'''Nixa Record Company Ltd.''' was founded in [[1950]] by [[F. H. B. Nixon]]. Nixa was the second company, after [[Decca Records|Decca]], in Britain to release [[LP records]]. At the time, [[EMI]] was attempting to promote 45 rpm records over 33 LP records. The record label, which traded as ''Nixa Records'', was acquired by [[Pye]] in [[1953]].

Nixon's stepson, John M Reid (then also known as Nixon) was manager from 1950 until the company was sold to Pye in [[1953]]. Nixa Records was set up principally to market the catalogue of Compagnie General dur Disque, Paris, in [[Commonwealth of Nations]] countries. The artists included, Dany Dauberson, André Claveau, and other continental caberet and jazz artists. The shellac records were pressed for Nixa by the Decca Record Company. Later, Nixa made licensing arrangements with a number of US classical music record companies, including, [[Period Records]], [[Concert Hall Records]], [[Haydn Society]], and [[Vanguard Records]] to manufacture and market their catalogues in UK and British Commonwealth. Nixa also made original recordings in England at the [[Walthamstow Assembly Hall]] of Sir [[Adrian Bolt]] conducting [[Gustav Holst|Holst]]'s ''The Planets Suite'', [[Vaughan Williams]] ''English Folksongs Suite'', and others. 

Their primary artist was [[Petula Clark]], who recorded for the label in both English and French from [[1955]] to [[1962]]. Many of her releases for the label were Top Ten hits in both the [[United Kingdom|UK]] and [[France]], with three of them charting at #1. 

In [[1987]], the Nixa name was reintroduced as a classical imprint by [[PRT Records]].

==See also==
* [[List of record labels]]

[[Category:British record labels]]
[[Category:1950 establishments]]

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