MCA Records: Slick '70s Pop

Talent agency MCA bought record label U.S. Decca in 1962—though it wasn't until its various subsidiary labels were consolidated into MCA Records a decade later that the company established itself as a pop powerhouse. Through MCA, artists like Neil Diamond, Jimmy Buffett, Steely Dan, and Cher would go on to define the slick sound of the 1970s—these songs were among the label's greatest successes.