History Creator / LibertyRecords

* UsefulNotes/LyndonBJohnson (via ''Mr. President'', a 1965 compilation of various speeches)

* Music/RaviShankar*

...which is where things start to get complicated. First, UA released both new records and reissues by former Liberty artists. Then, in 1979, Creator/{{EMI}} bought the United Artists label, eventually changing its name back to Liberty since it was no longer associated with the studio, as well as resurrecting the Statue of Liberty logo while using the gray label background and rainbow logo font of [[Creator/EMIAmericaRecords EMI America]] releases of the era. Stateside, Capitol used the Liberty imprint mainly for country music, but outside the U.S. EMI used Liberty for new releases and reissues of artists originally on UA, regardless of genre. Therefore, some Liberty releases were reissued on United Artists, and some United Artists releases were reissued on Liberty! And ''then'', EMI America started using its imprint for further reissues from the UA/Liberty catalog, meaning that many artists wound up having releases on all three labels! Liberty was then merged with EMI America, which in turn was merged with Manhattan Records to form EMI-Manhattan. The Liberty/UA catalog was naturally reissued under this new name in turn. If all this seems confusing, the record company seemed to have trouble keeping all this straight as well: the cover might refer to EMI America, EMI-Manhattan or just EMI on the cover, but use Liberty or one of the other imprints on the label. In 1997, American EMI would be absorbed into Creator/VirginRecords and Capitol.

...which is where things start to get complicated. First, UA released both new records and reissues by former Liberty artists. Then, in 1979, Creator/{{EMI}} bought the United Artists label, eventually changing its name back to Liberty since it was no longer associated with the studio, as well as resurrecting the Statue of Liberty logo while using the gray label background and rainbow logo font of [[Creator/EMIAmericaRecords EMI America]] releases of the era. Stateside, Capitol used the Liberty imprint mainly for country music, but outside the U.S. EMI used Liberty for new releases and reissues of artists originally on UA, regardless of genre. Therefore, some Liberty releases were reissued on United Artists, and some United Artists releases were reissued on Liberty! And ''then'', EMI America started using its imprint for further reissues from the UA/Liberty catalog, meaning that many artists wound up having releases on all three labels! Liberty was then merged with EMI America, which in turn was merged with Manhattan Records to form EMI-Manhattan. The Liberty/UA catalog was naturally reissued under this new name in turn. If all this seems confusing, the record company seemed to have trouble keeping all this straight as well: the cover might refer to EMI America, EMI-Manhattan or just EMI on the cover, but use Liberty or one of the other imprints on the label.

...which is where things start to get complicated. First, UA released both new records and reissues by former Liberty artists. Then, in 1979, Creator/{{EMI}} bought the United Artists label, eventually changing its name back to Liberty since it was no longer associated with the studio, as well as resurrecting the Statue of Liberty logo while using the gray label background and rainbow logo font of [[Creator/EMIAmericaRecords EMI America]] releases of the era. Stateside, Capitol used the Liberty imprint mainly for country music, but overseas EMI used Liberty for new releases and reissues of artists originally on UA, regardless of genre. Therefore, some Liberty releases were reissued on United Artists, and some United Artists releases were reissued on Liberty! And ''then'', EMI America started using its imprint for further reissues from the UA/Liberty catalog, meaning that many artists wound up having releases on all three labels! Liberty was then merged with EMI America, which in turn was merged with Manhattan Records to form EMI-Manhattan. The Liberty/UA catalog was naturally reissued under this new name in turn. If all this seems confusing, the record company seemed to have trouble keeping all this straight as well: the cover might refer to EMI America, EMI-Manhattan or just EMI on the cover, but use Liberty or one of the other imprints on the label.

