Heliodor

German label.
Label Code: LC 0765 / LC 00765
The Wolfgang Neuss and Wolfgang Müller from the movies "Das Wirtshaus im Spessart" and "Wir Wunderkinder" (both 1958) were released.

In the same year, Deutsche Grammophon bought the distribution rights of some US labels. Among the artists from that labels were several Rock 'n' Roll and Pop musicians, whose records had been released on the Coral. As releases of new material from those labels were not possible for legal reasons, those recordings were issued from June on with their own Heliodor catalogue numbers.

With well-known Rock 'n' Roll and Pop musicians like Polydor.

As the market for music in English was quite small in West in the 1950s, fewer singles were produced by Heliodor than on its sister label Polydor. Therefore, not many records from Heliodor made it into the charts.

The first hit on the label was the instrumental title "Chi Chi" from the studio band Ray Peterson made it to the sixth place with his title "Corinna", the the highest chart position ever for a Heliodor single. A little later Johnny Tillotson reached Number 38 in with "Poetry in Motion".

While the singles on Heliodor were exclusively pop music, their albums (recorded by Deutsche Grammophon) only featured classical music. These releases had a different logo. Until the second half of the 1970s, Heliodor mostly released older recordings from Deutsche Grammophon. Initially, they also published productions from Eastern European labels. Later, Heliodor reissued recordings from the US label Westminster with their own catalogue numbers.

When the Beat music from the UK entered the German charts, Deutsche Grammophon stopped releasing singles on Heliodor (1963/64). English pop music was mostly released on Polydor from 1965 on.

MGM, the US distributor of Deutsche Grammophon, also used the Heliodor label to release a budget series of Deutsche Grammophon recordings in the US that were pressed by MGM, whereas the full-price items were imported from with the original catalogue numbers and label. This budget line was introduced in February 1966, with 15 albums.