13 Facts About MGM Records

MGM Records was a record label founded by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio in 1946 for the purpose of releasing soundtrack recordings of their musical films.

MGM Records released soundtrack albums of the music for some of their non-musical films as well, and on rare occasions, cast albums of off-Broadway musicals such as The Fantasticks and the 1954 revival of The Threepenny Opera.

In one instance, MGM Records released the highly successful soundtrack album of a film made by another studio, Columbia Pictures's Born Free .

MGM Records called these "original cast albums" in the style of Decca's Broadway show cast albums.

MGM Records issued albums of film scores, including Ben-Hur, King of Kings, Doctor Zhivago, How the West Was Won, the 1967 fake-stereo 70mm re-release of Gone With the Wind, and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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MGM Records released a second soundtrack album of Quo Vadis, this one containing only music from the film.

For several years in the late 1940s-early 1950s, MGM Records operated a radio syndication business, producing The MGM Records Theater of the Air and a variety of other series based on inactive movie properties such as Dr Kildare, Andy Hardy, Maisie, and Crime Does Not Pay.

The MGM Records record pressing plant manufactured the electrical transcriptions used to distribute the shows to local stations.

The record manufacturing division was closed when MGM Records was sold to PolyGram; after which MGM's former competitors began manufacturing records issued by MGM.

Subsidiary Cub MGM Records was launched in the late 1950s and Verve MGM Records was acquired from Norman Granz in December 1960.

MGM Records issued music of a variety of musical genres, but used the same set of catalog numbers.

In 1962, MGM Records picked up American distribution of the prestigious German classical music label Deutsche Grammophon Records.

In 1976, MGM Records, including its artists, was absorbed into PolyGram's Polydor Records.