CBS Special Products

Special marketing and catalogue department of CBS Records, see also CSP. Sister label of Columbia Special Products. Often a manufacturer for TV advertised releases on 3rd party labels and/or mail-order catalog only releases. Was also a budget reissue and compilation label of its own. CBS Special Products was also used as the outlet for the promotional material services offered by CBS Records in the US, Canada, Britain and Continental Europe (i.e. bespoke company records, advertising picture discs, etc.). Among its duties was assembling and pressing compilation albums for telemarketing companies (i.e. Time Life Music, Ronco, Sessions) and various other companies for promotional use. Renamed Sony Music Special Products in 1991. Currently Sony Music Commercial Music Group.