Category: Labels


One Shot Labels 2 – Part 1

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Mar.07, 2010

Here, I will be showing you part 1 of a two part post on record labels that had not changed much during their years on vinyl (I’ll have a few more later on in the year)

The first one, is Ron Tudor’s Fable records.  This label did not change during the two decades their titles were released on vinyl:

 

Today, Fable’s music publishing division specialise in production music

Next in our labels gallery is the Select label of United Sound (1970-1971).  Around half a dozen releases were issued

 

Label number three is from Landfall Press, this time with the Peter Pan logo.

Finally, here is the label for the precursor to the J&B label, Dyna House (a number of titles released on the Dyna House label were re-issued years later by J&B

 

Like the J&B label, this appeared in a range of colour combos.

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Telmak Teleproducts

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Mar.01, 2010

Today, I am posting a labels gallery for Sydney (Balmain) based TV promotional record label Telmak Teleproducts, which was in operation between 1980 and 1986.

Telmak’s specialty included original compilation LP’s of classic radio shows (The Wonderful Wireless), greatest hits (Bill Haley and his Comets) and unusual releases (Murray Tregonning’s “Give ‘em Heaps” Sound Effects LP)

The first label was used in Telmak’s first year (1980-1981)

 

the second (and final) label was used by Telmak from Late 1981 until 1986…

a bit of trivia: the 1985 LP “Australian TV’s Greatest  Hits” was later re-released on CD by Pickwick Music Australia (despite the facts that the old Telmak logo still appeared on the front cover.)

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J&B Records

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Feb.22, 2010

Sorry about not posting anything new last week, but as soon as I got home from hols, I spent the rest of the week with the dreaded lurgi.

Today, I have a mini label gallery.  This one is for the TV promotional label J&B records

Over the two decades the label was in operation (1977-1997) they had two label designs for their vinyl releases.

Here is the first label design, with the later design appearing below this label:

 

 Incidentally, the colour combination for the J&B label does change from release to release.  Finally, here is the label of J&B’s Kid’s Name record Series

One final note.  the J&B record label was bought out in 1997 by home video company CEL and was re-branded CEL music.  the new label only had two releases.

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Festival Records Gallery – Part 1

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Feb.09, 2010

Today, I’m posting the second label gallery for this month, and it’s part 1 of Festival records label gallery (I have a few more to add,  but I’m including these in part 2)

I have LP’s and singles of Festival until about 1985 (when the company changed it’s logo.  I don’t know if they released records with their new logo after 1985 and by late December 1992 when they ceased vinyl manufacture)

the first label is one of the earliest labels they used for the company (I have one record from the early years (1952), but I didn’t have time to include prior to me going on holidays, but I’ll locate the label and include it in part 2)

 

the next label comes from the 1960’s.  I have also seen this label in another colour combo (light blue and silver for an EP.  This version of the label I’ll show in part 2)

in the 1970’s Festival modified it’s logo and the following design appeared.

Incidentally the characters naned on this label are more puppet characters than real people.  this recording is the puppet cast of childrens show “Shirl’s Neighbourhood” singing the show’s theme

Below is an (extended) version of the show’s theme featuring cast members of other Seven Network shows including “Cop Shop”, and an appearance by 1960’s childrens host ”Happy” Hammond  (He’s the one in the one in the checkered jacket and hat.  the only cast member not on this video clip is the show’s host, the late Graeme “Shirl the Curl” Strachan)

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Labels Gallery – Astor Records

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Feb.03, 2010

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.

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One Shot record labels part 1

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Jan.29, 2010

Amongst my new years resolutions this year is to post a minimum of 2 label galleries a month over the year (until I have more or less completed what I intend to post)

Technically my poll from earlier this month was the first lot.  Today, I am posting my second gallery and is part 1 of a gallery of record labels from companies that had a small number of releases.

 the first label comes from a release from record company Endeavour records

I have only seen one release by this company and it was the LP entitled “Reach for the Sky” by Apollo 100

the next label in the gallery is for Landfall Press.  The company had a number of releases between 1974 and 1977.  The following is their custom release label

In part 2, I’ll post a Landfall general release with the Peter Pan records logo. (probably in March)

the next label is for Melbourne based record label, Pisces records (which was released through Astor records (Astor’s gallery is coming soon))

In case if anyone is wondering, yes, it’s the same Johnny Young of  “Young Talent Time” fame.

