EMI Electrola

Appeared regularly on German pressings issued from 1972 to 2002 (with infrequent occurrences between 1983 and 1994). Please use always the branded/coded label as primary label. You can enter EMI Electrola as a label when the EMI Electrola logo appears on the release. The 'EMI Electrola' logo will likely appear on releases of following labels Apple Records (LC 1074), Arista (LC 3484), Bell Records (LC 0130), Capitol Records (LC 0148), Colorit (LC 4008), Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (LC 0761), Electrola (LC 0193), EMI (LC 0542), Harvest (LC 1305), His Master's Voice (LC 0233), Immediate (LC 0009), Liberty (LC 0249), Motown (LC 0881), Papagayo (LC 6712), Private Stock (LC 3475), RAK (LC 1750), Tamla Motown (LC 0363), The Rocket Record Company (LC 3053), United Artists Records (LC 0379), etc. The EMI Electrola GmbH was founded 1972, but the history of name started 47 years before. The Gramophone Company founded the Electrola Gesellschaft m.b.H. in 1925 in Berlin. In 1931 Electrola GmbH started a Joint Venture with the Carl Lindström AG. In the same year the parent companies - Gramophone Company and Columbia Graphophone Company - merged into the Electric & Musical Industries Ltd. (EMI). In 1952 the two german EMI subsidiaries moved to Cologne and twenty years later the Carl Lindström AG merged with Electrola GmbH into the EMI Electrola GmbH. This new company set up a trademark for its products: EMI Electrola In 2002 the German EMI companies went through a major reorganisation in which the EMI Electrola GmbH merged with the Virgin Schallplatten GmbH. This resulted in a new company called EMI Music Germany GmbH & Co. KG. Please use this page only for releases on which the combined "EMI Electrola" logo appears. These releases will only occur in the period between 1972 and 2002. Records that show 'EMI' on the center labels and/or LC 0542 should also be submitted to EMI. Records that show "Electrola" on the center labels and/or LC 0193 should also be submitted to Electrola.