...which is where things start to get complicated. First, UA released both new records and reissues by former Liberty artists. Then, in 1979, Creator/{{EMI}} bought the United Artists label, eventually changing its name back to Liberty since it was no longer associated with the studio, as well as resurrecting the Statue of Liberty logo while using the gray label background and rainbow logo font of [[Creator/EMIAmericaRecords EMI America]] releases of the era. Stateside, Capitol used the Liberty imprint mainly for country music, but overseas EMI used Liberty for new releases of artists originally on UA as well as UA's back catalog, regardless of genre. Therefore, some Liberty releases were reissued on United Artists, and some United Artists releases were reissued on Liberty! And ''then'', EMI America started using its imprint for further reissues from the UA/Liberty catalog, meaning that many artists wound up having releases on all three labels! Liberty was then merged with EMI America, which in turn was merged with Manhattan Records to form EMI-Manhattan. The Liberty/UA catalog was naturally reissued under this new name in turn. If all this seems confusing, the record company seemed to have trouble keeping all this straight as well: the cover might refer to EMI America, EMI-Manhattan or just EMI on the cover, but use Liberty or one of the other imprints on the label.

Launched in 1955, Liberty Records took its logo from the Art/StatueOfLiberty. It evolved into one of the most biggest independent labels of TheSixties.

...which is where things start to get complicated. First, UA released both new records and reissues by former Liberty artists. Then, in 1979, Creator/{{EMI}} bought the United Artists label, eventually changing its name back to Liberty since it was no longer associated with the studio, as well as resurrecting the Statue of Liberty logo while using the gray label background and rainbow logo font of [[Creator/EMIAmericaRecords EMI America]] releases of the era. Stateside, Capitol used the Liberty imprint mainly for country music, but overseas EMI used Liberty for new releases artists originally on UA as well as UA's back catalog, regardless of genre. Therefore, some Liberty releases were reissued on United Artists, and some United Artists releases were reissued on Liberty! And ''then'', EMI America started using its imprint for further reissues from the UA/Liberty catalog, meaning that many artists wound up having releases on all three labels! Liberty was then merged with EMI America, which in turn was merged with Manhattan Records to form EMI-Manhattan. The Liberty/UA catalog was naturally reissued under this new name in turn. If all this seems confusing, the record company seemed to have trouble keeping all this straight as well: the cover might refer to EMI America, EMI-Manhattan or just EMI on the cover, but use Liberty or one of the other imprints on the label.

...which is where things start to get complicated. First, UA released both new records and reissues by former Liberty artists. Then, in 1979, Creator/{{EMI}} bought the United Artists label, eventually changing its name back to Liberty since it was no longer associated with the studio, as well as resurrecting the Statue of Liberty logo while using the gray label background and rainbow logo font of [[Creator/EMIAmericaRecords EMI America]] releases of the era. Stateside, Capitol used the Liberty imprint mainly for country music, but overseas EMI used Liberty for artists originally on UA as well as the back catalog, regardless of genre. Therefore, some Liberty releases were reissued on United Artists, and some United Artists releases were reissued on Liberty! And ''then'', EMI America started using its imprint for further reissues from the UA/Liberty catalog, meaning that many artists wound up having releases on all three labels! Liberty was then merged with EMI America, which in turn was merged with Manhattan Records to form EMI-Manhattan. The Liberty/UA catalog was naturally reissued under this new name in turn. If all this seems confusing, the record company seemed to have trouble keeping all this straight as well: the cover might refer to EMI America, EMI-Manhattan or just EMI on the cover, but use Liberty or one of the other imprints on the label.

...which is where things start to get complicated. First, UA released both new records and reissues by former Liberty artists. Then, in 1979, Creator/{{EMI}} bought the United Artists label, eventually changing its name back to Liberty since it was no longer associated with the studio, as well as resurrecting the Statue of Liberty logo while using the gray label background and rainbow logo font of [[Creator/EMIAmericaRecords EMI America]] releases of the era. Stateside, Capitol used the Liberty imprint was mainly for country music, but overseas EMI used Liberty for artists originally on UA as well as the back catalog, regardless of genre. Therefore, some Liberty releases were reissued on United Artists, and some United Artists releases were reissued on Liberty! And ''then'', EMI America started using its imprint for further reissues from the UA/Liberty catalog, meaning that many artists wound up having releases on all three labels! Liberty was then merged with EMI America, which in turn was merged with Manhattan Records to form EMI-Manhattan. The Liberty/UA catalog was naturally reissued under this new name in turn. If all this seems confusing, the record company seemed to have trouble keeping all this straight as well: the cover might refer to EMI America, EMI-Manhattan or just EMI on the cover, but use Liberty or one of the other imprints on the label.

