Mercury Records

US

Mercury Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group . It had significant success as an independent operation in the 1940s and 1950s. Smash Records and Fontana Records were sub labels of Mercury. Mercury Records released rock, funk , R B , doo wop , soul , blues , pop , rock and roll , and jazz records. In the United States, it is operated through Republic Records ; in the United Kingdom and Japan (as Mercury Tokyo in the latter country), it is distributed by EMI Records .