1972 marked the year that David Gresham cut the ribbon and opened its doors to what is now the longest running independent record company in South Africa, The David Gresham Record Company. The company’s first producer was Robert John ‘Mutt’ Lange. Mutt later went on to work with Clive Calder of the hugely successful Zomba Records state-side. Calder was initially the A&R manager at EMI, South Africa, and at the time of establishment, EMI handled David Gresham Records’ distribution.

Now The David Gresham Entertainment Group consists of a full promotional, marketing and sales team with offices in Durban and in Cape Town, and with the head offices in Johannesburg. The Johannesburg complex hosts two full on recording studios.
The group also has a separate publishing division, which is the largest independent publisher in South Africa. The publishing division represents come 350 000 active titles covering the publishing for artists such as Black Eyed Peas, John Legend, Mattafix, James Blunt, Gwen Stefani, Elvis Presley, Quincy Jones to mention only a few.

David Gresham Records proudly represents record labels from all over the world for the South African territory including Roadrunner Records, Wagram, E1 Records, Victory Records, Chic Flowers, Ego Music, Mostiko, CNR, CMR to name a few.
The company also has a separate DVD movie division, and a separate import division, including the largest chill out/lounge series Hotel Costes and Buddha Bar.

Gresham Records has become synonymous with rock, yet continues to satisfy every musical taste from dance to pop to MOR to classical and, more recently afro/pop, traditional and kwaito.

David Gresham Biography. Gruesome Gresh commenced his broadcast career on LM Radio followed by Radio Highveld.
The famous such saying “Keep your feet on the ground and reach for the stars” was heard on the South African favourites such as TV’s Pop Shop, the Top Twenty Hit Parade, the Daily Drive Show on Springbok Radio and the breakfast shows on 5FM (then Radio Five). From there he went to LM Radio in Mozambique and also stayed there for a further three years.

In 1969, the only South African DJ to be offered an interview with Beatles member, John Lennon was David Gresham who received an apology to Springbok Radio and their listeners for the remark he made ‘that the Beatles were more popular than Christ’

Other artists that David was fortunate to interview and introduce to the South African listeners include: Ringo Starr, Tom Jones, Elton John, Bryan Ferry, Kenny Rogers, Engelbert Humperdinck, The Bee Gee’s, Robin Gibb (in a separate interview), Lulu (who was married to Morris Gibb), Anne Margaret and Petula Clark and many more.

International acts that have been licensed to The David Gresham Record Company include: Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Ace of Base, Moby, Garbage and Nickelback – the list goes on.

David has always been pro-South African from his very first days on radio. In fact, the saying “Local is Lekker” was first broadcast on The David Gresham Show. It was used by Peter Feldman who was presenting his regular “Pop News” insert on David’s show!!