Universal Records

Background: Universal Records was founded in 1977 as WEA Records Philippines Inc. The company was the licensee of WEA in Philippines for 15 years, but the latter still decided to put its own office, the precursor of what is now Warner Music Philippines.

Note: This brand has nothing to do with Comcast Subsidiaries (e.g. Universal Pictures etc.)

1st (possibly only) Logo (1990s-????)

Universal Records

Logo: In an outer space background, we see the planet Earth fly in from the bottom left corner of the screen while rotating. While this happens, we see a large chunk of metal/stone fly in while flipping vertically. Afterwards, we see another piece from the left corner of the first chunk emerge and then attach itself to the first chunk to form a large U. After they attach, the background suddenly turns white and the U turns blue along with the globe and has a registered trademark symbol (®) on its side. The word UNIVERSAL, in blue, appear letter by letter (a la the 4th PolyGram Video logo) and RECORDS, also in blue, go up from the bottom of the screen.

Variant: A filmed version appears on Sige... i hataw Mo!

FX/SFX: The logo uses dated CGI techniques and for today, it's still bland. The music? Would have been made on MIDI, which still means cheap. It has good animation and production, however.

Music/Sounds: An orchestrated MIDI-like fanfare.

Availability: Common, perhaps. Can be seen in the company's videoke (karaoke on video) VCDs.

Editor's Note: None.