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MCA was founded as a music booking agency based in Chicago in 1924 by Jules Stein . MCA enterred the music business in 1962 with the purchase of the US Decca branch, including Coral Records and Brunswick Records. In 1979 it acquired ABC Dunhill Records along with its subsidiaries ABC Records, Paramount Records, Impulse Records, Dot Records and Dunhill Records. Chess Records was acquired in 1985, Motown Records was bought in 1998 (and sold to Polygram in 1993). GRP RecordsGRP Records is a United States jazz record company. GRP Records was founded in New York by Dave Grusin and Larry Rosen in 1982. Subsequently the company passed to MCA who used it for a time as an umbrella name for reissues from its holdings as well as for and Geffen RecordsGeffen Records was founded by David Geffen in 1975 (after having founded Asylum in the 1970s). Geffen was purchased by MCA in 1990 and is now part of Universal Music Group. Geffen has released albums by such influential acts as: Aerosmith Asia Audioslave were acquired in 1990. In the same year, the MCA Corporation holding company was purchased by the Matsushita groupLogo for the Panasonic brand Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Japanese: is an electronics manufacturer based in Kadoma, Osaka prefecture, Japan. It was founded by Konosuke Matsushita in 1918, with its first product being a duplex electrical outlet., since which its assets have undergone other sales. MCA is now part of the Universal Music Group.
In 1998, MCA was folded into Geffen RecordsGeffen Records was founded by David Geffen in 1975 (after having founded Asylum in the 1970s). Geffen was purchased by MCA in 1990 and is now part of Universal Music Group. Geffen has released albums by such influential acts as: Aerosmith Asia Audioslave by Universal Music Group.
MCA ran "RadioMOI" Music On Internet company.