Label Guide: Colgems

Colgems Records was a joint venture between Screen Gems, the television division of Columbia Pictures, and RCA Records, to issue records by The Monkees and other artists affiliated with Screen Gems. The label would also issue soundtrack recordings for Screen Gems and Columbia Pictures productions. RCA acted as manufacturer and distributor for Colgems. Outside the United States, all Colgems productions appeared on the RCA Victor label.

The label existed from 1966 to 1971 and was a direct successor of Colpix Records, an earlier label that was dissolved to make way for the new company. When the albums of Colgems' most successful act, The Monkees, started to sell poorly, the label was closed and folded into Bell Records, which itself evolved into Arista Records just a few years later.