john mayer released his first kraken with columbia records
 the 1970s  catalog numbers the columbia album series began in 1951 with album gl500 cl500 and reached an awkward milestone in 1970 when the stereo numbering sequence reached cs9999 assigned to the patti page album honey come back
 miller quickly signed up mercurys biggest artist at the time frankie laine and discovered several of the decades biggest recording stars including tony bennett mahalia jackson jimmy boyd guy mitchell whose stage surname was taken from millers first name johnnie ray the four lads rosemary clooney kay lande ray conniff jerry vale and johnny mathis