By 1970, Dot had become an all-country label and in 1974, Paramount sold all of its record holdings to ABC Records, which in turn was sold to MCA ( now Universal Music Group ) in 1979.

The entire group was sold to MCA Records in 1979 ; as a result of subsequent takeovers, the remnants of the ABC music group are now owned by Universal Music Group.

In March 1979, ABC was bought by MCA Records, and for most of the next two years they were caught in contractual problems that prevented them from releasing the album.

The series originally consisted of two studio albums ( The Music Band, The Music Band 2, both in 1979 ) and a live album ( The Music Band Live, 1980 ), but after the band left MCA in 1981 and had already made records for other labels, MCA expanded the series with a compilation ( The Best of the Music Band, 1982 ) and a third original album of left-over material ( The Music Band – Jazz, 1983 ).

Petty's recording contract was re-assigned to MCA from his previous label Shelter Records and its distributor ABC Records when ABC was sold to MCA in 1979.

The ABC label was shuttered in 1979, with its artists and catalog transferred to MCA Records, and then Geffen Records.

A second compilation, titled More American Graffiti ( MCA 8007 ) ( and not to be confused with the 1979 film sequel of that name ) was issued by MCA in early 1975, with George Lucas's approval.

A full-length version of the original theme song was released in 1979 on a 45 rpm vinyl single on the MCA Records label.

In addition to the Paramount film, television, home video, and music publishing divisions, the company continued to own the Madison Square Garden properties ( which also included MSG Network ), a 50 % stake in USA Networks ( the other 50 % was owned by MCA / Universal Studios, which incidentally became the owner of the Famous Music Group catalog when it bought ABC Records in 1979 and a majority of the pre-1950 Paramount sound feature film library when it bought it in 1958 ) and Simon and Schuster ( which itself acquired Prentice Hall a few years before, and later Gousha ).

ABC Records was sold to MCA Records in 1979.

Through the efforts of Infinity Records, a New York City based start-up label owned by MCA Records, the group appeared in most major cities in the United States and many jazz festivals in Europe in 1979.

Hiatt was picked up by the MCA label in 1979.

* Slug Line, MCA Records ( 1979 )

The album was reissued by MCA Records after ABC Records was acquired by MCA in 1979.

The album was re-issued by MCA Records in 1979 following the sale of the ABC Records label to MCA.

Signing with major label MCA Records, by manager Lou Mongoniello, Axe released their self-titled debut in 1979 and immediately gained attention with a melodic Rock sound comprising heavy guitars mixed with keyboards.

In 1979, Lobo was signed to MCA Records, where he worked with producer Bob Montgomery releasing the single " Where Were You When I Was Falling In Love ", which reached # 23.

* 1979 Lobo ( MCA )

jazz label in 1961 and subsequently acquired a number of other labels before the entire division was sold to MCA Records in 1979.

* 1979: A concert with Jean Michel Jarre on the Place de la Concorde in Paris attracted one million people, securing an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest crowd at an outdoor concert.

The band has released two live albums of archival performances on Manifesto Records: Mutiny on the Bay, compiled from various live shows including a recording from their last show with Biafra in 1986, and Live at the Deaf Club, a recording of a 1979 performance at the Deaf Club in San Francisco which was greeted with more enthusiasm.

Also in 1979 Rhino Records released Devotees, a tribute album, containing a set of covers of the band's songs interspersed with renditions of popular songs in Devo's style.

* ( GI ) LP, 1979, Slash Records

* Germs Rock ' N ' Rule — Recorded Live At The Masque Christmas Party — Whisky A-Go-Go, December 1979, Hollywood, 1986, Xes Records

* Tooth and Nail, 1979, Upsetter Records

After moving to London, Vangelis signed with RCA Records, set up his own studio, Nemo Studios, and began recording a string of electronic albums, such as Heaven and Hell ( 1975 ), Albedo 0. 39 ( 1976 ), Spiral ( 1977 ), Beaubourg ( 1978 ), and China ( 1979 ).

In 1979, ZZ Top signed with Warner Bros. Records and released the album Degüello.

After Gulf Winds ( 1976 ), an album of entirely self-composed songs, and From Every Stage ( 1976 ), a live album that had Baez performing songs " from every stage " of her career, Baez again parted ways with a record label when she moved to CBS Records for Blowin ' Away ( 1977 ) and Honest Lullaby ( 1979 ).

The band recorded five songs ; one of the tracks from the session, " Bela Lugosi's Dead ", running more than nine minutes, was released as the group's debut single in August 1979 on Small Wonder Records as Bauhaus ( the 1919 abandoned ).

After six years White left 20th Century in 1979 to launch his own label, Unlimited Gold, with CBS / Columbia Records.

