Stateside Records
| Stateside Records | |
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| Founded | 1962 |
| Founder | Fred Oxon |
| Distributor(s) | Parlophone |
| Genre | Various |
| Country of origin | UK |
| Official website | www |
Stateside ($tateside) Records is a British record label which initially released licensed American recordings and is now a reissue label.
It was formed in 1962 by EMI as a replacement for the Top Rank label (originally the Rank Organisation's label), which had folded. EMI hired former Top Rank label head Fred Oxon to run it and compete with Decca's London "American Recordings", and Pye's "Pye International" labels.
While Top Rank's British acts (such as John Leyton) were assigned to EMI's Columbia and HMV labels, Stateside continued to issue records from its American suppliers, including Amy, Bell, 20th Century Fox, Scepter, Vee-Jay and A&M, and acquired Tamla-Motown-Gordy from Oriole Records.
Its first hit was "Palisades Park" by Freddy Cannon, which was licensed from Swan Records. It was through EMI's relationship with Vee-Jay and Swan that pre-1964 recordings by the Beatles were released by those labels in the USA when EMI's American subsidiary Capitol turned them down.
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