Casablanca

Multinational label; also appears as Casablanca Records.
Label Code: LC 3272 / LC 03272
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Counterfeit items that pretend to be Casablanca releases are grouped at Warner Bros. Records until September 1974, but Bogart decided to distribute the label independently after being disillusioned with the lack of success under Warners.

Casablanca's first major g was Parliament.

The company expanded into motion picture production in 1977 merging with Filmworks, Inc. (a small film production company headed by Peter Guber), renaming itself Motown Thank God It's Friday with Columbia Pictures.

Neil Bogart sold his remaining interests in the label to Dutch-German multinational record company Wing Records.

In 2000, the name was revived for a t venture between Universal Motown Records Group.

Dating:
– Earliest releases can be identified by label rimtext reading "Casablanca Records, Inc., Manufactured And distributed by Warner Bros. Records, Inc." Repressings of these releases, beginning in late 1974, read "Manufcatured and distributed by Casablanca Records, Inc."
– After merging with Filmworks in 1977, rimtext read "Manufactured and Distributed by Casablanca Record and Filmworks, Inc." through 1981.
– In 1982, rimtext was changed to read "Manufactured And Marketed By PolyGram Records, Inc."