One of the things that got completely lost with CD's was the logo turning on the turntable, some of them were designed in this aim like the  Swirling Vertigo & Spiegelei :

 Harvest (Pink Floyd,BJH Quartermass, Eloy), the prog outlet of EMI, a green and yellow Yin &Yang kind of symbol

Pilz /Ohr  later fusioned to Kosmische Kuriere (Wallenstein, Mythos) nearly all  were recorded by Dieter Dierks, he must be the engineer who recorded the most Prog records in the early 70's,Logos were a mushroom "Pilz" and and an ear "Ohr"

Brain (Grobschnitt, Jane, Novalis) a head outline on green ground, later on it was coloured

Charisma (Genesis, VDGG)The madhatter logo is  my favourite

Deram (Curved Air, Caravan, Camel) was the prog outlet of Decca,boring name and boring logo, they had David Hitchcock as a house producer in the beginning

Nova (Camel, Satin Whale)was the follow up to Deram, a robot on a yellow and green ground

Sky (Streetmark, Ramses, Cluster)a small german label for Prog and electronic music

Bacillus (Nektar, Pell mell)a small german label for Prog

Vertigo (Gentle Giant, Gracious, Colloseum) in the beginning they got the swirling vertigo logo which was groovy on the turntable

Spiegelei (Hölderlin) another turntable logo : a fried egg turning slowly in the middle of the black vinyl

Chrysalis (Jethro Tull, Gentle Giant) butterfly on a green ground

Manticore (ELP, english sung records of PFM &Banco)the ELP label, Greg Lake saw the mythical animal first on the back of 3Fates jeans jackett ... one of my favourite

Virgin (Mike Oldfield,Faust, Tangerine Dream) two(?) young naked girls on  a dragon, became really big with Tubular Bells, changed to New Wave

BTW is this a Roger Dean logo?

The Vertigo Swirl was a pure delight to watch spin on the turntable but on side A only as Side B held hold of the track listing . Later Vertigo label had the Roger Dean spaceship.

Chyrsalis had a Green butterfly on orange background on one side and an orange butterfly on a green background on the other.

Harvest's colour were Yellow and green .

Kuckuk label (Out Of Focus , Murphy Blend) had a superb multi coloured label full of flowers and a Cuckoo (the bird) 

Brain had two sub section: one with the brown label and the Metronome (Jane among others)

Caravan was released in France on Kingdom records which had the label , a castle . Cool.

Alucard wrote: One of the things that got completely lost with CD's was the logo turning on the turntable, some of them were designed in this aim like the  Swirling Vertigo & Spiegelei :  Harvest (Pink Floyd,BJH Quartermass, Eloy), the prog outlet of EMI, a green and yellow Yin &Yang kind of symbol Pilz /Ohr  later fusioned to Kosmische Kuriere (Wallenstein, Mythos) nearly all  were recorded by Dieter Dierks, he must be the engineer who recorded the most Prog records in the early 70's,Logos were a mushroom "Pilz" and and an ear "Ohr" Brain (Grobschnitt, Jane, Novalis) a head outline on green ground, later on it was coloured Charisma (Genesis, VDGG)The madhatter logo is  my favourite Deram (Curved Air, Caravan, Camel) was the prog outlet of Decca,boring name and boring logo, they had David Hitchcock as a house producer in the beginning Nova (Camel, Satin Whale)was the follow up to Deram, a robot on a yellow and green ground Sky (Streetmark, Ramses, Cluster)a small german label for Prog and electronic music Bacillus (Nektar, Pell mell)a small german label for Prog Vertigo (Gentle Giant, Gracious, Colloseum) in the beginning they got the swirling vertigo logo which was groovy on the turntable Spiegelei (Hölderlin) another turntable logo : a fried egg turning slowly in the middle of the black vinyl Chrysalis (Jethro Tull, Gentle Giant) butterfly on a green ground Manticore (ELP, english sung records of PFM &Banco)the ELP label, Greg Lake saw the mythical animal first on the back of 3Fates jeans jackett ... one of my favourite Virgin (Mike Oldfield,Faust, Tangerine Dream) two(?) young naked girls on  a dragon, became really big with Tubular Bells, changed to New Wave BTW is this a Roger Dean logo?

What the f**ks a CD?

The symbol beside the "A" of the Atlantic label also was designed to give the impression of "movement" when the L.P. was played on the turntable.

"Special labels" for some L.P.s were also lost with the CDs:

One of most beautiful labels:

I think Vertigos logo is cool

Neon is a small label (much like Dawn) that released early 70's UK prog such as Tonton Macoute, Spring, Indian Summer and a few more>>> they were created by RCA after they let Jefferson Airplane have their own label called Grunt. They were created specifically for more progressive styles of music, but never survived past 73.

Dawn was completely independant and Island was Chris Blackwell's baby and did manage to survived for a long time

Vertigo was Philips, Harvest was EMI, Deram as you said was Decca/London. Those big record companies could afford a bit of a loss at first.

Virgin got extremely lucky with Tubular Bells (their very first release> sold millions) which went straight to the top and allowed them to do whatever they pleased after.

Charisma got bought but survived long enough mostly because of Genesis.

Original lp's of Neon and Dawn are expensive on the collector's market. Almost all Dawn and Neon catalogue were re-issued (some by Repertoire Records) on CD.

Alucard wrote: One of the things that got completely lost with CD's was the logo turning on the turntable, some of them were designed in this aim like the  Swirling Vertigo & Spiegelei :  Harvest (Pink Floyd,BJH Quartermass, Eloy), the prog outlet of EMI, a green and yellow Yin &Yang kind of symbol

Just in case someone is interested, this month's Record Collector has a special on Harvest label and the second part is foreseen next month (Floyd is in the cover too). It has a few related stories about Edgar Broughton Band or a favorite of mine, Beat Poet Pete Brown (Jack Bruce's lyricist in Cream) who had recorded a few worthy albums with his group The Battered Ornaments and his next one Piblokto. He later wirked woth Graham Bond

Great reading

Also had a special on the Vertigo label a few months back also divided in two parts.

"The Famous Charisma Label" or simply Charisma... I liked too much this label.