Mercury Records (or just “Mercury”. A UMG imprint, do not use it for ©/℗ credits)

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Annotation

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History

2007 - Mercury Records re-launched in US as Division of Island Def Jam Music Group
1960 - Philips (PolyGram) acquires Mercury Records.

note: Mercury Records UK revived the use of the Mercury icon in its imprint that had formerly been in use since the label's inception until the mid-1990s.

Annotation last modified on 2020-02-19 12:25 UTC.

Releases

Release	Artist	Format	Tracks	Country/Date	Catalog#	Barcode
Norman Granz' Jazz At The Philharmonic Vol.5	Norman Granz' Jazz At The Philharmonic	3×10" Shellac	2 + 2 + 2	US1946	11030, 11031, 11032
That's My Desire / By the River Sainte Marie	Frankie Laine and Mannie Klein's All Stars	10" Shellac	2	US1946	5007	[none]
The Spider and the Fly / Still Blue Water	Myra Taylor and Jimmy Keith’s Orchestra	10" Shellac	2	US1946	8025	[none]
Take It Easy Greasy / Tell Your Best Friend Nothin’	Myra Taylor and Jimmy Keith’s Orchestra	10" Shellac	2	US1946	8027	[none]
Piano	Errol Garner	3×10" Shellac	2 + 2 + 2	US1946	A-24
Piano Solos	Errol Garner	3×10" Vinyl	2 + 2 + 2	US1946	MER A10
Old Maid Boogie / Kidney Stew Blues	Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson	Vinyl	2	US1947-01	8028
Feudin' and Fightin' / Take it Back and Change it for a Boy	Rex Allen	10" Vinyl	2	US1947-06	6049
Fool That I Am / Mean and Evil Blues	Dinah Washington	Vinyl	2	US1947-08	8050
Miranda Doaks / Chime Bells	Rex Allen	10" Vinyl	2	US1947-12-07	6122
Goodluck Polka / Foundling Waltz	Romy Gosz and His Orchestra	10" Shellac	2	US1947	1035	[none]
Muziky Muziky Polka / Happy Nights	Romy Gosz and His Orchestra	10" Shellac	2	US1947	1037	[none]
Shine / We'll Be Together Again	Frankie Laine	Vinyl	2	US1947	5091
Move Out / Quit Barking in My Rhubarb	Myra Taylor and The Reiser-Meyers Trio	10" Vinyl	2	US1947	8068	[none]
Young Man's Blues / Jungle Boogie	The Bobby True Trio	10" Vinyl	2	US1948	5169	[none]
Clinging Vine / It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie	Myra Taylor and Reiser-Meyers Trio	10" Vinyl	2	US1948	8081
Riders in the Sky / I Wish I Could Call You My Sweetheart	Stan Jones and his Death Valley Rangers	10" Shellac	2	US1949-05	5320	[none]
Blues in my Mind / Little Brown Shoes	Rex Allen	10" Vinyl	2	US1949-07	6221
Summertime / I Didn't Know What Time It Was	Charlie Parker	Vinyl	2	US1949-11-30	11038
Charlie Parker with Strings	Charlie Parker with Jimmy Carroll and His Orchestra	Vinyl	6	US1949-11-30		[none]
No Noise	Flip Phillips / Charlie Parker With Machito and His Orchestra	10" Shellac	2	US1949	11012
Mango Mangue / Okiedoke	Charlie Parker, Machito and His Orchestra	10" Shellac	2	US1949	11017
You’re Breaking My Heart / Four Winds and Seven Seas	Vic Damone	10" Vinyl	2	US1949	5271	[none]
Barroom Polka / Merry Go Round Waltz	Lawrence Welk and His Champagne Music	10" Shellac	2	US1949	5294	[none]
Lora‐Belle Lee / Hollywood Square Dance	Lawrence Welk and His Champagne Music	10" Shellac	2	US1949	5295	[none]
