitol Records and other labels EMI acquired over the years.