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The successor to [l=The Verve Group]. Succeeded in 2016 by [l=Verve Label Group]. Verve Records was originally the product of the vision of [a=Norman Granz]. He formed Verve Records in 1956 and moved all of his recordings to the Verve catalogue. In late 1960 Granz sold the label to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), which sold its record labels to [l=Polydor] in 1972. That brought Verve into [l=PolyGram]'s international family of labels. With the merger of [l=PolyGram] with the [l=Universal Music Group] in January 1999, [b]The Verve Music Group[/b] was created from The Verve Group, which also encompasses the influential labels [i]GRP[/i], [i]Impulse![/i] and [i]Blue Thumb[/i] labels, and oversees the jazz catalogs of several other Universal-owned labels, including Commodore, Chess, Brunswick, Argo, Cadet, Dot, Coral, Decca, ABC-Paramount, A&M, Mercury, Philips and Polydor.