Here is another one shot.  Impact Music Promotions only had the one release, a compilation LP of disco music (I however have a sneaking suspicion this was a one-shot release of K-Tel (as the address was the same as where K-Tel International had it’s offices at the time.))

and finally, a record company that had three or four releases before finally disappearing into the ether – Omega records.

the label is from a compilation LP of comedy and novelty hits (such as Rod Boucher’s “No Worries Luv”, John Williamson’s first hit “Old Man Emu” and Ray Stevens’ “Bridget the Midget”

 

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Hammard – Labels Gallery

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Dec.28, 2009

tonight, I would like to end 2009 with the first of a regular posting of record labels ((or, at least more regular than it was this year) and probably the first of the hard to read labels, more of which will appear in a later post)

the first of the galleries is for TV promotional record label Hammard (which was in operation between 1974 and 1990)

below is the first label (which appeared on Hammard’s releases from 1974 until about 1979)

The label’s design remained the same (although I have seen the label in either pink (as it was for the 1976 LP “Keep Smiling with Daryl and Ossie”) or blue (as it was for Sally’s second and final LP “A Day in A Life”)

by 1981, Hammard’s second label appeared (and is the first candidate for the first ‘Hard To Read’ label design (despite it’s patriotic design of green and gold.)

finally, the label introduced it’s third label design (which appeared on all Hammard releases from around 1982 until 1990)

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Music World (New Zealand)

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Nov.15, 2009

the New Zealand budget label headed by Houghton Hughes.  It was in operation in Australia from around 1980 until 1996 (in New Zealand, it had been around since the mid 1970’s)

In Australia the label was distributed by a company named Trans Tasman Productions (by the late 1980’s it became Music World Australia)

their specialty was in compilations and original recordings featuring recording artists as Tom Sharplin and Rhonda

the first logo above appeared on LP releases from the 1970’s.  Below is the label from this era:

and here is the label as it appeared in the 1980’s

by the late 1980s, the comany branched into CDs and Videocassette releases.

The last known releases by this company were released around 1996.

During it’s heyday, the record company was available everywhere in Australia, but by the mid 1990’s it was only available at dollar shops such as The Reject Shop.

 

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Hanna-Barbera Records

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Oct.20, 2009

Hanna-Barbera Records

This is the record label of Hanna-Barbera Productions (around 1963 until 1967).

Prior to the label being started up, HBP released a number of LPs under Columbia’s Colpix Records.  In the mid 1960’s the label was founded, releasing original productions, and adaptations of book classics starring the HB characters (not always with the original voice cast, for example, Paul Frees as the voice of Huckleberry Hound instead of his original voice, Daws Butler)

As far as I know, none of the Colpix releases were released in Australia.

Hanna-Barbera’s releases were originally released throughout Australia by Astor Records.  In 1977, EMI re-released a number of these records under their own label in the Drum series. (All LP’s listed here are the 1977 re-issues)

A couple of titles were re-released on cassette in 1981 by Rainbow Products (the most notable being “Huckleberry Hound tells stories of Uncle Remus”)

Below, are all the general credits listed on all HB re-releases by EMI in 1977.

Credits

Writer and Director: Charles Shows

Art Direction: Harvard Pennington

Hand Lettering: Richard Schaeffer

Mastering:Joe Leahy and Dave Diller

Songs Arranged by Al Capps and Stan Ferber

Original Music Arranged by Ted Nichols (from cues written by Hoyt Curtin)

Sound Effects/Underscore Edit: Milton Krear

Cover Art: Don Shepard and Bob Gentle

Recording Engineer: Richard Olson

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Hammard TV Productions

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Oct.20, 2009

Hammard TV Productions (1974-1989)

A 100% Australian owned TV record label, which was in operation from 1975 until 1989.

Unlike companies like K-Tel, the majority of Hammard’s releases were original releases (not relying on previously released material, although they would produce a compilation once in a while)

People who released records under this label included The Seekers, Daryl Somers (of which I’ll have more later on), Don Lane, The Sundowners, and many others.

The company originally started operations as the Hammard Recording Company, changing their name to Hammard TV productions around 1977.

Today, the owner of Hammard back catalogue of recordings is not known.

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