The company's offerings grew rapidly as did its fortunes. Just three months later the fledgling record company had two records on Billboard's Top 10 chart: "Cow Cow Boogie" sung by Ella Mae Morse and "Strip Polka" written by Johnny Mercer. In June 1942 Capitol Records issued its first release: a 78-rpm shellac platter featuring Paul Whiteman's New Yorker Hotel Orchestra. With $25,000 in start-up capital, provided by DeSylva, Mercer set about signing talent while Wallichs ran the business.Įnvisioning a West Coast-based music recording studio, the three pooled their creative and business talents to make it happen. Wallichs was the founder and owner of Music City, a popular record outlet located at Sunset and Vine in Hollywood, where customers could buy radios, records, and sheet music for their favorite songs, after sampling records in private listening booths. DeSylva was a successful songwriter and an executive producer at Paramount Pictures. Mercer was a songwriter from New York City who came to Hollywood in 1935 to write songs for RKO Studios. WARTIME LAUNCH, POSTWAR GROWTHĬapitol Records was founded by Johnny Mercer, Buddy DeSylva, and Glenn Wallichs shortly after the United States entered World War II. Based in Los Angeles, California, the company operates as part of EMI's Capitol Music Group, alongside the U.S. Today Capitol Records markets music in a wide range of popular genres, including pop, rock, alternative, rhythm and blues (R&B), and hip-hop. With a rich and revered history in the pop music industry, the Capitol record label was once home to such icons as Frank Sinatra and the Beatles. NAIC: 334612 Prerecorded Compact Disc (Except Software), Tape, and Record Reproducing 512220 Integrated Record Production/DistributionĬapitol Records, Inc., is a wholly owned subsidiary of EMI Music, the recorded music division of EMI Group, one of the world's leading recorders, publishers, and retailers of music.
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