...which is where things start to get complicated. First, UA released both new records and reissues by former Liberty artists. Then, in 1979, Creator/{{EMI}} bought the United Artists label, eventually changing its name back to Liberty since it was no longer associated with the studio, as well as resurrecting the Statue of Liberty logo while using the gray label background and rainbow logo font of [[Creator/EMIAmericaRecords EMI America]] releases of the era. Stateside, imprint was mainly used for country music, but overseas EMI used Liberty for artists originally on UA as well as the back catalog, regardless of genre. Therefore, some Liberty releases were reissued on United Artists, and some United Artists releases were reissued on Liberty! And ''then'', EMI America started using its imprint for further reissues from the UA/Liberty catalog, meaning that many artists wound up having releases on all three labels! Liberty was then merged with EMI America, which in turn was merged with Manhattan Records to form EMI-Manhattan. The Liberty/UA catalog was naturally reissued under this new name in turn. If all this seems confusing, the record company seemed to have trouble keeping all this straight as well: the cover might refer to EMI America, EMI-Manhattan or just EMI on the cover, but use Liberty or one of the other imprints on the label.

...which is where things start to get complicated. First, UA released both new records and reissues by former Liberty artists. Then, in 1979, Creator/{{EMI}} bought the United Artists label, eventually changing its name back to Liberty since it was no longer associated with the studio, as well as resurrecting the Statue of Liberty logo while using the gray label background and rainbow logo font of [[Creator/EMIAmericaRecords EMI America]] releases of the era. Therefore, some Liberty releases were reissued on United Artists, and some United Artists releases were reissued on Liberty! And ''then'', EMI America started using its imprint for further reissues from the UA/Liberty catalog, meaning that many artists wound up having releases on all three labels! Liberty was then merged with EMI America, which in turn was merged with Manhattan Records to form EMI-Manhattan. The Liberty/UA catalog was naturally reissued under this new name in turn. If all this seems confusing, the record company seemed to have trouble keeping all this straight as well: the cover might refer to EMI America, EMI-Manhattan or just EMI on the cover, but use Liberty or one of the other imprints on the label.

* Music/{{Buzzcocks}} (UK only)

* Music/{{Buzzcocks}}

...which is where things start to get complicated. First, UA released both new records and reissues by former Liberty artists. Then, in 1979, Creator/{{EMI}} bought the United Artists label, eventually changing its name back to Liberty since it was no longer associated with the studio, as well as resurrecting the Statue of Liberty logo while using the gray label background and rainbow logo font of [[Creator/EMIAmericaRecords EMI America]] releases of the era. Therefore, some Liberty releases were reissued on United Artists, and some United Artists releases were reissued on Liberty! And ''then'', EMI America started using its imprint for further reissues from the UA/Liberty catalog, meaning that many artists wound up having releases on all three labels! Liberty was then merged with EMI America, which in turn was merged with Manhattan Records to form EMI-Manhattan. The Liberty/UA catalog was naturally reissued under this new name in turn. If all this seems confusing, the record company seemed to have trouble keeping all this straight as well: the cover might refer to EMI America, EMI-Manhattan or just EMI on the cover, but use Liberty or one of the other companies on the label.

...which is where things start to get complicated. First, UA released both new records and reissues by former Liberty artists. Then, in 1979, Creator/{{EMI}} bought the United Artists label, eventually changing its name back to Liberty since it was no longer associated with the studio, as well as resurrecting the Statue of Liberty logo while using the gray label background and rainbow logo font of [[Creator/EMIAmericaRecords EMI America]] releases of the era. Therefore, some Liberty releases were reissued on United Artists, and some United Artists releases were reissued on Liberty! And ''then'', EMI America started using its imprint for further reissues from the UA/Liberty catalog, meaning that many artists wound up having releases on all three labels! Liberty was then merged with EMI America, which in turn was merged with Manhattan Records to form EMI-Manhattan. The Liberty/UA catalog was naturally reissued under this new name in turn. If all this seems confusing, the record company seemed to have trouble keeping all this straight as well: the cover might refer to EMI America, EMI-Manhattan or just EMI on the cover, but use Liberty or one of the other companies on the label, and vice versa.

