Date Records

{{Short description|Defunct American record label}} '''Date Records''' was a sub-label of Columbia Records which had two different incarnations.

The first incarnation was a short-lived rockabilly label from 1957 to 1958 which notably included a release by Billy "Crash" Craddock.

The more significant incarnation was relaunched in February 1966 by industry executive Tom Noonan. The label was relaunched to promote Columbia's acquired and independently produced recordings as opposed to Columbia's in-house productions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bsnpubs.com/columbia/date/date.html|title=Date Album Discography|website=bsnpubs.com}}</ref>

The most successful acts on the Date label were Peaches & Herb and the Zombies. Domestically, the label was dissolved in 1970, except for one more single ("I'll Close the Door Behind Me" by the Pooh, an English-language version of "Tanta Voglia Di Lei") that was released in early 1972.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.45cat.com/record/21678|title=The Pooh - I'll Close The Door Behind Me|publisher=}}</ref> The Date name would continue to be used for reissues in South Africa and Rhodesia until 1976. Date acts were transferred to either the Columbia or Epic labels with most reissues of Date material on Epic. Sony Music Entertainment now owns the Date catalogue which is managed by Legacy Recordings.

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==External links== *[http://bsnpubs.com/columbia/date/date.html Date Records story and album discography from BSN Pubs] *[http://rcs-discography.com/rcs/labels/d/d306.htm Partial Date rockabilly label discography]{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Category:American record labels Category:Record labels disestablished in 1970 Category:Record labels established in 1966 Category:Columbia Records