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'''Columbia House''' (formerly known as '''CBS Direct Marketing Services''') was an umbrella brand for CBS Records' mail-order music clubs, the primary iteration of which was the '''Columbia Record Club''' (later known as the '''Columbia House Club'''), established in 1955. The brand had a significant market presence during the mid-to-late 1970s, as well as the 1980s and early 1990s. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Columbia House operated a joint venture with Disneyland/Vista Records (an umbrella music company formed in Q1 1971 from a merger between the labels Disneyland Records and Buena Vista Records; later known as Disneyland/Vista Records & Tapes and Walt Disney Records), called Vista Marketing, Inc., which sold albums from both Disneyland and Buena Vista.