Soundtracks to Oliver!, In Cold Blood, Head, and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner were also released on Colgems. Limited, the Hung Jury, Fountain of Youth, The Lewis & Clarke Expedition (whose members included Michael Martin Murphey), Hoyt Axton, Alex Keenan and comedian Rich Little.

The non-Monkees Colgems roster included Sally Field, Jewel Akens, Sajid Khan, Paula Wayne, P.K. The Colpix catalog is owned by Warner Music Group with its Rhino Records unit holding the rights in North America and its Parlophone unit the rights in the rest of the world. The Colpix catalog was sold to Roulette Records. (One Colpix album was reissued on Colgems, the soundtrack to the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia.) Even before the Monkees began, Colpix had signed two future members – Davy Jones, recruited to Screen Gems by Ward Sylvester, and Michael Nesmith, who recorded as 'Michael Blessing'. Outside of the United States, Colgems productions appeared on the RCA Victor label.Īn earlier label, Colpix Records, was dissolved to make way for the new company, and nearly all Colpix titles went out of print. RCA acted as manufacturer and distributor for Colgems.

The label would also issue soundtrack recordings for Screen Gems and Columbia Pictures productions.

JSTOR ( July 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this message)Ĭolgems Records was a record label that existed from 1966 to 1971.Ĭolgems was a joint venture between Screen Gems, the television division of Columbia Pictures, and RCA Victor to issue records by The Monkees and other artists affiliated with Columbia/Screen Gems.

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