Esquire Records

For the UK record label, see Esquire Records (UK).

Esquire Records was an Australian record label based in Sydney. In 1951 it acquired the Australian and New Zealand distribution rights for Discovery Records^[1] and later that year the distribution rights for Prestige Records.^[2] In 1955 Esquire acquired the Australian rights to Mercury Records. In 1962 the label closed, to re-emerge as Philips' Recording Mercury, after being taken over by Philips Records.

The label distributed Petula Clark's first singles in Australia.^[3][4]

See also

• Music portal
• Australia portal

• List of record labels

Further reading

• Mercury Record Corporation (1956). Mercury records catalogue : 1 956-1957 releases. Esquire Mercury. Retrieved 27 February 2024.

References

1. "Esquire Foreign Rep for Discovery". Billboard. 25 August 1951. p. 41.
2. "Disk trade". Billboard. 8 May 1961. p. 26.
3. "Advertising". The Inverell Times. New South Wales, Australia. 11 July 1952. p. 6. Retrieved 26 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
4. "Advertising". The Newcastle Sun. No. 10, 118. New South Wales, Australia. 7 June 1950. p. 4. Retrieved 26 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.