It is also EMI's oldest active label: its contemporary HMV, was always more of a classical music label and ceased issuing popular music recordings in 1967 ( it is now known as EMI Classics ); English Columbia has been replaced by the EMI pop label.

In 1967, while shifting their pop and rock music roster to Columbia, EMI converted HMV solely to a classical music label exclusively.

Late in his career he made several recordings of operas, of which his 1967 set of Puccini's Madama Butterfly for EMI is probably the best known.

On 26 September 1967, Frida won the Swedish national talent competition, " New Faces ", arranged by record company EMI and held at Skansen, Stockholm.

On 11 September 1967, Frida recorded the vocals for " En Ledig Dag ", which was to become her first single for EMI Sweden.

EMI decided to reserve the HMV label for classical repertoire and had transferred HMV's remaining pop acts to Columbia by 1967.

In 1967 Regal Zonophone was revived again as an EMI label, featuring acts signed to music publisher David Platz's independent production group, Straight Ahead, several of which had seen chart action on Decca's Deram label.

EMI producer Norman Smith expressed interest in working with them and at the end of September 1967, The Pretty Things signed to EMI's Columbia label.

* Puccini ; Turandot ( Liù ), Molinari-Pradelli, EMI, 1967

EMI revived the Regal Zonophone imprint in 1967 to handle the Essex Music / Straight Ahead producing account that had moved from Deram ( after one Procol Harum single and two singles by The Move ) and continued well into the early 1970s, with successful producers Denny Cordell and Tony Visconti both having production companies releasing records through the label.

With the end of their EMI / Parlophone contract, they signed with Polydor, and Swedish singer Mikael Rickfors formerly of the group Bamboo ( who had supported the Hollies in Sweden in 1967 ) was quickly recruited and sang lead on the single " The Baby " ( UK No. 26, 1972 ) and the album Romany ( which reached No. 84 in the USA ).

In 1967, Wirtz accepted EMI veteran producer / A & R chief Norrie Paramor's offer to join EMI Records as in-house producer.

* I'll Eat My Hat ( 1967 ) EMI / HMV

In 1967 he recorded for EMI a standout performance of Basil Lam's " baroque " version of Handel's " Messiah ", with Elizabeth Harwood ( soprano ), Janet Baker ( mezzo soprano ), Paul Esswood ( counter tenor ), and Raimund Herincx ( bass ), with the English Chamber Orchestra, leader Emanuel Hurwitz, and the Ambrosian Singers and Maurits Sillem, harpsichord continuo, with Sir Charles Mackerras conducting.

McCracken made a number of complete opera recordings, including " Le prophète " ( with Marilyn Horne and Renata Scotto, ( Col / CBS ), c1976 ), " Carmen " ( conducted by Leonard Bernstein, ( DG ), 1972 ), " Fidelio " ( with Birgit Nilsson, ( Decca / London ), 1964 ), " Otello " ( with Dame Gwyneth Jones, ( EMI / Angel ), 1968 ) and " Pagliacci ", on which side 4 of the original LP version was a recital of opera arias, ( Decca / London ), ( 1967 ), as well as Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder ( with Jessye Norman, Tatiana Troyanos and David Arnold, ( Phi ), 1979 ), and a program of Irish and Scottish songs with piano ( EMI / Angel ), 1977.

This shareholding was inherited from the 1967 purchase of the Associated British Picture Corporation by EMI.

From 1967 onwards in Australia his records, tapes and CDs were primarily on the Philips label, but he also recorded on EMI, Mercury, Festival, Dino and Reader's Digest.

Bach: Cantatas BWV 140 & BWV 148, Wolfgang Gönnenwein, Süddeutscher Madrigalchor, Consortium Musicum, Elly Ameling, Theo Altmeyer, Hans Sotin, EMI 1967

* La Chanson de Lara ( EMI, 1967 )

In 1967 Emmerson Hall was converted to classrooms and offices for the School of Education.

In March 1967 Orton and Halliwell had intended another extended holiday in Libya, but they returned home after one day because the only hotel accommodation they could find was a boat that had been converted into a hotel / nightclub.

The converted 830-seat Snape Maltings Concert Hall was opened by HM The Queen on the opening of the twentieth Aldeburgh Festival on 2 June 1967 and was immediately hailed as one of the best concert halls in the country.

Most episodes of The Sandie Shaw Supplement ( a music-variety show hosted by the singer ) recorded in 1967 were promptly wiped after Sandie Shaw asked for the original films to be converted to video cassette.

These were later supplemented by a number of cars of 1972 Mark I Tube Stock converted to be compatible with the 1967 stock.

This was followed by Line 1 Château de Vincennes-Pont de Neuilly in 1964, and Line 4 Porte d ' Orléans-Porte de Clignancourt in 1967, converted because they had the heaviest traffic load of all Paris Métro lines.

It began as a juvenile facility in 1967 and was converted to an adult women ’ s institution in 1979.

Once an elected position that began around 1967 it was converted to an appointed position in 1983.

In 1967 Emmerson Hall was converted to classrooms and offices for the School of Education.

She converted to Judaism, and they were married on 15 June 1967 at the Western Wall.

In 1967 a fire station was opened in Great Baddow to replace the former station which occupied a converted hut in Brewery Fields, Galleywood, once part of the Galleywood race course complex.

In 1967, Davao Province was divided into three ( 3 ) provinces, one of them is Davao del Sur ; the town of Digos was made its capital town and will be converted into city for the next 33 years.

The RMS Queen Mary was preserved as a hotel and museum in Long Beach, California, after being extensively gutted and converted after her retirement in 1967.

: In 1967 – 1968 a Chipmunk Mk 22A was converted, tested and flown by Hants and Sussex Aviation.

Following its move to Garthdee in 1967, it was converted to administrative use.

All gas equipment in Great Britain ( but not Northern Ireland ) was converted ( by the fitting of different-sized burner jets to give the correct gas / air mixture ) from burning town gas to burn natural gas ( mainly methane ) over the period from 1967 to 1977 at a cost of about £ 100 million including the writing off of redundant town gas manufacturing plants.

The 101st Airborne Division “ main body ,” while still at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, converted its divisional Recondo School into a provisional LRRP unit in the summer of 1967, before the division deployed to Vietnam.

Frisbee converted to Christianity, and joined the first street Christian community, The Living Room, a storefront coffeehouse commune of four couples in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco started in 1967.

The National Trust took over the building in 1967 and their Tea Tree Gully branch restored it and converted it to a folk museum.

In 1967 it was sold by British entrepreneur Jock Young's wife ( CEO of " Unity Heating ")-Catherine Ann Young, to Southampton University and converted into a hall of residence.

Password was most often taped in New York at CBS-TV Studio 52 ( later converted to the Studio 54 discothèque ) and CBS-TV Studio 50 ( the Ed Sullivan Theater ) until the end of the daytime run in 1967.

The mill ceased operation in 1964 and was converted into a restaurant in 1967.

The Altona branch was converted to Automatic Block Signalling in October 1967.