...which is where things start to get complicated. First, UA released both new records and reissues by former Liberty artists. Then, in 1979, Creator/{{EMI}} bought the United Artists label, eventually changing its name back to Liberty since it was no longer associated with the studio, as well as resurrecting the Statue of Liberty logo while using the gray label background and rainbow logo font of [[Creator/EMIAmericaRecords EMI America]] releases of the era. Therefore, some Liberty releases were reissued on United Artists, and some United Artists releases were reissued on Liberty! And ''then'', EMI America started using its imprint for further reissues from the UA/Liberty catalog, meaning that many artists wound up having releases on all three labels! Liberty was then merged with EMI America, which in turn was merged with Manhattan Records to form EMI-Manhattan. The Liberty/UA catalog was naturally reissued under this new name in turn. If all this seems confusing, the record company seemed to have trouble keeping all this straight as well: the cover might refer to EMI America, EMI-Manhattan or just EMI on the cover, but use Liberty on the label, and vice versa.

...which is where things start to get complicated. First, UA released both new records and reissues by former Liberty artists. Then, in 1979, Creator/{{EMI}} bought the United Artists label, eventually changing its name back to Liberty since it was no longer associated with the studio, as well as resurrecting the Statue of Liberty logo while using the gray label background and rainbow logo font of [[Creator/EMIAmericaRecords EMI America]] releases of the era. Therefore, some Liberty releases were reissued on United Artists, and some United Artists releases were reissued on Liberty! And ''then'', EMI America started using its imprint for further reissues from the UA/Liberty catalog, meaning that many artists wound up having releases on all three labels! Liberty was then merged with EMI America, which in turn was merged with Manhattan Records to form EMI-Manhattan. The Liberty/UA catalog was naturally reissued under this new name in turn. If all this seems confusing, the record company seemed to have trouble keeping all this straight as well: the cover might refer to EMI America on the cover, but use Liberty on the label, and vice versa.

...which is where things start to get complicated. First, UA released both new records and reissues by former Liberty artists. Then, in 1979, Creator/{{EMI}} bought the United Artists label, eventually changing its name back to Liberty since it was no longer associated with the studio, as well as resurrecting the Statue of Liberty logo while using the gray label background and rainbow logo font of [[Creator/EMIAmericaRecords EMI America]] releases of the era. Therefore, some Liberty releases were reissued on United Artists, and some United Artists releases were reissued on Liberty! And ''then'', EMI America started using its imprint for further reissues from the UA/Liberty catalog, meaning that many artists wound up having releases on all three labels! Liberty was then merged with EMI America, which in turn was merged with Manhattan Records to form EMI-Manhattan. The Liberty/UA catalog was naturally reissued under this new name in turn. If all this seems confusing, the record company seemed to have trouble keeping all this straight as well: the cover might refer to one label on the cover, but have the label refer to one of the others.

...which is where things start to get complicated. First, UA released both new records and reissues by former Liberty artists. Then, in 1979, Creator/{{EMI}} bought the United Artists label, eventually changing its name back to Liberty since it was no longer associated with the studio, as well as resurrecting the Statue of Liberty logo while using the gray label background and rainbow logo font of [[Creator/EMIAmericaRecords EMI America]] releases of the era. Therefore, some Liberty releases were reissued on United Artists, and some United Artists releases were reissued on Liberty! And ''then'', EMI America started using its imprint for further reissues from the UA/Liberty catalog, meaning that many artists wound up having releases on all three labels! Liberty was then merged with EMI America, which in turn was merged with Manhattan Records to form EMI-Manhattan. The Liberty/UA catalog was naturally reissued under this new name in turn.

