Stateside Records
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| Parent company | EMI |
| Founded | 1962 |
| Founder(s) | Fred Oxon |
| Distributing label | EMI Records (In the UK) |
| Genre(s) | various |
| Country of Origin | UK |
| Website | Official site of Stateside Records |
Stateside ($tateside) Records was a 1960s British record label.
It was formed in 1962 by EMI as a replacement for the Top Rank label (originally the Rank Organisation's label), which had folded. EMI hired former Top Rank label head Fred Oxon to run the label and compete with Decca Records' rival London label. While Top Rank's British acts (such as John Leyton) were assigned to EMI's Columbia and HMV labels, Stateside continued to issue records from its American suppliers, such as Tamla-Motown-Gordy, Amy, 20th Century Fox, Scepter, Vee-Jay and A&M. Its first hit was Palisades Park by Freddy Cannon which was licenced from Swan Records. It was through EMI's relationship with Vee-Jay and Swan that pre-1964 recordings by The Beatles were released by those labels in the USA when EMI's American subsidiary Capitol Records turned them down.
In the late 1960s, when EMI set up long term licence contracts with US labels like Motown Records, MCA Records and Asylum Records it no longer needed Stateside, and the label retired quietly in 1973 as EMI retired most of their pop music labels in favour of the EMI label.
In the 1980s, the Stateside label was revived as a catalogue reissue label.
