Liberty Records was a
United States-based
record label. It was started by chairman
Simon Waronker in
1955 with
Alvin Bennett as president and
Theodore Keep as chief engineer. It was reactivated in
2001 in the
United Kingdom and had two previous revivals.In
1957, Liberty acquired the
jazz label,
Pacific Jazz Records. In
1963, the Liberty Records label was sold to
Avnet (an
electronics corporation) for
$12 million. Avnet also bought
Blue Note Records,
Imperial Records,
Dolton Records,
Aladdin Records and
Minit Records. After two years of losses, Avnet sold the labels back to Al Bennett for $8 million. In
1966, a reissue label,
Sunset Records, was started to deal with previously issued records from the new labels. Liberty recordings were first distributed in
England by
Decca Records on
London Records, then by
EMI, which released the recordings on the Liberty label. Liberty established a branch office in
London, which signed acts such as the
Bonzo Dog Band.
Ron Kass, onetime president of Liberty Records, later became the head of the
Beatles' record label,
Apple Records.
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