i know there are hundreds and hundreds of different labels but does anyone have a favourite or favourites aesthetically speaking,the sure-shot label is one of mine and also celeste to name but two

I love the RIKA (Tommy Bush "I Don't Like It") label design and colours, and I love the US Black Issue labels of MGM & RCA

Has to be that one for me:

Any UK red and white demos.

Also some of the great Pama labels like Punch, Bullet, Escort, so much more imaginative compared to the oh so dull plain blues and blacks of most UK labels

i'll take this opportunity to correctly spell the word 'LABEL'

I love the Mar-v-lus explosion label.... Gordy "badge" Demos... and Brunswick Yellow Demos.

All black issues for me, love em, got ever so excited when i saw pete smiths Dean courtney [mgm] a couple of years back

Always liked white & red General American ala Velvet Satins, think it's the swirl on the turntable that does it, same applies to British Spark.

Love Blue Cat, Impact, Mel Brit's Fip ain't bad, like M-S (Eddie Hill) Stateside has something classy about it, especially demos.

My favourite has to be Soul Hawk, got a Jimmy Soul Clark 'winner' on that & would rather look at it than play it.

Cheers

Aid.

This does it for me.....the Rika is the most striking but alas, ain't got one!

Could some kind Soulie post a mint Tommy Bush so I can have it as a screen saver!!!

Edited December 14, 201113 yr by redkiteimaging

UK Deep Soul label.

UK labels with Gold writing, like London, Parlophone, Pye International, Chess, Columbia, etc

Sure-Shot all the way!

I would have to think about it for a while before coming up with the "best" but two really nice ones are Satch and Windy C

Sure-Shot all the way!

one of my faves mate

another totally awesome one is the cap-city label with the color drawing with the washington monument (I know there were a bunch of cap-city label designs but that one was amazing).

one of my faves mate

another reason the sure shot label was awesome was that it had the two guns on it and don robey was famous for supposedly having two guns on him all the time

another reason the sure shot label was awesome was that it had the two guns on it and don robey was famous for supposedly having two guns on him all the time

nice bit of trivia that mate

Used to have a thing for Roulette Black & White demos , actually make that most Black & white demos (Sad)

also like the Fee label

Cheers

Swifty

Has to be that one for me:

spot on..

may not be considered as exotic as some, but there is something bout Pink Decca demos. Other than that Old Town Demos just have that I want factor... Cap City on Pat Johnson is really nice, and I think Johnny Barnes has a slight label design change as well, which is magnetic!!!

USA records, what can you say, sound stage 7 black issues, Red Coach, Kapp Demos, maurci for the pink / white issues, and Musette..

MAL.C

Edited December 14, 201113 yr by Mal.C.

I like the Magic City blue issues with the Magic City in Multi-coloured writing. Like Thelma Lindsey, Bonnie Brisker and Cynthia/Imaginations.

Also like the Peacock label and Pzazz.

The Carmen label is absolutely beautiful with the pink and silver.

I love the simplicity of the compass label

Edited December 14, 201113 yr by Ernie Andrews

RCA Stockers,

Multi Coloured V.I.P.,

DERBY,

DESIREE,

CANTERBURY West Coast Promo's - so precise, perfect printing, glossy labelling.

I just love a plain local press, the less information on it the prettier it is to me.

The Tower label as per the design of 'World Column' (Issue or demo) immediately springs to mind for me!

Think it has something to do with looking down from the balcony at Wigan and seeing it spinning round on the deck and totally mesmerising me!

Corny I know but there are certain things that stick in your mind and that's one of those for me

I've hundreds more which I'm sure will come to mind very soon but that was the first!

The Tower label as per the design of 'World Column' (Issue or demo) immediately springs to mind for me!

Think it has something to do with looking down from the balcony at Wigan and seeing it spinning round on the deck and totally mesmerising me!

Corny I know but there are certain things that stick in your mind and that's one of those for me

I've hundreds more which I'm sure will come to mind very soon but that was the first!

Yep does it for me too !

https://www.popsike.c...70470069555.j

Also these Okeh Demo's as i have about 270 of them

https://.co.uk/images/large/LARRY%20WILLIAMS%20AND%20JOHNNY%20WATSON%20%20TOO%20LATE%20OKEH%20WD%20011%20%20LARGE.jpg

Edited December 15, 201113 yr by allnightandy

Keeping my Philly hat on I do like the Huff Puff label;

Arctic for me,simple but effective

Arctic for me,simple but effective

plus it has penguins which is always a big positive

Edited December 15, 201113 yr by boba

plus it has penguins which is always a big positive

Keeping my Philly hat on I do like the Huff Puff label;

that's a crackin' label

Here's a few more classics:

Regards,

Dave

Edited December 15, 201113 yr by Dave Moore

One of them, looks almost edible!!!

Sure-Shot all the way!

Gave me good enough reason to collect the label, then find out what was on the grooves

Sure Shot,Groovesville And the tri-colour La-Beat Labels.

That parrot/ cockatoo on the Shout label.

Maybe its because my second name is Peacock.......

Edited December 15, 201113 yr by nickp

the ex-wife liked a cockatoo

That parrot/ cockatoo on the Shout label.

Maybe its because my second name is Peacock.......

whoa, never noticed that.

it kind of looks like a toucan

how about the moonshot lable or the old red blue-rock lable

joe.

one of my faves.....

bem sole is an awesome label design

the ex-wife liked a cockatoo

have we got the same ex wife?

edit

Edited December 15, 201113 yr by Macho

whoa, never noticed that.

it kind of looks like a toucan

As in ' Toucan have a party ' ?

Swifty

Landa Coloured mmm

Swifty

Cat ....................... Gwen McCrae/Little Beaver etc etc

Cheers Paul

Edited December 15, 201113 yr by soul shrews

the ex-wife liked a cockatoo

reminds me of the old prefix.... any

Living my life as a ' boy named sue ', Nicol Peacock, nicole papa etc, when we found out that my wife was pregnant the name options Drew and Henrietta went out the window......

Mother Records & the Snarf Company!

Slightly off topic

but where are you getting your lable scans from ?

i used to use anorak i even had it bookmarked but now it's gone ,

unless he has set up under another site name ?

Thanks andy

Mother Records & the Snarf Company!

started collecting it, in the 8ts, just because of it monty python style graphics, top pick

aye its quality aint it!

nicked that image from popsike

I can dig loads of opinions on this thread, black rca's, red and white's, mar v lus ( one der ful is tasty too) but personally I've always been a sucker for labels with photo's of the act on them, ala, maskman and the agents, and the lovelites release to name but too. I started collecting a canadian house label on this basis, loads had black and white photos of the act on em, and had to get the lot! sad man that I am.