History Creator / StatesideRecords

Probably due to UsefulNotes/{{trademark}} and/or UsefulNotes/{{copyright}} reasons, Stateside wound up releasing several UK artists outside the British Isles, due to licensing deals with English labels such as Immediate, Creator/{{Pye|Records}}, and even other EMI imprints like Creator/{{Harvest|Records}} and Regal Zonophone. From Music/TheKinks in India to Music/TheSmallFaces in Singapore, from Music/DeepPurple in Turkey to Music/ProcolHarum in France, Stateside marketed a surprising amount of British music in various countries.

[[http://www.statesiderecords.com/ Stateside Records]], an imprint of Creator/{{EMI}} now owned by Creator/WarnerMusicGroup, is a label with a long, sometimes confusing history. It's best known for the original British release of American hits such as Freddie Cannon's "Palisades Park", Music/HerbAlpert's "The Lonely Bull", and several records by Music/FrankieValliAndTheFourSeasons and various {{Soul}} artists.

* Music/LongJohnBaldry

Stateside became the European licensee for many small-to-middling American labels, including [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios 20th Century Fox]], Scepter, Swan, and Vee Jay, the latter two of which got US rights to early [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] releases thanks to their relationships with EMI (and Creator/{{Capitol|Records}} not realizing the group's potential at first). Stateside even had a deal with Creator/AtcoRecords for a while, despite Atco's parent company Creastor/{{Atlantic|Records}} already being distributed by other British companies outside America. Some other Stateside-associated labels, such as [[Creator/AAndMRecords A&M]], [[Creator/AristaRecords Bell]] and Creator/{{Motown}}, became successful enough to gain their own label identities overseas, which was a problem for the imprint over the years. However, Stateside got a boost in 1967, when HMV was converted to a ClassicalMusic label in the UK; Stateside wound up inheriting the ABC roster, as well as ABC's sublabel Creator/{{Dunhill|Records}} when their deal with Creator/{{RCA|Records}} ended in 1970. Stateside also released Music/TheBeachBoys' first two Creator/{{Reprise|Records}} albums (''Music/{{Sunflower}}'' and ''Music/SurfsUp1971'') in England, as well as a Music/DennisWilson solo single that never made it to America, probably due to the band's international contract with EMI not having expired yet. However, in 1973 a corporate reorganization resulted in EMI shutting down Stateside in England and replacing it with a new label, EMI International.

Stateside became the European licensee for many small-to-middling American labels, including [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios 20th Century Fox]], Scepter, Swan, and Vee Jay, the latter two of which got US rights to early [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] releases thanks to their relationships with EMI (and Creator/{{Capitol|Records}} not realizing the group's potential at first). Some other Stateside-associated labels, such as [[Creator/AAndMRecords A&M]], [[Creator/AristaRecords Bell]] and Creator/{{Motown}}, became successful enough to gain their own label identities overseas, which was a problem for the imprint over the years. However, Stateside got a boost in 1967, when HMV was converted to a ClassicalMusic label in the UK; Stateside wound up inheriting the ABC roster, as well as ABC's sublabel Creator/{{Dunhill|Records}} when their deal with Creator/{{RCA|Records}} ended in 1970. Stateside also released Music/TheBeachBoys' first two Creator/{{Reprise|Records}} albums (''Music/{{Sunflower}}'' and ''Music/SurfsUp1971'') in England, as well as a Music/DennisWilson solo single that never made it to America, probably due to the band's international contract with EMI not having expired yet. However, in 1973 a corporate reorganization resulted in EMI shutting down Stateside in England and replacing it with a new label, EMI International.

It all started relatively simply. In the early 1960s Creator/TheRankOrganisation closed their Top Rank Records subsidiary, which had been distributed by EMI, and "The Greatest Recording Organisation in the World" wanted a replacement. At the same time, EMI execs saw the success that Creator/{{Decca|Records}}'s London imprint and Creator/PyeInternational were having by licensing hits from independent American labels for the European market. EMI's existing labels [[Creator/HisMastersVoiceRecords His Master's Voice]], [[Creator/EMIColumbiaRecords Columbia]] and Creator/{{Parlophone|Records}} had all issued records that originated with small US indies, but EMI had never had a label specializing in that kind of release. Therefore, EMI created the Stateside label in 1962, with former Top Rank head Fred Oxon as its chief executive. (However, HMV and Columbia continued their deals with [[Creator/ABCRecords ABC-Paramount]] and Creator/{{Epic|Records}}, respectively.)

