Esquire Records was an Australian record label based in Sydney. In 1951 it acquired the Australian and New Zealand distribution rights for Discovery Records[1] and later that year the distribution rights for Prestige Records.[2] In 1955 Esquire acquired the Australian rights to Mercury Records. In 1962 the label closed, to re-emerge as Philips' Recording Mercury, after being taken over by Philips Records.
The label distributed Petula Clark's first singles in Australia.[3][4]
See also edit
Further reading edit
- Mercury Record Corporation (1956). Mercury records catalogue : 1 956-1957 releases. Esquire Mercury. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
References edit
- ^ "Esquire Foreign Rep for Discovery". Billboard. 25 August 1951. p. 41.
- ^ "Disk trade". Billboard. 8 May 1961. p. 26.
- ^ "Advertising". The Inverell Times. New South Wales, Australia. 11 July 1952. p. 6. Retrieved 26 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Advertising". The Newcastle Sun. No. 10, 118. New South Wales, Australia. 7 June 1950. p. 4. Retrieved 26 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
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