Dime a Dozen / Have a Heart	Lawrence Welk and His Champagne Music	10" Vinyl	2	US1949	5312	[none]
That Lucky Old Sun	Frankie Laine	10" Vinyl	2	US1949	5316
Katrina / Ichabod Crane	Lawrence Welk and His Champagne Music	10" Vinyl	2	US1949	5317	[none]
Kit Kat Polka / Merry Xmas Polka	Lawrence Welk and His Champagne Music	10" Vinyl	2	US1949	5335	[none]
Tennessee Tears / Song of the Hills	Rex Allen	10" Vinyl	2	US1949	6171
Honeymoon Waltz / A Tear for Your Heart	Red Kirk	10" Vinyl	2	-1949	6204
This Can't Be Love / Cookie	Flip Phillips and His Orchestra	10" Shellac	2	US1949	8908	[none]
Selected Song Favorites	Eddy Howard & His Orchestra	10" Vinyl	8	US1949	MG 25011
Boogie Woogie Piano	Albert Ammons	10" Vinyl	8	US1949	MG 25012
Broken Down Merry-Go-Round / Tag Along	Patti Page & Rex Allen	10" Vinyl	2	US1950-01	6231-X45	[none]
I Stay Blue All the Time / You've Been Mistreating Me	Big Bill Broonzy	Vinyl	2	US1950-02	8160
Foggy Mountain Breakdown	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	10" Vinyl	2	US1950-03-15	6247	[none]
No Mother or Dad / Foggy Mountain Breakdown	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys	Vinyl	2	US1950-03-15	6247
Farther Along / Softly and Tenderly	Patti Page & Rex Allen	10" Shellac	2	US1950-04	6258-X45	[none]
Bald Head / Hey Now, Baby	Roy Byrd and His Blues Jumpers	Vinyl	2	US1950-04	8175
My Little Girl in Tennessee / I'll Never Love Another	The Foggy Mountain Boys	7" Vinyl	2	US1950-10-15	6287X45	[none]
Black Lace / The Cry of the Wild Goose	Frankie Laine	10" Vinyl	2	US1950	5363
You Are My One True Love / Chopstick Polka	Lawrence Welk and His Champagne Music	10" Shellac	2	US1950	5377	[none]
If You Can’t Get a Drum With a Boom, Boom, Boom (Get a Tuba with an Oom‐Pah‐Pah) / Hoop Dee Doo	Lawrence Welk and His Champagne Music	7" Vinyl	2	US1950	5419-X45	[none]
Windy River / Dakota Polka	Lawrence Welk and His Champagne Music	10" Vinyl	2	US1950	5434	[none]
The Petite Waltz / I’m in the Middle of a Riddle	Lawrence Welk & His Champagne Music	10" Vinyl	2	US1950	5487	[none]
Laughing Polka / Julida Polka	Lawrence Welk and His Champagne Music	7" Vinyl	2	US1950	5519-X45	[none]
Military Polka / Tiger Rag	Lawrence Welk & His Champagne Music	10" Shellac	2	US1950	5529	[none]
Boogie Woogie Santa Claus / The Tennessee Waltz	Patti Page	10" Vinyl	2	US1950	5534
End of Desire / California	The Nature Boy Orchestra, Bobby Please & eden ahbez	10" Shellac	2	US1950	5554
Rock Around the Clock / Fine as Wine	Hal Singer	Vinyl	2	US1950	8196
Charlie Parker with Strings	Charlie Parker	10" Vinyl	6	US1950	MC-C-101, MG 35010
Frankie Laine Sings for Us: Songs for People Together	Frankie Laine	12" Vinyl	12	US1950	MG 20083	[none]
Count Basie	Count Basie And The Kansas City Seven / Lester Young E Seu Quarteto	10" Vinyl	7	US1950	MG 25015
Songs	Patti Page	10" Vinyl	8	-1950	MG-25059
Jazz Journey	Chubby Jackson & Bill Harris All-Stars	10" Vinyl	8	US1950	mg 25076, MG 25076
Piano Solos	Bud Powell	10" Vinyl	6	US1950	MG 35012
Bud Powell's Moods	Bud Powell	Vinyl	10	US1950	MG C-610
Tag-A-Long / Soft and Tenderly	Patti Page & Rex Allen	7" Vinyl	2	US1951-02	5592-X45	[none]
