American. The Music Corporation of America was founded in 1924, as a booking agency, by Jules Stern. It began issuing records in 1962, when it bought the US branch of Decca, which included the Coral and Brunswick labels; it brought all three together in 1973, under the MCA name. More acquisitions followed: the ABC group in 1979; Chess in 1985; and Motown in 1988 (though they sold it on in 1993). In 1995 MCA itself was bought, by the Seagram company. Seagram dropped the MCA name,

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