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{{Short description|American record label}} {{More citations needed|date=May 2014}} {{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music --> | bgcolor = #FFDD00 | name = {{color|black|ATCO Records}} | image = This_is_the_current_logo_for_ATCO_Records_(2020).jpg | image_size = 120px | image_alt = <!-- WP:ALT text describing the image --> | caption = <!-- a caption for the image --> | parent = [[Warner Music Group]] | founded = {{Start date and age|1955|07}} | founder = [[Herb Abramson]] | fate = <!-- explain the reason of the closing--> | defunct = <!-- year the label dissolved, such as {{end date|1990}} --> | status = <!-- leave blank unless "Inactive" --> | distributor = {{Unbulleted list|[[Atlantic Records Group]]|{{small|(US)}}|[[Warner Music Group]]|{{small|(International)}}|[[Rhino Entertainment|Rhino Entertainment Company]]|{{small|(re-issues)}}}} | genre = Various | country = United States | location = 1633 [[Broadway (Manhattan)|Broadway]], New York, New York, US | url = {{URL|atcorecords.com}} }} '''ATCO Records''' is an American [[record label]] founded in 1955. It is owned by [[Warner Music Group]] and operates as an [[Record label#Imprint|imprint]] of [[Atlantic Records]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uFrYsNvmrvQC&q=%22august+1955%22+%2B+atco+%2B+abramson&pg=PA68 |title=Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock 'n' Roll Pioneers |author=John Broven |page=68 |date= 2 March 2009|publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=9780252032905 |access-date=2016-01-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Galen Gart |date=1990 |title=First Pressings:The History Of Rhythm and Blues, volume 5, 1955|publisher=Big Nickel|pages=90, 91 & al|isbn=0-936433-05-1}}</ref> After several decades of dormancy and infrequent activity under alternating Warner Music labels, the company was relaunched by Atlantic Records in early 2020.
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