Au Privave / Star Eyes	Charlie Parker And His Orchestra	10" Shellac	2	US1951	11087
The Old Organ Grinder / You're Everybody's Sweetheart	Al Trace	10" Vinyl	2	US1951	5652	[none]
Sweet Violets / Them There Eyes	Doris Drew	10" Shellac	2	CA1951	5673
Where's a Your House / I Wish I Wuz	Doris Drew	10" Vinyl	2	US1951	5701
Free Forms By Ralph Burns	Ralph Burns	3×10" Shellac	2 + 2 + 2	US1951	C-115
Christmas with Patti Page	Patti Page	(unknown)	8	US1951	MG 25109
Folk Song Favorites	Patti Page	10" Vinyl	8	-1951	MG-25109
Gone With Garner	Errol Garner	10" Vinyl	8	US1951	MG 25157
Piano Solos	Bud Powell	10" Vinyl	8	US1951	MG C-507
Back Home Blues / Lover Man	Charlie Parker	10" Shellac	2	-1952-03-25	11095
Pike County Breakdown / Old Salty Dog Blues	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys	Vinyl	2	US1952-05	6396
Pike County Breakdown / Old Salty Dog Blues	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys	Vinyl	2	US1952-05	6396X45
Mad About the Boy / I Can’t Face the Music	Dinah Washington	7" Vinyl	2	US1952-06	5842
Release Me / Wedding Bells	Patti Page & Rusty Draper	7" Vinyl	2	US1952-07	5895x45	[none]
Songs at Midnight	Billy Daniels	10" Vinyl	8	AU1952-08	MG 25163
Temptation / Autumn in New York	Charlie Parker	10" Shellac	2	US1952	11088
Lover / Stella by Starlight	Charlie Parker	7" Vinyl	2	US1952	11089-X45
La Cucuracha / My Little Suede Shoes	Charlie Parker	10" Shellac	2	US1952	11093
Night and Day / I Can't Get Started	Charlie Parker	10" Vinyl	2	US1952	11096	[none]
Kiss of Fire / A Lasting Thing	Georgia Gibbs	7" Vinyl	2	US1952	5823-X45
You Belong to Me / You're an Angel on Outside	Sue Thompson	Vinyl	2	US1952	6407
Coronation Hop / Paradise	Gene Krupa Sextet	10" Vinyl	2	US1952	89057
Piano	Erroll Garner	12" Vinyl	12	US1952	MG 20009
Blazing Ballads	Dinah Washington	10" Vinyl	8	US1952	MG 25140
Tennessee Waltz	Patti Page	Vinyl	8	US1952	MG 25154
Collates	Roy Eldridge	Vinyl	8	US1952	MGC-113
The Oscar Peterson Quartet	The Oscar Peterson Quartet	10" Vinyl	2	US1952	MG C-116
Bird and Diz	Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie	10" Vinyl	8	US1952	MG C-512
South of the Border	Charlie Parker	10" Vinyl	8	US1952	MGC-513	[none]
Lover Come Back to Me / Yesterdays	Billie Holiday	10" Vinyl	2	US1953-03	89037	[none]
(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window? / My Jealous Eyes	Patti Page with Orchestra Conducted by Jack Rael	7" Vinyl	2	US1953	70070-X45	[none]
House of Blues / I'll Never Let You Go	Ray Johnson	Vinyl	2	US1953	70203
Changing Partners	Patti Page	7" Vinyl	2	CA1953	70260-X45
Silent Night	Dinah Washington	(unknown)	2	US1953	70263x45
You Never Had It So Good / When Day Is Done	Reta Moss	10" Shellac	2	US1953	89024
Holiday in Piano	Lennie Tristano, Arnold Ross	10" Vinyl	8	AU1953	MG 26029
The Astaire Story	Fred Astaire	4×12" Vinyl	9 + 10 + 10 + 9	US1953	MGC 1001/4	[none]
Plays Irving Berlin	Oscar Peterson	12" Vinyl	12	US1953	MGC-604
Oscar Peterson Plays Duke Ellington	Oscar Peterson	12" Vinyl	12	US1953	MGC-606
Strange Fruit	Josh White	10" Vinyl	8	GB1954-11	MG 25014	[none]
Tweedle Dee / You're Wrong, All Wrong	Georgia Gibbs	7" Vinyl	2	CA1954-12	70517-X45