Casablanca

Neil Bogart sold his remaining interests in the label to Dutch-German multinational record company PolyGram (which had purchased 50% of the label three years earlier) in 1980 after financial difficulties and poor sales performance seriously drained the company. Bogart soon after launched a new independent label, Boardwalk Records, but soon became ill. He died of cancer on May 8, 1982. That same year, PolyGram bought 20th Century Fox Records and merged its catalog into Casablanca, moving Leon Haywood, Carl Carlton and Stephanie Mills onto the label. The label stopped releasing new material (apart from movie soundtrack albums and later Animotion releases) in 1984. In 1986 it was phased out completely, although the brand kept appearing on catalog reissues. As its replacement, Mercury Record Productions, Inc. revived Wing Records.

In 2000, the name was revived for a joint venture between Universal Music Group and Tommy Mottola. In a Billboard article, Mottola said that he chose the name as an homage to the original label, but that there was no direct connection between the old and new labels. The present-day Casablanca is a part of Universal Motown Records Group.

Dating:
– Earliest releases can be identified by label rimtext reading "Casablanca Records, Inc., Manufactured And distributed by Warner Bros. Records, Inc." Repressings of these releases, beginning in late 1974, read "Manufcatured and distributed by Casablanca Records, Inc."
– After merging with Filmworks in 1977, rimtext read "Manufactured and Distributed by Casablanca Record and Filmworks, Inc." through 1981.
– In 1982, rimtext was changed to read "Manufactured And Marketed By PolyGram Records, Inc."