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Dunhill Records Parent company ABC Records Founded 1964 Founder Lou Adler, Al Bennett, Pierre Cossette and Bobby Roberts[disambiguation needed ]
Distributor(s) ABC Records Genre Various Country of origin US Dunhill Records was started by Lou Adler, Al Bennett, Pierre Cossette and Bobby Roberts[disambiguation needed
] in 1964 as Dunhill Productions, originally for the purpose of releasing Johnny Rivers recordings on Imperial Records. It became a record label in 1965 and was distributed by ABC Records. The first Dunhill single released (catalog #D-4001) was "My Prayer/Pretty Please" by Shelley Fabares, who was Adler's wife at the time. Adler sold his shares to ABC Records in the summer of 1967, this created ABC Dunhill Records. Afterwards Adler launched Ode Records. ABC continued to release records on the Dunhill label until 1975, after which all remaining artists were absorbed into the ABC Records roster before MCA Records bought ABC Records in 1979.
An offshoot of the ABC/Dunhill days was the label Buluu Dunhill Records using (catalog #B-73001).
The Dunhill catalogue is today managed by Geffen Records.
A later independent reissue label called Dunhill Compact Classics was formed in 1986 to reissue recordings on the new compact disc format. British American Tobacco, a UK tobacco company, sued the company because of the use of the Dunhill name, forcing the company to rename itself DCC Compact Classics.
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Dunhill label variations
- 1965-1968 -- Black label with DUNHILL in white outline letters inside yellow frame
- 1968 -- Same as above, but with the "abc" logo added in front of the DUNHILL logo
- 1968-1969 -- Black label with 3-compartment multi-color box consisting of smaller DUNHILL logo (now in white letters inside white frame) in the left hand box and the white circular "abc" logo and "RECORDS" in the right hand boxes
- 1969-1973 -- Same as above, but with the multicolor "DUNHILL" and "abc RECORDS" boxes separated
- 1973-1974 -- Black label with DUNHILL spelled out in children's blocks (followed by a block with the "abc" logo) in white box (This variation only lasted a few months before the label was changed back to the multi-color box logo in which both the "one box" and "two box" variations were used)
- 1974-1975 -- Yellow, orange, red and purple label with "abc Dunhill" ("abc" circle logo in black) in between two black lines
- White labels were used for most promotional issues.
Dunhill (ABC/Dunhill) Records artists
- Steve Allen
- Andwella
- Barry McGuire
- Attlee
- Bangor Flying Circus
- Birtha
- Hal Blaine
- Bobby "Blue" Bland
- Brass Ring
- Jimmy Buffett
- The Bully Boys Band
- Solomon Burke
- Bush
- Eddie Cano and His Quintet
- Carmen
- Cashman & West
- Colosseum
- Danny Cox
- Denny Doherty
- Shelley Fabares
- Mickie Finn
- Four Tops
- Ernie Freeman
- Fresh Start
- Giorgio
- Gladstone
- Grapefruit
- The Grass Roots
- Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
- The Happy Day Choir
- Richard Harris
- Roy Head
- Headstone
- The Hello People
- Thelma Houston
- Jamme
- John Kay
- Thomas Jefferson Kaye
- Andy Kim
- B. B. King & Bobby Bland
- The Artie Kornfeld Tree
- Kracker
- Dennis Lambert
- The Lamp of Childhood
- Richard Landis
- Magna Carta
- The Mamas & the Papas
- Cass Elliot
- Kenneth Mars
- Gayle McCormick
- Barry McGuire
- Mighty Clouds of Joy
- Daniel Moore
- Murphy's Law
- Lady Nelson and the Lords
- Noah
- Michael Omartian
- Pacific Gas & Electric
- Freda Payne
- John Phillips
- Pratt & McClain
- Jim Price
- Pure Love & Pleasure
- Genya Ravan
- Rejoice!
- Rincon Surfside Band
- Emitt Rhodes
- The Road Home
- The Rock & Roll Revival
- William St. James
- Shango
- Del Shannon
- P. F. Sloan
- Smith
- Sonoma
- Dusty Springfield
- The Stapleton-Morley Expression
- Steppenwolf
- Alex Taylor
- Three Dog Night
- Three's a Crowd
- The Trousdale Strings and the Dawn Chorale
- Van der Graaf Generator
- The John Verity Band
- Bengt Arne Wallin
- Joe Walsh
- Bobby Whitlock
- Wings
- Charles Wright
See also
External links
Categories:- American record labels
- Record labels established in 1964
- Record labels disestablished in 1975
- Pop record labels
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