ODEON
RECORDS
Independent label: Odeon Records started life in 1902, in
Berlin, as the imprint of the International Talking Machine Company. It
linked up with US company Okeh, and in 1921 Okeh introduced an American version
of the Odeon label. In 1926 Odeon was sold to the Columbia Phonograph
Company; five years later it became part of the Electrical and Musical
Industries group. Records made by Electrical and Musical Industries / EMI
and issued on labels such as Parlophone in Britain appeared on the Odeon label
all over the world, as did records made by branches of that company in other
countries - EMI India, etc. Despite being so familiar in most of the
other countries in the world, the Odeon label as such only took its bow in
Britain in 1978; it had made a brief appearance in 1953 as a name and a logo on
the BSP-3000-series 7" Parlophone records. It managed four singles over
the course of four years, numbering them in an ODO-100 series, and added a
couple more - ODO-111 and 112 - in the late '80s. . Distributed By EMI
Records. Thanks to Robert Lyons For The Info.
78 |
Midnight Follies
Orchestra |
No Strings |
ODEON |
ODO |
101 |
78 |
Ginger
Rogers |
Isn'T This A Lovely Day |
ODEON |
ODO |
102 |
79 |
Young Love |
Ramaya |
ODEON |
ODO |
103 |
81 |
Balsara & Singing Sitars |
Do-Re-Mi |
ODEON |
ODO |
104 |
88 |
Anita Dobson |
To Know Him Is To Love
Him |
ODEON |
ODO |
111 |
89 |
Ian Meeson And Belinda Gillett |
Who Wants To Live Forever |
ODEON |
ODO |
112 |
90 |
Toto Cutugno |
Insieme: 1992 |
ODEON |
ODO |
113 |