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Tetragrammaton Records

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Subsidiary label and company of [l=The Campbell, Silver, Cosby Corporation], founded in 1968 by [a=Bill Cosby], his manager [a=Roy Silver] and partner Bruce Post Campbell. The name references a term for the un-nameable name of God. The label released [a=Deep Purple]'s albums in the US as well as a double album by Cosby and material by [a=Pat Boone], [a=Lalo Schifrin] and the [a=Kingston Trio]. In collaboration with [l25693], Tetragrammaton pressed and distributed [a=John Lennon] and [a=Yoko Ono]'s [r=7191456] LP after [l=Capitol Records] refused to release it in America due to the nude cover. The label went bankrupt and closed in 1970. Deep Purple was moved to parent label [l=Warner Bros. Records] immediately after Tetragrammaton's collapse. Much of the back catalog was reissued on LP and CD in the late Eighties and early Nineties by a label called [l=Creative Sounds Ltd.] and its subsidiary [l=Rock Classics] but these were of substandard quality dubbed from vinyl records. California company number: 0541311 Registered: 26 February 1968