Record Label: Pye Records
Category: TV Show
Release Number: 7NX 8004
Produced by Jim Henson with the assistance of Peter Harris and Philip Cason
Recorded by Ted Scott and Roger Knight
Producer for Pye Records: Jed Kearnes
Remix Engineer: Larry Bartlett
Sleeve Design: Paul Chase
Orchestra Conducted by Jack Parnell
Musical Associate: Derek Scott
Starring Frank Oz as Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear and Jim Henson as Kermit The Frog, with the entire Muppet Audience
Side 1: Don’t Dilly Dally On The Way, Waiting at the Church
Side 2: The Boy In The Gallery, Wotcher Knocked ‘Em In The Old Kent Road
Copyrighted: 1977
The Muppet Show (1976-1981) was a half hour of music and mayhem from the creative mind of Jim Henson. and each week would have an international guest star joining in the madness.
Historically, there were three volumes of the Muppet Show released : Volume 1 (UK: NSPH 19, AU: SPLP 1502), Volume 2 (UK: NSPH 21, AU: SPLP 1527) and “The Muppet Show Music Album” (UK: PRAT 18613, AU: SPLP 1580)
However there was one final record, a 45 RPM extended play LP featuring four Music Hall numbers, three performed by Miss Piggy, and one performed by Fozzie Bear
This EP featured songs that originally appeared in the U.K. versions of season 3 of “The Muppet Show”.
My copy was an import EP, and as far as I know, was never released outside of the U.K.
For a history of Pye Records in Australia, go here
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the most hard to read record label?
The title says it all for my first poll in the “off the record” blog
Most of these labels had an eye catching design, but it usually meant it would be at the expense of the legibitilty of the label
Before I get stuck into this poll, I have learned that scanning labels usually ended up making the labels lighter (and as a result easier to read. I have now since learned to fix the colour balance)
the first (and oldest) label in the collection is the original His Masters Voice (HMV) label that was used from the 1940’s until the early 1960’s by EMI
the original label was a darker burgundy colour than this.
THE CARINIA COMPANY (1947-1987)
founded by Polish immigrants in 1947, and originally released recordings from Poland. The company expanded it’s catalogue to include classical music and recordings from New Zealand based Viking Records and of course, Audio Fidelity
for nearly all of it’s LP releases this was the colour combo used (red and silver. Although I have in my collection a version of this label in Black and Gold)
image number three comes from the Mercury Record catalogue.
This label dates from around 1981, and yes it’s the single “Stars on 45″
PYE’S PLUM LABEL
this one is a very rare label. The reason being any recording that was released on the Pye label in Australia would end up appearing on Astor’s Gold series, so labels like these are rare.
While I’m at it, here is Pye’s successor, PRT (after the license was not renewed by Pye in 1980)
(note to self: never use black text on a red and green label design
Late last year, I posted the label gallery of Hammard, and I noted about the “Aussie” label design. (in case you missed it, here it is:)
And finally, the record label of Hollywood studio MGM (this was used from the late 60’s until the mid 70’s when the label was merged with the Polydor catalogue (the Yin Yang seems OK, but was a little bit too dark-ish.))
this is the final list. Are any of these labels seem to be a little bit hard to read, or can you think of something I may have missed? If I have, post your suggestion in the comments below.
The poll is now open, and will remain open until 23:59 on New Years Eve 2010 (Australian Eastern Standard Time, 1:59 AM for the southern states (NSW, Vic., Tas.)
BTW, you can vote two labels if you so wish.