Tetragrammaton Records

Subsidiary label and company of The Campbell, Silver, Cosby Corporation, founded in 1968 by Bill Cosby, his manager Roy Silver and partner Bruce Post Campbell. The name references a term for the un-nameable name of God. The label released Deep Purple's albums in the US as well as a double album by Cosby and material by Pat Boone, Lalo Schifrin and the Kingston Trio. In collaboration with Apple Records, Tetragrammaton pressed and distributed John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Unfinished Music No. 1. Two Virgins LP after Capitol Records refused to release it in America due to the nude cover. The label went bankrupt and closed in 1970. Deep Purple was moved to parent label Warner Bros. Records immediately after Tetragrammaton's collapse. Much of the back catalog was reissued on LP and CD in the late Eighties and early Nineties by a label called Creative Sounds Ltd. and its subsidiary Rock Classics but these were of substandard quality dubbed from vinyl records. California company number: 0541311 Registered: 26 February 1968