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MGM Records was a record label started by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie studio in 1946. In the early 1950s, MGM Records was considered as one of the "major" record companies (besides Columbia, RCA, Decca, Capitol and Mercury). Subsidiary Cub Records was launched in the late 1950s and Verve Records was acquired from Norman Granz in 1961. Other MGM subsidiaries and distributed labels included: Kama Sutra (from 1965 until Buddah Records bought the label in 1969), Ava, Heritage, Metro (for budget albums), Hickory, MGM South, L&R, and Lionel.

MGM also distributed Cameo-Parkway Records briefly in 1967. Four albums were released under this arrangement before Allen Klein bought the Cameo-Parkway catalog and renamed the label ABKCO

MGM Records was sold to PolyGram in 1972. In 1975 PolyGram began to deemphasize the label; before long the MGM release schedule was reduced to a slow trickle of soundtrack albums and reissues, which stopped altogether in 1982. Artists under contract to MGM were moved to the Polydor Records roster by 1976.

Mention should be made of a short lived Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Records of 1928; it produced recordings of music featured in MGM movies, not sold to the general public but made to be played in movie theater lobbies. These Metro-Goldwyn Mayer records were manufactured under contract with the studio by Columbia Records.

• The Animals / Eric Burdon & The Animals
• Chris Bartley (Vando)
• Tony Blackburn
• Bobby Bloom (L&R)
• Eric Burdon & War
• Cherry People (Heritage)
• Lou Christie
• Petula Clark
• The Cowsills
• Bill Deal & The Rhondels (Heritage)
• Tommy Edwards
• Five Man Electrical Band (Lionel)
• Connie Francis
• Friend And Lover (Verve Forecast)
• The Gentrys
• Herman's Hermits
• The Hombres (Verve Forecast)
• Janis Ian (Verve)
• The Impalas (Cub)
• Jerry Landis
• Joni James
• Jimmy Jones (Cub)
• Bob Lind (Verve Folkways)
• Lovin' Spoonful (Kama Sutra)
• C.W. McCall
• Art Mooney & His Orchestra
• Ohio Express (Cameo)
• Roy Orbison
• The Mothers of Invention
• The Osmonds (Also Donny Osmond solo, Marie Osmond solo, Donny & Marie Osmond duo, & Little Jimmy Osmond solo)
• Sandy Posey
• Righteous Brothers (Verve)
• Tommy Roe (MGM South)
• The Royalettes
• Sam The Sham & The Pharoahs
• Bunny Sigler (Parkway)
• Sopwith "Camel" (Kama Sutra)
• Jim Stafford
• The Stereos (Cub)
• Johnny Tillotson
• Conway Twitty
• Walter Wanderley (Verve)
• Trade Winds (Kama Sutra)
• Hank Williams
• Hank Williams, Jr.
• Sheb Wooley
• Dennis Yost & The Classics IV (MGM South)

• MGM Records discography
• The Judy Garland Online Discography Soundtracks Pages

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