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June 18, 2017 22:11

Record dealer Henk van Zoelen owned the exclusive rights of the English Decca label from 1930 onwards. In 1934 he started his own press shop in Amsterdam, where Philips assisted in the manufacture of press molds. Immediately after the war, Philips became increasingly interested in music and took over the shares of De Hollandsche Decca Distribution from Van Zoelen. A special record branch was created for this purpose under the name N.V. Philips Phonographic Industry: PPI for short. Its head office was in Baarn. The Dutch branch was called Phonogram. The release numbers of the various labels (Philips, Decca, Fontana and Mercury) were arranged from Baarn.

In 1962, Philips entered into a partnership with Siemens & amp; Halske. They owned Deutsche Gramophon and Polydor. In 1972 this led to the establishment of PolyGram, while Phonogram and Polydor in the Netherlands both remained separate companies. In 1987 Philips bought out Siemens and thus became the owner of Polygram.

In 1998 parent company PolyGram was taken over by Seagram. And that eventually became the Universal Music Group.

All singles that were released on the labels Philips, Decca and Fontana, I put in series and added to them. They can be found by searching on:

Philips sing
Fontana sing
Decca sing

You will then see a number of found items on the left, but if if you click on "more" below, you will get the whole list. The series is then immediately sorted by the number of items. The series with the most is at the top. I have already added background information to a number of them. The rest is yet to come ...

Vertigo has done the same with the EPs. Dick52 has also made the necessary adjustments.

Request to importers: if you add a Philips, Fontana or Decca single, please also include the series.

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