Talk:Mercury Records

Gold record award value
While at a garage sale one sat I found and bought 2 showcases of the platters golden hits its in a big black frame and 4 gold 45s and 1 gold 33rm and on the bottom there is a plaque and written are the words "To Paul Robbi of the Platters for your one millionth golden record. and has thier greatest hits. Smoke gets in your eyes, Would like to know what they are worth, please.—207.200.116.14 18:55, 26 July 2005 (UTC)


 * (This is probably too late, and you probably forgot you posted here, but…) They are worth whatever someone will pay for them. I realize that's not helpful, but one-of-a-kind items, by their nature, don't have much of a trade history; it's not like you can look to see how much that particular item has recently been selling for. Best you can do is look for similar items and see what kind of prices they fetch, or just put it up on eBay and see what happens. Just in general though, gold record awards generally only go for a couple hundred bucks.—mjb 08:11, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

The legend under the Mercury Logo at the end of article says "logo used from the late 60s to the mid-late 90s", but I own several old 78 RPM Mercury records made before 1955 bearing the same logo. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Joatamon (talk • contribs) on 14:30, 6 June 2006 Joatamon

Graham Parker
We ought to find space for Graham Parker's comments on his time with Mercury Records - "I got Mercury poisoning, it's fatal and it don't get better." -- Beardo 04:47, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

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Mercury Records Australia merge proposal
Usually, record labels which have a global presence have a single article. Decca Records, the old Bell Records, RCA Records and Columbia Records are good examples. Should the article on Mercury Records of Australia be merged into this article? Steelbeard1 (talk) 18:34, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

What happened to Blank Records
The Band the Misfits self-published label's name was Blank. Mercury was interested in using Blank as the name for a side company. They offered the Misfits 30 recording hours at their studios in exchange for the rights for the name (They used this to record Static Age). Well they had/have (do they still?) the rights to that name has anybody heard of what happened to it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.162.217.46 (talk) 04:57, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Country of origin
It is a matter of fact that Mercury Records was founded in Chicago, Illinois in the United States in 1945. While Mercury was absorbed into Island Records in the U.S., but continues operate as a standalone unit of Universal Music in some other parts of the world, the label is still of American origin so the infobox should clearly state that its country of origin is the U.S. Steelbeard1 (talk) 12:02, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Defunct? I don't think so!
"Bon Jovi announce departure from label with bitter new song"... How does this mean Mercury is out of business? --101.173.103.105 (talk) 09:52, 9 October 2019 (UTC)