MCA Records: version 1
Saved 2026-09-25 14:12 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added MCA Classics MCAD2-9821 (UPC 0 76732-9821-2 9), the 1989 US double decker 2-CD issue of Hermann Scherchen's 1959 Bach Mass in B minor, completing a variant row of family/bach-mass-in-b-minor-sch. This is the current version.
Source of v1
# MCA Records <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: MCA Records
disambiguation: American record company of MCA Inc., 1970–2000
legal_name: MCA Records, Inc.
registered_address: 70 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA
country: US
register_ids: US-CA:602267
founded: 1970-07-03
dissolved: 2000-04-21
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ----------- | ---------------------- | ------ | ---------- | ----- | ----- | ------- | --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| merged_into | company/umg-recordings | | 2000-04-21 | | | sourced | ^discogs-mcainc | Discogs: dissolved 21 April 2000, merged into UMG Recordings, Inc. |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ------------------------ | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| MCA Records, Inc. | legal | en | | |
| MCA Records Inc. | search | en | | |
| MCA Records Incorporated | search | en | | |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ----------------- | ----------- | --------- | ------------------------------------ | ------------------------------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| caa-a | https://coverartarchive.org/release/472fe3eb-7f31-449c-9c9e-abb6a07acc08 | Cover Art Archive: front cover, booklet and tray card of disc one (MCAD2-9821A) | 2026-09-25 | Cover Art Archive | pack | | 472fe3eb-7f31-449c-9c9e-abb6a07acc08 | images 38635852410, 38635854926 | | | |
| discogs-mcainc | https://api.discogs.com/labels/63704 | Discogs label 63704: MCA Records, Inc. | 2026-09-25 | Discogs | catalogue | | 63704 | profile | | | |
| wp-mca | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCA_Records | Wikipedia: MCA Records | 2026-09-25 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | |
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## About <!--about-->
MCA Records, Inc. was the record company of the entertainment group MCA Inc.; Discogs records it as incorporated in California on 3 July 1970 (company number 602267), parent of the US Decca, Kapp and Uni labels from April 1971, and dissolved on 21 April 2000 by merger into UMG Recordings, Inc.[^discogs-mcainc] The MCA Records label itself was established in 1972 and folded into Geffen Records in 2003.[^wp-mca] The pack of MCA Classics' 1989 double decker CDs names it at 70 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, as the company the discs were manufactured for.[^caa-a]
In 1979 MCA bought ABC Records with its subsidiaries, among them Westminster; in 1989 MCA Inc. formed the holding MCA Music Entertainment Group, which was renamed Universal Music Group in 1996.[^wp-mca] Its classical catalogue is now managed by Deutsche Grammophon.[^wp-mca]
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