Argo Records (UK)

Argo Records is a record label that Harley Usill (1925 - 1991) in 1951, the musicologist Cyril Clarke was established with £ 500 million in capital. First, there should be " British music, performed by British artists " are published, but also gamelan music and soon a wide variety of different sound recordings to jazz was early incorporated into the offer on the first independent label.

Due to financial difficulties, the label was acquired by Decca Records in 1957, but initially retained artistic independence. There continued to appear relevant new productions, about 1961 Noye 's Fludde by Benjamin Britten, plates of jazz musician Alan Cohen and Michael Garrick, but also folk songs by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger. In 1979, the label to PolyGram, but remained until 1988 continued artistic self. Since 1990, it acts as a sub-label of Decca in the classical realm; there also footage of Michael Nyman be published.