* Paramount also has TV / digital rights to Dead Man Walking, originally from PolyGram Filmed Entertainment ; MGM owns other ancillary rights.

As part of its contract PolyGram also created the Stardog Records imprint exclusively for the band.

It is now part of Universal Music Group ( UMG ) since its acquisition and absorption of PolyGram in 1999, and it is also UMG's oldest active label.

ABC, PolyGram, Republic Pictures, and the then-new Savoy Pictures also attempted to buy Orion, but no deal materialized.

Coincidentally, Scorpions were also signed to PolyGram, though only in America.

Under PolyGram, Mercury absorbed the artists and catalogue of Casablanca Records ( also home to the 20th Century Records back catalogue ), which consisted of heavy metalers Kiss and disco stars Donna Summer and Village People, and primarily became a rock / pop label with Kiss, Scorpions, Rush, John Cougar Mellencamp, Kurtis Blow, Tears for Fears, Bon Jovi, Cinderella, Treat, Candy, and Def Leppard.

In the early 2000s, shortly after the merger of the PolyGram and MCA label families, Rounder signed a manufacturing and distribution deal with Universal Music, which also purchased an interest in the label.

The first four of City Boy's albums were labelled and distributed by Vertigo Records, also known as PolyGram and Polydor.

An audio cassette tape entitled " An Earful of Zit " was also released in 1993 and was marketed and distributed by PolyGram Record Operations Ltd.

In his audio commentary for the Times Square DVD, Alan Moyle mentions that David Bowie was commissioned to provide a song for the movie's soundtrack, but Bowie's label at that time wouldn't let the filmmakers use it ( at the time, Bowie was still under contract with RCA Victor Records, and the Times Square album was issued by RSO Records, at the time distributed by RCA Victor competitor PolyGram ; however, it's also notable that Lou Reed, who does appear on the album, was also under contract to RCA Victor ).

Following 1993's The Donna Summer Anthology and 1994's Endless Summer: Greatest Hits, both released by PolyGram, " I Feel Love " was re-released on the PolyGram sublabel Manifesto in a newly remixed form as a single in 1995, including mixes by Masters At Work and Rollo Armstrong and Sister Bliss of UK remixer / producer team Faithless-and also new vocals by Summer herself.

As well as with EMI & Capitol Records, PolyGram and other labels also offered cassette releases duplicated with the XDR process.

PolyGram maintained the De-Lite Records label for releases by Kool & the Gang, who experienced a second wave of success after the addition of new lead singer J. T.

PolyGram and Working Title Films, who had funded Fargo, backed The Big Lebowski with a budget of $ 15 million.

Edwards was extremely complimentary of Waits ' contributions, saying: Tom Waits is the one who got me my contract with PolyGram.

Contemporary signings, such as Slaughter & The Dogs and the pre-stardom Adam and the Ants ( whose sole single with Decca, Young Parisians, would later be a UK Top 10 hit on the back of the band's success at CBS ), were second division when compared to the likes of PolyGram, CBS, EMI, and newcomer Virgin's rosters of hitmakers.

In 1991, Motown sued MCA to have its distribution deal with the company terminated, and began releasing its product through PolyGram.

Ironically, Seagram had purchased Motown ’ s former parent MCA in 1995, as such Motown was in effect reunited with many of its MCA corporate siblings ( Seagram had, in fact, hoped to build a media empire around Universal, and started by purchasing PolyGram ).

Warner Bros. subsequently agreed to distribute the film, with further financing from PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Working Title Films.

Once Newman and Robbins signed on, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Working Title Films agreed to co-finance the film with Warner Bros. and Silver Pictures.

In 1998, Seagram acquired PolyGram from Philips and merged it with its music holdings.

In 1998 Seagram acquired PolyGram ( owner of British Decca ) from Philips and merged it with its music holdings.

After obtaining a record deal with PolyGram in 1985, the band scored their first hit two years later with their debut single " Wishing I Was Lucky ", which reached number six in the UK singles chart in 1987.

In 1972, Polydor merged with giant Philips-owned Phonogram Records to create PolyGram in the US.

In 1962 Siemens formed a joint venture with Netherlands-based Philips to create the DGG / PPI Record Group, which became PolyGram Records in 1972.

The present organization was formed when its parent company Seagram purchased PolyGram and merged it with Universal Music Group in 1998.

He moved to Miami in 1981, and signed with PolyGram, where he released Morning Ride in 1989.

