United Artists Records

United Artists Records was a record label founded by Max E. Youngstein of United Artists in 1958 initially to distribute records of its movie soundtracks, though it soon branched out into recording music of a number of different genres. In 1959, United Artists released Forest of the Amazons, a cantata by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos adapted from the music he composed for MGM's Green Mansions, with the composer conducting the Symphony of ... more
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