Evolution Records

Evolution Records was a record label operated by the Stereo Dimension Records subsidiary of the Longines Symphonette Society, a unit of the Longines watch company.^[1][2] It was founded in 1969 as the retail arm of the mail-order Longines Symphonette Society, which typically issued box sets of old radio shows, such as a two-record set of Orson Welles's 1938 Mercury Theatre on the Air production of "The War of the Worlds", or traditional pop songs. Loren Becker was the president of the label.^[3] In 1973 the label made a concerted effort to break into the soul music genre.^[4]

The Canadian rock group Lighthouse earned Evolution its first gold record.^[5] Evolution sold Lighthouse's contract to Polydor Records, but retained rights to material originally issued on Evolution.^[3]

Longines exited the record business in 1975.

Artists

• Bloontz^[6]
• Dorothea Joyce^[7]
• Lighthouse
• Richard Sarstedt^[8]
• Steel River^[2]