Editing Dot Records (section)

===Country music label===
[[File:Dot Records logo 1968.jpg|thumb|left|Dot's logo after Gulf+Western acquired Paramount. The Paramount logo was removed when Famous Music took over.]]

Two years after Paramount was purchased by [[Gulf+Western|Gulf and Western]] in 1968, Dot was rebranded as a country music label, a move which revitalized the label's chart presence, albeit on the [[Hot Country Songs]] chart instead of the [[Hot 100]]. Country artists on the label included [[Freddy Fender]], [[Roy Clark]], [[Barbara Mandrell]], [[Billy "Crash" Craddock]], [[Narvel Felts]], [[the Oak Ridge Boys]], [[Don Williams]], [[Tommy Overstreet]], [[John Wesley Ryles]], [[Johnny Carver (musician)|Johnny Carver]], [[Donna Fargo]], [[Red Steagall]], [[Ray Price (musician)|Ray Price]], [[Joe Stampley]], [[Buck Trent]], Sue Richards, [[Eddy Raven]], [[Diana Trask]], [[Ray Griff]], [[Ray Pillow]], [[Doug Sahm]] (formerly of the [[Sir Douglas Quintet]]), [[Joe Barry (singer)|Joe Barry]], and [[Freddy Weller]] (formerly of [[Paul Revere & the Raiders]]).<ref name="Dot"/> During the transition, Dot's pop back catalog was deleted and was transferred to the newly founded [[Paramount Records (1969)|Paramount]] label.<ref name="Dot"/>

In 1971, Gulf and Western placed Dot under the umbrella of the [[Famous Music]] Group,<ref name="auto1">{{cite web|url=http://bsnpubs.com/dot/dote.html |title=Dot Album Discography, Part 5 (1968-1973) |website=Bsnpubs.com |date=November 16, 2003 |access-date=May 29, 2014}}</ref> which included [[Paramount Records (1969)|Paramount Records]], [[Stax Records|Stax]] (until 1970), and [[Blue Thumb Records|Blue Thumb]], with distribution of [[Sire Records|Sire]] (now owned by [[Warner Music Group]]) and [[Neighborhood Records|Neighborhood]], originally owned by [[Melanie Safka]]. By 1968, Lawrence Welk had acquired his portion of the Dot back catalog and subsequently reissued the material on his own Ranwood label.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qwoEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22ranwood+to+release+21+Welk+top+sallers%22&pg=PA3 |title=Billboard - Google Books|page=3|date=April 20, 1968 |access-date=May 29, 2014}}</ref>

With the rest of the Famous Music Group, in 1974, Dot was bought by [[ABC Records|ABC]], which had tried to purchase the label years before, and renamed it to ABC/Dot Records, a name it retained before the label was discontinued at the start of 1978.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=piQEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22abc+records%22+%2B+diener&pg=PT2 |title=Billboard - Google Books |date=January 14, 1978 |access-date=September 20, 2010}}</ref> The ABC/Dot headquarters became the [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]] office of ABC Records.

[[File:abcdotrecordslogo.jpg|thumb|right|The ABC/Dot Records logo. The logo first read 'ABC/Dot' and the word 'Records' was added later.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bsnpubs.com/dot/dotf.html |title=Dot Album Discography, Part 6 (1971–1977) |website=Bsnpubs.com |access-date=May 29, 2014}}</ref>]]

ABC Records was then sold to [[MCA Records]] in 1979. MCA's Nashville division briefly revived the Dot label in 1985–86 for a series of one-off albums by country music artists such as [[Jan Howard]], [[Jeanne Pruett]], [[Jim Ed Brown]] and [[the Browns]], [[Carl Perkins]], [[Billie Jo Spears]], [[Porter Wagoner]], and [[Tompall Glaser]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KSQEAAAAMBAJ&q=1985+%2B+mca+%2B+nashville+%2B+dot&pg=PT90 |title=Billboard - Google Books |date=October 12, 1985 |access-date=March 2, 2015}}</ref>

The merger of the MCA Records and PolyGram Records families became the foundation for [[Universal Music Group]] in 1999. Currently, the Dot pop music catalog is managed by Universal Music's [[Geffen Records]]. The country back catalog is managed by the former Decca and [[Coral Records|Coral]] unit, which was rebranded as [[MCA Nashville Records|MCA Nashville]], except for those by Roy Clark and Hank Thompson (owned by their respective estates).

Randy Wood died at age 94 in his La Jolla, California, home on April 9, 2011, from complications after a fall.