American. Big Tree was founded in 1970 by Doug Morris; it stopped issuing new material in 1979 and had disappeared from the WEA catalogues by 1984. The Big Tree label didn't appear in Britain till the 1976, nor did it hang around for all that long; though it did have a minor hit with England Dan and John Ford Coley's 'Love Is The Answer' (K-11296) in 1979. Its singles shared a K-10000 numerical series with those of Atlantic. They were manufactured and distributed by CBS initially, WEA having an agreement for both processes with that company. WEA took over distribution itself from April 1977, according to Billboard magazine.
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