* Music/PaulMcCartney and Music/{{Wings}}

Stateside became the European distributor for many small-to-middling American labels, including [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios 20th Century Fox]], Scepter, Swan, and Vee Jay, the latter two of which got US rights to early [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] releases thanks to their relationships with EMI (and Creator/{{Capitol|Records}} not realizing the group's potential at first). Some other Stateside-associated labels, such as [[Creator/AAndMRecords A&M]], [[Creator/AristaRecords Bell]] and Creator/{{Motown}}, became successful enough to gain their own label identities overseas, which was a problem for the imprint over the years. However, Stateside got a boost in 1967, when HMV was converted to a ClassicalMusic label in the UK; Stateside wound up inheriting the ABC roster, as well as ABC's sublabel Creator/{{Dunhill|Records}} when their deal with Creator/{{RCA|Records}} ended in 1970. Stateside also released Music/TheBeachBoys' first two Creator/{{Reprise|Records}} albums (''Music/{{Sunflower}}'' and ''Music/SurfsUp1971'') in England, as well as a Music/DennisWilson solo single that never made it to America, probably due to the band's international contract with EMI not having expired yet. However, in 1973 a corporate reorganization resulted in EMI shutting down Stateside in England and replacing it with a new label, EMI International.

It all started relatively simply. In the early 1960s Creator/TheRankOrganisation closed their Top Rank Records subsidiary, which had been distributed by EMI, and "The Greatest Recording Organisation in the World" wanted a replacement. At the same time, EMI execs saw the success that Creator/{{Decca|Records}}'s London imprint and Creator/PyeInternational were having by licensing hits from independent American labels for the European market. EMI's existing labels [[Creator/HisMastersVoiceRecords His Master's Voice]], [[Creator/EMIColumbiaRecords Columbia]] and Creator/{{Parlophone|Records}} had all issued records that originated with small US indies, but EMI had never had a label specializing in that kind of release. Therefore, EMI created the Stateside label in 1962, with former Top Rank head Fred Oxon as its chief executive. (However, HMV and Columbia continued their deals with Creator/{{ABC|Records}} and Creator/{{Epic|Records}}, respectively.)

It all started relatively simply. In the early 1960s Creator/TheRankOrganisation closed their Top Rank Records subsidiary, which had been distributed by EMI, and "The Greatest Recording Organisation in the World" wanted a replacement. At the same time, EMI execs saw the success that Creator/{{Decca|Records}}'s London imprint and Creator/PyeInternational were having by licensing hits from independent American labels for the European market. EMI's existing labels [[Creator/HisMastersVoiceRecords His Master's Voice]], [[Creator/EMIColumbiaRecords Columbia]] and (to a lesser extent) Creator/{{Parlophone|Records}} had all issued records that originated with small US indies, but EMI had never had a label specializing in that kind of release. Therefore, EMI created the Stateside label in 1962, with former Top Rank head Fred Oxon as its chief executive. (However, HMV and Columbia continued their deals with Creator/{{ABC|Records}} and Creator/{{Epic|Records}}, respectively.)

Stateside became the European distributor for many small-to-middling American labels, including [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios 20th Century Fox]], Scepter, Swan, and Vee Jay, the latter two of which got US rights to early [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] releases thanks to their relationships with EMI (and Creator/{{Capitol|Records}} not realizing the group's potential at first). Some other Stateside-associated labels, such as [[Creator/AAndMRecords A&M]], [[Creator/AristaRecords Bell]] and Creator/{{Motown}}, became successful enough to gain their own label identities overseas, which was a problem for the imprint over the years. However, Stateside got a boost in 1967, when HMV was converted to a ClassicalMusic label in the UK; Stateside wound up inheriting the ABC roster, as well as ABC's sublabel Creator/{{Dunhill|Records}} when their deal with Creator/{{RCA|Records}} ended in 1970. Stateside also released Music/TheBeachBoys' first two Creator/{{Reprise|Records}} albums in England, as well as a Music/DennisWilson solo single that never made it to America, probably due to the band's international contract with EMI not having expired yet. However, in 1973 a corporate reorganization resulted in EMI shutting down Stateside in England and replacing it with a new label, EMI International.

It all started relatively simply. In the early 1960s Creator/TheRankOrganisation closed their Top Rank Records subsidiary, which had been distributed by EMI, and "The Greatest Recording Organisation in the World" wanted a replacement. At the same time, EMI execs saw the success that Creator/{{Decca|Records}}'s London imprint and Creator/PyeInternational were having by licensing hits from independent American labels for the European market. EMI's existing labels [[Creator/HisMastersVoiceRecords His Master's Voice]], [[Creator/EMIColumbiaRecords Columbia]] and (to a lesser extent) Creator/{{Parlophone|Records}} had all issued records that originated with small US indies, but EMI had never had a label specializing in that kind of release. Therefore, EMI created the Stateside label in 1962, with former Top Rank head Fred Oxon as its chief executive.(However, HMV and Columbia continued their deals with Creator/{{ABC|Records}} and Creator/{{Epic|Records}}, respectively.)

