Criterion Music Corp.

In 1943 Mickey Goldsen joined the newly founded Capitol Records to create its publishing division, then called “Capitol Songs" (from start page http://criterionmusiccorp.com/ (2014-02-15)).

He Michael H Goldsen transformed Capitol Songs into Criterion in 1950, naming it after a Broadway theater (from http://criterionmusiccorp.com/about (2014-02-15)).

Santa Monica, CA, May 7, 2013: Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) has acquired Criterion Music Corporation and its affiliated entities, the family-owned and run music publishing company that, over the last seventy years, has built one of the most extraordinary collections of pop, country and jazz hits and standards (from start page http://criterionmusiccorp.com/ (2014-02-15)).