Record labels

Manticore..ELP,PFM and Banco.

richardh

Bang a vote on Island records my friend...

 

wallace

Whe you start speaking english i'll comply.

 

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

I did!

 

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!

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Charisma = Genesis/VDGG

Bollox to the rest

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..

''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

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

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.