One of Liberty's earliest signings, chanteuse Julie London, had a Top 10 hit with "Cry Me A River". The label also got into the new RockAndRoll scene with performers such as hitmaker Music/EddieCochran. Despite these successes, the fledgling company was on the verge of bankruptcy by 1958. However, it came back from the brink thanks to songwriter Ross Bagdasarian, aka David Seville, whose smash novelty hit "Witch Doctor" used sped-up vocals. Bagdasarian soon spun off this gimmick into Franchise/AlvinAndTheChipmunks, a trio of singing cartoon rodents named after Liberty's top executives: Alvin (after label president Al Bennett), Simon (chairman Si Waronker), and Theodore (chief engineer Ted Keep). The Chipmunks became the stars of a multimedia franchise that still continues today.

In 1968, Liberty (including all of its sublabels) was bought by Transamerica Corporation, which had acquired the Creator/UnitedArtists film studio and [[Creator/UnitedArtistsRecords its associated record company]] the previous year. After running both labels concurrently for three years, in 1971 Transamerica shut Liberty down and transferred its roster and catalog to United Artists...

...which is where things start to get complicated. First, UA released both new records and reissues by former Liberty artists. Then, in 1979, Creator/{{EMI}} bought the United Artists label, eventually changing its name back to Liberty since it was no longer associated with the studio, as well as resurrecting the Statue of Liberty y logo while using the gray label background and rainbow logo font of [[Creator/EMIAmericaRecords EMI America]] releases of the era. Therefore, some Liberty releases were reissued on United Artists, and some United Artists releases were reissued on Liberty! And ''then'', EMI America started using its imprint for further reissues from the UA/Liberty catalog, meaning that many artists wound up having releases on all three labels! Liberty was then merged with EMI America, which in turn was merged with Manhattan Records to form EMI-Manhattan. The Liberty/UA catalog was naturally reissued under this new name in turn.

...which is where things start to get complicated. First, UA released both new records and reissues by former Liberty artists. Then, in 1979, Creator/{{EMI}} bought the United Artists label, eventually changing its name back to Liberty since it was no longer associated with the studio, as well as resurrecting the Statue of Libery logo while using the gray label background and rainbow logo font of [[Creator/EMIAmericaRecords EMI America]] releases of the era. Therefore, some Liberty releases were reissued on United Artists, and some United Artists releases were reissued on Liberty! And ''then'', EMI America started using its imprint for further reissues from the UA/Liberty catalog, meaning that many artists wound up having releases on all three labels! Liberty was then merged with EMI America, which in turn was merged with Manhattan Records to form EMI-Manhattan. The Liberty/UA catalog was naturally reissued under this new name in turn.

...which is where things start to get complicated. First, UA released both new records and reissues by former Liberty artists. Then, in 1979, Creator/{{EMI}} bought the United Artists label, eventually changing its name back to Liberty since it was no longer associated with the studio, as well as resurrecting the Statue of Libery logo while using the gray label background and rainbow logo font of [[Creator/EMIAmericaRecords EMI America]] releases of the era. Therefore, some Liberty releases were reissued on United Artists, and some United Artists releases were reissued on Liberty! And ''then'', EMI America started using its imprint for further reissues from the UA/Liberty catalog, meaning that many artists wound up having releases on all three labels! Liberty was then merged with EMI America, which in turn was merged with Manhattan Records to form EMI-Manhattan.

...which is where things start to get complicated. First, UA released both new records and reissues by former Liberty artists. Then, in 1979, Creator/{{EMI}} bought the United Artists label, eventually changing its name back to Liberty since it was no longer associated with the studio, as well as resurrecting the Statue of Libery logo while using the gray label background and rainbow logo font of [[Creator/EMIAmericaRecords EMI America]] releases of the era. Therefore, some Liberty releases were reissued on United Artists, and some United Artists releases were reissued on Liberty! And ''then'', EMI started using its imprint for further reissues from the UA/Liberty catalog, meaning that many artists wound up having releases on all three labels! Liberty was then merged with EMI America, which in turn was merged with Manhattan Records to form EMI-Manhattan.