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Philips and reissued
Philips has reissued these performances on compact disc with the original Mercury label and liner notes.
When Vee-Jay was declared bankrupt in 1966, The 4 Seasons ' Vee-Jay catalog reverted to the band and the tracks were reissued by Philips.
The album was originally issued in 1959 by Everest Records on LP SDBR 3029, and was reissued on CD in 1996 by Everest as EVC-9041, as well as at some point by Philips Records.
Also known as A L ' Olympia ( Philips 6416 403 ), the album was reissued on 23 September 2003 under the title Enregistrement Public à l ' Olympia 1961 as part of the 16-CD box set Boîte à Bonbons by Barclay ( 980 816-8 ).
The Richter Liszt album was recorded on 3-track 35mm magnetic film and was reissued on CD from a remaster made from the film by original producer Wilma Cozart Fine as part of the Philips Solo series.
Many of the Philips classical recordings have been reissued on the Eloquence label.

Philips and group
In 1974, an initiative was taken by L. Ottens, a director of the audio industry group within the Philips Corporation in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
In March 1974, during a meeting of the audio group, two engineers from the Philips research laboratory recommended the use of a digital format on the 20 cm optical disc, because an error-correcting code could be added.
The task force consisted of around four to eight persons, though according to Philips, the Compact Disc was " invented collectively by a large group of people working as a team.
* Color Kinetics, a former lighting company, now part of the Philips group of companies
The defense group, centered around Fort Wayne, IN, remained independent under the Magnavox Electronic Systems name, first under Philips and later in the Carlyle Group, until it was acquired by Hughes Electronics in 1995.
A local promoter, Roger Allen spotted the group in 1969 and alerted the head of A & R at Philips Records, Jack Baverstock.
The group spent a week in the Philips studio at Stanhope Place recording an album, after which Baverstock offered to sign the group to Fontana Records if they changed their name and obtained London-based management.
In the seventies, the label became part of the PolyGram label group, at this point incorporating the Mercury / EmArcy jazz catalog, which Philips, part owners of PolyGram, had earlier acquired.
From 1990-1995, he directed the * FunHouse * production group for Philips Media, and from 1996-2001, he consulted with Mattel, Warner Bros. and Disney for online puzzles and treasure hunts.
However, noting the positive crowd response and energetic atmosphere, Philips stated that the group " would try to make it an annual stop ” in the future.
The Paris-based Swingle Singers recorded regularly for Philips in the 1960s and early 1970s and the successor group continued to record, after the move to London, for Columbia / CBS, Virgin Classics and other record labels from 1974 to the present.
By 1990 the group had expanded to 21 members: in addition to the original five, Philips and Nokia from Europe ; AT & T, Digital, Unisys, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, NCR, Sun Microsystems, Prime Computer, Apollo Computer from North America ; Fujitsu, Hitachi, and NEC from Japan ; plus the Open Software Foundation and Unix International.
In the beginning, the group consisted of the public broadcasting corporations of Germany ( ARD and ZDF ), Austria ( ORF ), Switzerland ( SRG ) and the United Kingdom ( BBC and UKIB, United Kingdom Independent Broadcasters ) together with the consumer electronics manufacturers Grundig, Nokia, Philips and Thomson.
Polydor – Part of the Polygram group that includes London ( U. S. label for British Decca ), Deutsche Grammophon and Philips.
British group Black Sabbath were signed to Philips Records ' progressive subsidiary Vertigo, which Warner Bros. Records distributed in the USA ; Deep Purple were originally signed in the USA to the independent Tetragrammaton Records, which was distributed by Warner Bros., who acquired the label after it folded in 1970.
He moved to Philadelphia in 1913 and played in John Philips Sousa's band, forming his own group, Harry Kandel's Famous Inlet Orchestra, in 1916.
It had been in development by Philips ' audio business group in Sunnyvale ( CA, USA ) since May 2000.
The " Blu-ray Disc founder group " was started on May 20, 2002 by MIT and nine leading electronic companies: Sony, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Thomson, LG Electronics, Hitachi, Sharp, and Samsung.
Subsequently he applied for a better job, and managed to find one as a clerk in the municipality of Eindhoven, also in the South of The Netherlands at that time a booming city as a result of the establishment of the Philips group.
The group consists of Agere Systems ( now merged with LSI Corporation ), Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Microsoft, NEC Corporation, Philips and Samsung.
In 1985, Immink joined Philips ’ magnetic recording group, where he contributed to the design of coding technologies of the digital video tape recorder, DV and the Digital Compact Cassette ( DCC )
Product Manager of the Philips High Fidelity group, Piet Gouw, was responsible for the launch of most of the Motional Feedback loudspeakers and other High Fidelity equipment.
( Philips had yet to acquire the Mercury group as its US division ).

Philips and Mercury
The Mercury Record Company, a U. S. affiliate of Philips, introduced M. C.
In January 1964, after several successful albums and lack of money from Vee-Jay, The 4 Seasons left Vee-Jay Records and moved to Philips Records, then a division of Mercury Records.
A year later, Philips ' U. S. affiliate Consolidated Electronics Industries Corp. ( a. k. a. Conelco ), bought Mercury and its subsidiary labels.
In 1963, Mercury switched British distribution from EMI to Philips.
In 1962, Mercury began marketing a line of phonographs made by Philips bearing the Mercury brand name.
In 1969, Mercury changed its corporate name to Mercury Record Productions Inc. while its former parent Conelco became North American Philips Corp ( N. A. P. C.
Fontana's U. S. counterpart label was started in 1964 and distributed by Philips US subsidiary Mercury Records.
One of the more interesting signings was four brothers from Newport, Rhode Island, ages 9, 11, 15 and 16, called The Cowsills, before signing with Mercury / Philips with Shelby Singleton, before MGM and their first million selling hit single, " The Rain, The Park & Other Things ".
Ironically, PPI's parent company Philips, through its U. S. affiliate Consolidated Electronics Industries Corp ( a. k. a. Conelco ), acquired Mercury in 1962.
GPG needed to move into the US and UK markets, and did so by a process of both formation and acquisition: Polydor Records established its American operations in 1969, Mercury Record Productions ( US ) was acquired in 1972 from sister company North American Philips Corp., RSO ( UK ) in 1967, MGM Records and Verve ( US ) in 1972, Casablanca ( US ) in 1977, Pickwick in 1978, and Decca ( UK ) in 1980 ( the latter acquisition basically brought PolyGram full circle, see the HDD section above ).
Philips ' acquisition of Mercury Records in the US in 1961 paved the way for this.
They recorded on Capitol's new subsidiary Tower, and Philips ' Mercury label.
He made several recordings for RCA Victor and Mercury Records, and occupies two volumes of the Philips Great Pianists series.
In 1986, 24 Sousa marches performed by the Eastman Wind Ensemble were released as a compact disc by Philips Records, which now owned the Mercury catalog.
In 1961, after Philips lost its North American distribution deal with Columbia Records, it entered an exchange agreement with Mercury Records.
A year later, Philips ' U. S. affiliate Consolidated Electronics Industries Corp. ( a. k. a. Conelco ), bought Mercury and its subsidiary labels.
Philips classical, jazz and pop records were marketed by Mercury in the U. S. under the Philips label.
The Mercury Living Presence team also made classical recordings for Philips, in July 1961.
From 1961 until the late 1960s, Philips Records ( USA ) issued many classical titles in U. S .- specific packaging, initially in the same glossy-laminated covers as Mercury Records.
In 1972, Philips, Fontana, Mercury Records, and the newly-formed Vertigo Records were amalgamated into a new company called Phonogram Records.

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