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instead. By lowering promotion costs, Mercury was able to compete with the more established record labels, and thus became an established record label itself.

Beginnings

Mercury Record Corporation was formed in Chicago in 1945 by Irving Green, Berle Adams, Ray Greenberg, and Arthur Talmadge. The company was a major force in R&B, doo wop, soul,

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