Coral Records was a Decca Records subsidiary based in the United States of America. Various jazz and swing band recordings were issued on Coral in the 1940s. Coral's A&R manager Bob Thiele would marry Coral artist Teresa Brewer. Coral Records is fondly remembered by early rock & roll fans as the home of the incomparable Buddy Holly and The Crickets. Coral was swallowed up by MCA Records in the late 1960s.

In the late 1950's Debbie Reynolds briefly recorded for Coral, with such songs as "Tammy".

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• List of record labels

Defunct record labels | Verve Music Group labels

Coral Records, like UNI and Decca, were distributed by MCA for years.

In 1973, Coral, Uni, Decca, Vocalion (the budget subsidiary of Decca) all got swallowed up by MCA.

From this point on, all records that were still selling, like albums by Elton John (Uni) and the WHO (Decca) were reissued on the new MCA label.

On the record jackets, the new MCA catalog number was listed with the catalog number of the pervious label in fine print).

I do not recall ever seeing stickers with the new label & catalog number afixed to the jackets, of old stock, like I did when US record labels dumped their mono albums in favor of "stereo only" in early 1968. But then again, that is another story altogether.

(submitted by Mike McKenna (e-mail Michael_Mckenna@tnet.it)