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Also appears as "Mercury Record Corp." and "Mercury Records Corp." The legal parent of the [l=Mercury] label (and its subsidiaries) from its formation on March 1st, 1947, to the mid 1960s, when it was doubled with [l=Mercury Record Productions, Inc.], which superseded it by 1971. Circa 1970 this was the parent company of [l39357], [l7704], [l51779], [l205], [l26611], and [l56372]. At that time, it was a product of [l300733], and a North American Philips Company. [b]NOTES: 1. This is a record company, not a label. Please use Mercury or the appropriate subsidiary as the label. 2. This company should not be used for any releases after 1971, except for repressings of albums originally released in or before 1971 that say "Mercury Record Corporation" on the cover.[/b]