* Music/TheSoftMachine

* [[Music/GladysKnightAndThePips Gladys Knight & The Pips]]

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* [[Music/GeorgeClinton Funkadelic]]

Stateside became the European distributor for many small-to-middling American labels, including [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios 20th Century Fox]], Scepter, Swan, and Vee Jay, the latter two of which got US rights to early [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] releases thanks to their relationships with EMI (and Creator/{{Capitol|Records}} not realizing the group's potential at first). Some other Stateside-associated labels, such as [[Creator/AAndMRecords A&M]], [[Creator/AristaRecords Bell]] and Creator/{{Motown}}, became successful enough to gain their own label identities overseas, which was a problem for the imprint over the years. However, Stateside got a boost in 1967, when HMV was converted to a ClassicalMusic label in the UK; Stateside wound up inheriting the ABC roster, as well as ABC's sublabel Creator/{{Dunhill|Records}} when their deal with Creator/{{RCA|Records}} ended in 1970. However, in 1973 a corporate reorganization resulted in EMI shutting down Stateside in England and replacing it with a new label, EMI International.

[[folder:Stateside performers licensed from ABC/Dunhill]]

However, Stateside is best known for the variety of American {{Blues}} and {{Soul}} music it issued, much of it coming from legends such as Music/RayCharles, Music/JohnLeeHooker and Music/StevieWonder. Stateside became a well-respected label among the Northern Soul subculture, so much so that in TheEighties EMI revived it as an R&B-oriented reissue label. When EMI went under in 2012, the Stateside trademark was one of the assets acquired by Creator/WarnerMusicGroup, which revived the label in 2017 as a Parlophone subsidiary. This latest version of Stateside has reissued blues, soul and {{Jazz}} from the Warner catalogue, often in cooperation with WMG's other reissue label Creator/{{Rhino|Records}}, including artists such as Music/JohnColtrane, Music/ArethaFranklin and Music/NinaSimone.

Probably due to UsefulNotes/{{trademark}} and/or UsefulNotes/{{copyright}} reasons, Stateside wound up releasing several UK artists outside the British Isles, due to licensing deals with English labels such as Immediate, Creator/{{Pye|Records}}, and even other EMI imprints like Creator/{{Harvest|Records}} and Regal Zonophone. From Music/TheKinks in India to Music/TheSmallFaces in Singapore, from Music/DeepPurple in Turkey to Music/ProcolHarum in France, Stateside marketed a surpring amount of British music in various countries.

[[http://www.statesiderecords.com/ Stateside Records]], an imprint of Creator/{{EMI}} now owned by Creator/WarnerMusicGroup, is a label with a long, sometimes confusing history.

And that's the story of the original incarnation of Stateside Records in England. However, EMI used the trademark in pretty much much every nation where it had an operation except the US and Canada, and Stateside continued in many countries after the end of the original British label. This is where things get confusing. You'd assume that since the label was named Stateside, its roster would consist only of American artists, never any Brits. But you've already guessed what comes next, right? Welcome to the wacky world of record collecting!

Stateside became the European distributor for many small American labels, including [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios 20th Century Fox]], Scepter, Swan, and Vee Jay, the latter two of which got US rights to early [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] releases thanks to their relationships with EMI (and Creator/{{Capitol|Records}} not realizing the group's potential at first). Some other Stateside-associated labels, such as ([[Creator/AAndMRecords A&M]], [[Creator/AristaRecords Bell]] and Creator/{{Motown}}, became successful enough to gain their own label identities overseas, which was a problem for the imprint over the years. However, Stateside got a boost in 1967, when HMV was converted to a ClassicalMusic label; Stateside wound up inheriting the ABC roster, as well as ABC's sublabel Creator/{{Dunhill|Records}} when their deal with Creator/{{RCA|Records}} ended in 1970.

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It all started simply enough. In the early 1960s Creator/TheRankOrganisation closed their Top Rank Records subsidiary, which had been distributed by EMI, and "The Greatest Recording Organisation in the World" wanted a replacement. At the same time, EMI execs saw the success that Creator/{{Decca|Records}}'s London imprint and Creator/PyeInternational were having by licensing hits from independent American labels for the European market. EMI's existing labels [[Creator/HisMastersVoiceRecords His Master's Voice]], [[Creator/EMIColumbiaRecords Columbia]] and (to a lesser extent) Creator/{{Parlophone|Records}} had all issued records that originated with small US indies, but EMI had never had a label specializing in that kind of release. Therefore, EMI created the Stateside label in 1962, with former Top Rank head Fred Oxon as its chief executive.