Another version of the theme, ' Blake's 7 Disco ', was recorded by Federation and released in 1979 on Beeb Records with a B-side unconnected with the series.

A soundtrack was not commercially available until 1979, when Chalfont Records, with the composer's son George Korngold as producer and an orchestra conducted by Charles Gerhardt, made an early digital recording.

He also recorded Ess's band Y Pants for their debut release on 99 Records and performed with Rhys Chatham's Guitar Trio in 1977, a noise music experience that was very important in the development of his compositional voice ( Branca 1979 ).

* Musical Destruction ( LP Cassette, Riot / Clone Records 1979 )

In 1979, the band wooed guitarist Chris Hayes and moved to Chrysalis Records.

EMI purchased United Artists Records in 1979, which had absorbed Liberty Records in 1969, and phased out the Blue Note label which lay dormant until 1985, when it was relaunched as part of EMI Manhattan Records, both for re-issues and new recordings.

Despite being advertised as soon available in November 1979, Horrendous Disc was not finally released by Solid Rock until April 10, 1981, ten days before the band's follow-up ¡ Alarma !, was released on Newpax Records.

In 1978, McGuinn joined fellow ex-Byrds Gene Clark and Chris Hillman to form " McGuinn, Clark and Hillman ", and the three together recorded an album with Capitol Records in 1979.

In 1979, Global — then an Ontario regional network — purchased the Toronto Blizzard soccer team and produced and aired coverage of the team's games in-house.

Worldvision was purchased by Taft in 1979 and sold to Aaron Spelling in 1988.

Microsoft purchased a license for Version 7 Unix from AT & T in 1979, and announced on August 25, 1980 that it would make it available for the 16-bit microcomputer market.

In 1979, the Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife purchased and fenced 100 km², in the Coturaundee Ranges, now part of Mutawintji National Park, for the conservation and protection of the Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby.

Lakefield was gazetted in 1979, after the Queensland Government purchased several cattle stations the previous year.

In 1979 Cyprus Mines was purchased by Standard Oil Company of Indiana and it became a subsidiary of Amoco Minerals Company.

Cromford Mill was purchased by The Arkwright Society in 1979 after the site was abandoned by its previous owners, a dyes and paints company.

After a number of small attempts to reuse the abandoned air force base, Airborne Express purchased the facility in 1979 for $ 850, 000, a fraction of the estimated $ 100 million spent to construct it.

State Street is dominated by automobile dealerships, where auto magnate, Larry H. Miller, purchased his first dealership May 1, 1979, as Larry H. Miller Toyota.

* Sandy's, a former fast-food chain purchased by Hardee's in 1979

In 1979, Fairchild Camera and Instrument was purchased by Schlumberger Limited, an oil field services company, for $ 425 million.

Having purchased the property for £ 8, 000 he finally sold it to the Highlands and Islands Development Board in 1979 for £ 135, 000.

He commissioned designer / luthier Tom Lieber to design and build this bass, having purchased one of Lieber's Spider grinder basses in 1979.

In 1979, the company paid $ 1 million for Sphinx, a book by Coma author Robin Cook, and purchased The Wolfen, the story of a group of supernatural wolves advancing on New York City.

*: Used by the French Armed Forces since 1979, with over 700, 000 rifles purchased.

In 1979, Dictaphone was purchased by Pitney Bowes, but was kept as a wholly owned but autonomous subsidiary.

It purchased AstroWorld in Houston, Texas in 1975, Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey in 1977 and Magic Mountain in Valencia, California in 1979 before Penn Central sold its assets to Bally Manufacturing in 1982.

In 1979, Stadium Corp. and Modell were implicated in a lawsuit brought by Browns minority shareholder Robert Gries of Gries Sports Enterprises, who successfully alleged that Stadium Corp. manipulated the Browns ' accounting records to help Stadium Corp. and Modell absorb a loss on real property that had been purchased in the Cleveland suburb of Strongsville as a potential site for a new stadium.

The Courant was purchased in 1979 by Times Mirror, the Los Angeles Times parent company.

In 1979, the group purchased Trotsky's death mask to use as an iconic focus for events.

The United Kingdom retail chain Argos was purchased in 1979.

One of the first important acquisitions was in 1979, when Ted Rogers purchased a controlling interest in Canadian Cablesystems ( CCL ), which operated cable companies across Ontario, including the then City of North York, Oshawa / Whitby, London, Kitchener-Waterloo, Cambridge, Brantford, and Newmarket, and joined the CCL properties with his cable interests.

In 1979, General Mills resurrected the American Flyer brand and product line, which Lionel Corporation had purchased from its bankrupt competitor ( The A. C. Gilbert Company of New Haven, Connecticut ) several months prior to its own bankruptcy in 1967.