Starting in 1995 with Sony Music's Columbia Records label, these double disc collections moved to the special marketing arm of PolyGram / Universal Music Group TV, before becoming a sister brand of the Now That's What I Call Music!

Doolittle was the Pixies ' first international release, with Elektra Records acting as the album's distributor in the United States and PolyGram in Canada.

On his return from that tour, Hadley signed a joint deal with PolyGram TV, and released his next eponymous solo album, Tony Hadley, in 1997, which included covers and songs that were chosen to match his voice.

In 1986 they released their second and last album on 4AD, Medusa, before signing with PolyGram.

In 1972, Philips along with German Electronics giant Siemens merged their record operations with Deutsche Grammophon to become PolyGram.

In 1981, Mercury, along with other U. S. PolyGram-owned labels, which included Polydor, RSO, and Casablanca, consolidated under the new name PolyGram Records Inc. Around this time, Mercury moved its headquarters to New York City.

In 1997, PolyGram, looking to cut costs in anticipation of a merger with a competitor, consolidated all of its Nashville operations under the Mercury name.

Launched in 1993 as a division of Nippon PolyGram ( now Universal Music Japan ), it was later relaunched in 2000 as a joint venture with Kitty Films under the name Kitty MME.

When Casablanca's lavish spending habits were realized by PolyGram, it quickly made an offer to purchase the other 50 % of Casablanca in 1980.

Geffen's first artist to sign on was Donna Summer, who was anxious to leave Casablanca / PolyGram Records.

A version which fades out at 3: 45, before the third verse and final choruses, has been included on a large number of greatest hits packages and other compilations issued by PolyGram, Mercury Records, Universal Music and others, such as 1994's Endless Summer: Greatest Hits and 2003's The Journey: The Very Best of Donna Summer.

The single became a UK # 8 hit, the second time the song had entered the Top 10, and the ' 95 Radio Edit was later included as a bonus track on PolyGram France's version of the Endless Summer compilation.

PolyGram subsequently trimmed most of Polydor's staff and roster, and shifted it to operate under the umbrella of PolyGram Label Group ( PLG ), a newly constructed ' super label ' specifically designed to oversee the operations of PolyGram's lesser performing imprints ( which included Island Records, London Records, Atlas Records and Verve Records ) at the time.

The label was distributed by Warner Bros. Records since its inception, but in 1990, the label was sold to MCA and today is part of the Interscope-Geffen-A & M division of MCA's successor, Universal Music Group, formed as the result of the 1999 merger between the MCA and PolyGram families of labels.

After PolyGram took over British Decca, classical-music albums recorded by British Decca continued to be released on the London label in the U. S., with a logo similar to the Decca classical label logo, until American Decca owner MCA Records bought British Decca owner PolyGram in 1998, which formed Universal Music, after which they were all reissued on the original British Decca label in the U. S.

Universal Music Group ( the owner of American Decca ) was formed through the merger of the MCA and PolyGram Records families, the latter of which owned London Records, in 2000 and closed Slash as an active label.

The Island Def Jam Music Group was formed in 1999 when Universal Music Group merged two of its daughter companies, Island Records and Def Jam Recordings, as a result of the merger between Universal Music and PolyGram labels.

After Bogart was forced out following the takeover of Casablanca by PolyGram in 1979, Guber formed PolyGram's motion picture and television division where he was Chairman of the Board and CEO.

He sold his interest in PolyGram in 1983 and formed and served as co-owner of the Guber-Peters Company ( GPC ) along with producer Jon Peters.

In 1996, Tefkin signed a songwriting and development deal with PolyGram Publishing and formed pop band Lucie Gamelon, singing and playing bass-Lucie Gamelon played the L. A. music scene for several years, as well as major dates on the 1998 Lilith Fair tour and released a 6 song EP: Everything Is Nice.

Many record companies died out as quickly as they had formed, and by the end of the 1980s, the " Big 6 " — EMI, CBS, BMG, PolyGram, WEA and MCA — dominated the industry.

A legal dispute with A & M / PolyGram Records and the then-forthcoming merger between the MCA and PolyGram families of labels that formed the Universal Music Group forced its debut album, The Antidote, to remain in its vaults, although the single “ One More to Go ” ( featuring Inspectah Deck, Method Man, Cappadonna, Street Life, and GZA ) b / w “ Bomb Threat ,” was released and the album was later leaked.