ABKCO Industries stock certificate 1977 (managed The Beatles and Rolling Stones) - orange cert

Interesting single color stock certificate with the vignette of the company name in orange like the border. Staple holes in the border from processing. Issued and cancelled. Dated 1977. Measures approximately 12 x 8 inches.

ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. (ABKCO acronym of Allen & Betty Klein and Company) is a major independent record label, music publisher, and film and video production company. It owns and or administers the rights to music by Sam Cooke, the Rolling Stones, the Animals, Herman's Hermits, Marianne Faithfull, the Kinks as well as the Cameo Parkway label, which includes recordings by such artists as Chubby Checker, Bobby Rydell, the Orlons, the Dovells, Question Mark & the Mysterians, the Tymes and Dee Dee Sharp.

Until 2009, ABKCO administered Philles Records and its master recordings, including hits by the Righteous Brothers, the Ronettes, the Crystals and others (via a licensing deal with EMI Music Publishing, which owned the Philles catalog since the mid-1990s).  ABKCO Records is currently distributed by Universal Music Distribution, which also controls distribution of the Rolling Stones' post-ABKCO catalog.

ABKCO is the successor company to a business that was founded in 1961 as Allen Klein & Co. Allen Klein was then a business manager specializing in music clients including Bobby Darin and Sam Cooke and, later, managed the Rolling Stones and the Beatles.

ABKCO Industries was founded in 1968 as an umbrella company involved in management, music publishing, film, TV and theatrical production. Later that year, ABKCO acquired the Cameo-Parkway Records catalog along with a manufacturing facility which the company later used to produce records by several of its artists, including the Beatles and Rolling Stones.

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