Labels Gallery – Astor Records

Posted by Bruce on February 3, 2010 in Labels with No Comments

here is the first of this month’s galleries, and today, I am posting the label gallery of Melbourne based Astor records. (c. mid 1960′s – 1982)

The label was originally a record division of Radio Corporation (not to be confused with RCA) manufactring record players, radios and televisions (the electronics division closed in the late 60′s)

the first two labels are their general labels for their international series dating from the mid 1960′s (the first one is for their LP’s and the second is from their 45s

the label’s design changed in the 1970′s to the following design below:

for locally produced releases, the following colourful design was used for both LP’s and singles

Latest addition: I have located Astor’s “Golden Hour” series which features a full hour of whatever the LP is about. The label appears here.

in 1977, Astor purchased the record label of engineering and printing company White and Gillespie (W & G records), many of their records were later re-issued by Astor using the above label design. (Because I have found a few more labels in the W&G gallery, it’s being moved to it’s own post.

A final note on Astor. in 1982 Astor’s back catalogue was taken over by PolyGram (now Universal Music) It is not known whether Universal still has all of Astor (or W&G’s) back catalogue of recordings.

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