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 label is for their 45 RPM labels (the LP version had a silver diamond) for their international series dating from the mid 1960’s

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

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.  As I only have one record from this label, I am including this 1960’s era W & G 45 RPM single’s label here

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.