Due to Warner's ownership of all rights to the film Casablanca, Bogart's adoption of the movie's name and title look for its records label logo went without legal objection.

The label's first signing was Kiss but its first single release was Bill Amesbury's "Virginia (Touch Me Like You Do)", a minor hit on the US Hot 100.

"Butter Boy" by Fanny and The Hudson Brothers' "So You Are a Star" proved to be Casablanca's first Billboard Top 40 hits.

The now-independent Casablanca Records was suddenly put in a tenuous financial situation as it still had yet to score a major hit album and no longer had the backing of Warner Bros. Casablanca was banking on the success of an upcoming album it was planning: a two-record set of audio highlights from television's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

[4] Casablanca eventually became one of the most successful American labels of the 1970s, signing and releasing records by such acts as Kiss, Donna Summer, Village People, Cher, Lipps Inc. (with lead vocalist Cynthia Johnson), and George Clinton's Parliament.

Also that year, one of the label's biggest acts, Donna Summer, departed to Geffen Records as she and Casablanca failed to agree on her musical direction for the future.

That same year, PolyGram pushed Bogart out of Casablanca due to what it viewed as the label's overspending and accounting irregularities.

In the early 1980s, with Bogart no longer heading the label, Casablanca had hits with acts Lipps Inc., Stephanie Mills, Cameo (on sister label Chocolate City Records), The Four Tops, Mac Davis and Irene Cara but it did not achieve the same level of success it had enjoyed in the 1970s.

In 2000, the Casablanca Records name was revived for a joint venture between Universal Music Group and Tommy Mottola.

The main single "Take Me Home" debuted at #25 on Billboard 200, although the albums were not critically acclaimed for running out of Cher's music style, it were well received by the public.

She also performed "Take Me Home" along with other two album tracks "Love & Pain" and "Happy Was the Day We Met" on The Mike Douglas Show.

Parliament was signed to Casablanca in 1973 due to Bogart's long-standing relationship with group leader George Clinton.

The success of Parliament allowed George Clinton to develop another P-Funk spin-off act known as Parlet.

Summer had several gold and platinum albums on Casablanca in 1975–1979 and was the label's most successful act on the singles chart.

Summer was called in the American press "The First Lady of Love", a name that she disliked but that Casablanca marketed with great success.

Village People is an American disco group best known for their on-stage costumes, catchy tunes and suggestive lyrics.

The group was originally formed by French producers Jacques Morali, Henri Belolo and lead singer Victor Willis following the release of the 1977 debut album, Village People, which targeted disco's gay audience.

In 1979 Lipps Inc., with Steven Greenberg as writer, producer, and musician, and Cynthia Johnson on lead vocals, signed with Casablanca.

[12] She released her debut studio album, Speak in December 2004, peaking at number 4 on the Billboard 200[13] and eventually earning Platinum certification.

He followed acts from fellow artists Raiden and Ksuke to perform his individual set on the 2018 Ultra Main Stage.

Britain's SG Lewis is an in-demand producer, songwriter, and DJ with an emotive, atmospheric approach to dance-oriented, electronic-based music.

Collaborations with vocalists such as Gallant (singer), Ray BLK, and Bishop Nehru followed, and Lewis released Dusk, the first EP in a three-part series dedicated to club culture, in 2018.

[25][26] Artists signed to the label included singer Randy Brown, the heavily sampled disco group 7th Wonder, and songwriter-author-poet Shel Silverstein, who recorded one album for the label—1978's Songs and Stories.

The new company became known as Casablanca Record and Filmworks, with Bogart still at its helm as president, while Guber became chairman of the board and head of its film division.

Although this resulted in hit albums and singles, the profit margin suffered due to the carefree spending by the label.

Casablanca spent lavish amounts of money on promoting its releases, which made its artists happy, but not necessarily PolyGram, which now owned a 50% stake in the label.

He used the money he acquired from the sale to start Boardwalk Records and he signed then-new rocker Joan Jett, who had experienced some success in Japan as a member of the group The Runaways.

(1981), the soundtrack to the movie Flashdance (1983), and the final three Kiss LP's on Casablanca: Unmasked, Music from "The Elder", and Creatures of the Night.

Dusty Springfield's sole release on Casablanca, 1982's White Heat, came and went with little notice due to the label's mounting internal problems.

Working with an international roster of both established and emerging artists, Casablanca has released music from Crystal Castles, C2C, Kavinsky, The Presets, Scissor Sisters, Chase & Status, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Ladyhawke, Elton John vs. Pnau and Kindness, Sub Focus, The Aston Shuffle, Martin Garrix, Avicii, Seven Lions, and Dawin.