American. Cotillion was a subsidiary of Atlantic Records; it started life in the USA in 1969. In Britain its records came out on Atlantic during the 1970s, except for a comparatively short period, 1976-77, when the actual Cotillion label itself was used. Cotillion singles shared a catalogue sequence with those of Atlantic over here, and were distributed initially by CBS and later by WEA. Manufacture was by CBS, as it was for most of the WEA labels for much of the decade. Cotillion's British releases appear to be typical late '70s American Disco records. From the spring of 1979 Cotillion was reduced to a logo on the Atlantic label, as far as the British Isles were concerned; it was during this merely-a-logo period that the company enjoyed its biggest successes, with Sister Sledge breaking into the UK Singles Chart four times during 1979-80. It did however reappear as a label in the early '80s.
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