Over the next couple of weeks, I will be highlighting some of the record labels that will be appearing here, before I start digging into the archive, starting with Summit Records and Music For Pleasure.
This was the original budget record label (you were able to purchase these for as little as 99 cents), starting in Australia in the late 1960′s. In it’s early years, it was a division of book publisher Paul Hamlyn (as noted on the first MFP lp releases)
the label’s specialty included releases from some of the smaller record labels from around the world, and compilation LPs from the majors.
below are the labels for both Summit and MFP (the design was practically the same)
The first label is the original MFP label (which was seen in the mid 1960′s and the second label is from the late 60′s while the third label was from the 1970′s
the Music for Pleasure label
Update: 22/5/2010 I now have access to the rest of my library and will be posting the first release from the (until recently unavailable) collection in the next couple of days. My first new label is Music For Pleasure’s “Two of A Kind” series.
Update: 26/5/2010: Another label rears it’s head, and it’s MFP’s Non Stop Series
Summit Records
Summit also had a Gold series (the perimiter was a darker blue, and it appears here)
(Update: 29/1/2010)
Here is Summit’s Flair series label
Update: 6/4/2010
I recently found an LP which had Summit’s new logo (which appeared on Summit’s final releases) in their Flair series.
Update: 24/5/2010 New label found. The following is Summit’s Concorde Series
Two more labels to be added. The first is a Summit release in Association with Pickwick Records (UK)
and from Summit’s Gold Edge series
the company was more or less taken over by the Rainbow Music Group in the early 1980′s
by 1986, the MFP label was temporarily brought back in a series of CDs by Rainbow Products in a number of compilations.
Update: 31/5/2010: With the Summit Gold label added, I think I have now covered all of Summit’s variations. If I haven’t, let me know by sending a scan via my e-mail offrecord at brucelaing dot com.
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