Record labels

Sweetnighter wrote: Yeah, you're list is a little scarce of big name record companies. What about all the fusion shredders that recorded on Columbia too?

 

Good point - and I guess by Columbia you are referring to CBS (as the label was forced to call themselves in the UK), because EMI also had a Columbia label (issued SF Sorrow, early Floyd):

United States Of America

Blood Sweat & Tears, Chicago, Electric Flag - i.e. brass rock.

Santana

Its A Beautiful Day

Taj Mahal

Miles Davis

Mahavishnu Orchestra

Soft Machine

Amercian Gypsy

 

(Plus  the psychedelic bands acting as prog precursors; Spirit, Great Society etc.)

Plus handling Blue Horizon, hence Fleetwood Mac, Chicken Shack - Blue Horizon passed to Polydor by the time Focus released Moving Waves.

 

 

 

wallace wrote: Noo Charisma? Yer not battin' onna full wicket, are ye laddie.

 

Hey understood you here Wallace - and agree. How can you forget Charisma: Genesis, Van Der Graaf, Audience, Nice, (a Mountain album), Capability Brown, Alan Hull and Lindisfarne.

 

Then Decca/Deram: Moody Blues, early Genesis, Daryl Way's Wolf,  Caravan, Touch, Egg, East Of Eden, Touch, T2, Khan, 'Igginbottom, etc. .  (As mentioned at least 2 dozen times before check out: the 2002 sampler from Decca of prog and underground music, Legend Of A Mind. :

Disc: 1

1. Legend Of A Mind - Moody Blues 2. Screams In The Ears - Bill Fay 3. Suite No. One Giles, Giles and Fripp 4. Introspection (Part One) - The End 5. I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes - Ten Years After 6. Austin Osmanspare - Bulldog Breed 7. The Song Of McGuillicudie The Pusillanimous - Egg 8. Voodoo Forest - Johnny Almond Music Machine

9. Nymphenburger - East Of Eden 10. Once Upon A Hill / Put That In Your Pipe & Smoke It - Aardvark 11. No More White Horses - T2 12. Hello Hello (Single Version) - Caravan 13. Freelance Fiend - Leafhound 14. Nutmeg, Bitter Suite - Granny's Intentions 15. The Witch - The Rattles 16. Still As Stone - The Alan Bown featuring Jess Roden

Disc: 2

1. Maybe Someday - Human Beast 2. Chauffer - Black Cat Bones 3. Tomorrow Morning Brings - Pacific Drift 4. The Unknown Years - Zakkarias 5. Free To Be Stoned - Clark Hutchinson 6. Cemetery Junction Part One & Two - Room 7. Roundabout - Keef Hartley Band

8. Question (Album Version) - Moody Blues 9. Love Like A Man (Album Version) - Ten Years After 10. Jig-A-Jig - East Of Eden 11. Golf Girl - Caravan 12. Boulders On My Grave - Mellow Candle 13. Theme Song - Keef Hartley Band

Disc: 3

1. Hellbound Train - Savoy Brown 2. Stranded - Khan 3. The Rise And Dear Demise Of The Funky Nomadic Tribes - Thin Lizzy 4. Seafull - Trapeze 5. C'Lu Thlu - Caravan 6. Whiskey In The Jar - Thin Lizzy   Or EMI's Liberty and UA labels, as part demonstrated by the 2004 sampler release All Good Clean Fun: Disc: 1 1. The Intro And The Outro - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band 2. The Birthday - The Idle Race 3. Blue Narcissus - Hapshash & The Coloured Coat 4. Father Cannot Yell - Can 5. Mistreated - The Groundhogs 6. Futilists Lament - High Tide 7. Hurry Up John - The Idle Race 8. Be Yourself ("All Good Clean Fun Edit") - Hawkwind 9. Country Girl - Brinsley Schwarz 10. Daughter Of The Fireplace - Man 11. Street Songs - Help Yourself 12. Blankman Cries Again - High Tide 13. Velvet Mountain - Cochise 14. Strange Town - Groundhogs 15. Take Me Away - Colin Scot Disc: 2 1. The Seed - B.B. Blunder 2. Here Comes Mister Time - If 3. You Shouldn't Do That - Hawkwind 4. Let Me Take You Home - Gypsy 5. Our Captain Cried "All Hands" - Allan Taylor 6. Little Boy - Reg King 7. Manillo - Man 8. Paperhouse - Can 9. Cherry Red - The Groundhogs 10. Eddie Waring - Help Yourself With Deke Leonard and B J Cole 11. The Strain - The Bonzo Dog Band Disc: 3 1. Bananas - Man 2. You Had A Lesson - The Groundhogs 3. Home Again - Cochise 4. Reaffirmation - Help Yourself 5. How Sweet To Be An Idiot - Neil Innes 6. Razor Blade And Rattlesnake - Deke Leonard 7. Ejection (Single Version) - Robert Calvert 8. Living In The World Today - Neutrons 9. Iron Horse/Born To Lose - Motorhead 10. (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love And Understanding - Brinsley Schwarz 11. The Psychadelic Warlords (Disappear In Smoke) - Hawkwind 12. Out Of My Tree - Clive John 13. Unusual - Roger Ruskin Spear

7. Lady Fantasy: Encounter/Smiles For You/Lady Fantasy - Camel 8. Nights In Armour - Pete Brown & Friends 9. Propositions - Curved Air 10. Air Born - Camel 11. The Envoy - Darryl Way's Wolf

''Verve', 'Bizarre', 'Reprise',Discreet', 'CBS','Zappa' ,'Barking Pumpkin', 'Ryko' - that just about covers all the Zappa labels. (i voted for Vertigo though)

Edited by Richardw

Not only were Charisma home to VDGG (and Genesis, for better or for worse), but also to the great VIVIAN STANSHALL!

Also, I see no mention of Chrysalis - Tull's label for many-a-year, and also later GG. Oh well..

Charisma = Genesis/VDGG

Bollox to the rest

 

I decided to exclude Charisma records as to start a riot...only kiddin,i listed the 4 as i though they were the driving force labels to introduce the fashionable prog style at the time,i feel that labels such as charisma to be a then copy cat label even though it was home for such bands as Genesis,Audience & VDGG...My appologies,not!

Edited by Karnevil9

Karnevil9 wrote: richardh Bang a vote on Island records my friend...

I did!

richardh

Bang a vote on Island records my friend...

 

wallace

Whe you start speaking english i'll comply.

 

Manticore..ELP,PFM and Banco.