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That was my impression also. A few of the ones they have up don't have a 45 release at all, as far as I know.

was looking for Etta James Can't Shake It on Flying Witch Records but could not find it anywhere. now been told its a bootleg so it probably is a boot label

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Thank you for the feedback thus far peeps, and I concur with the sentiments about it being a 'bespoke' label as opposed 'official' given that it's 'output' appears (from my wife's digging at least, along with the comments on here) to consist predominantly of tracks that otherwise were either never issued on vinyl, or exist as studio acetates only. 

I think it's safe to say any 45's on this label design are simply carver type discs with a made-up label stuck on for aesthetic purposes - a cool label design it is too, I think at least. It seems the label is the conception of an individual from Spain(?), but an interesting (and clever) choice of name - when you delve into the origins for the term 'Flying Witch'. The resulting implication of which being that the guy behind it actually put considerable thought into his selection of it as a/his label name... Useless info really - but nonetheless interesting to this sad individual, at least (and obviously having nothing better to do with my time..) :rofl:

 

The Flying Witch in the logo appears to have been "borrowed" from the one they used in the opening credits 

of the U.S. TV show "Bewitched" in the early years of the program.

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On 18/06/2015 at 08:47, Mickjay33 said:

was looking for Etta James Can't Shake It on Flying Witch Records but could not find it anywhere. now been told its a bootleg so it probably is a boot label

It's DEFINITELY a bootleg label. It's operator couldn't possibly have bought the rights to issue all those recordings still under copyright by such a disparate group of labels with no connections. It couldn't possibly be even remotely profitable to do so.

On 18/06/2015 at 08:03, Chalky said:

I've never seen one in the flesh either, only on youtube.

I thought I've seen a few physical 45 records from that label, on a modern US-looking vinyl pressing. But my old memory sometimes plays tricks on me these days.

6 hours ago, Robbk said:

I thought I've seen a few physical 45 records from that label, on a modern US-looking vinyl pressing. But my old memory sometimes plays tricks on me these days.

If you have it is recently. The "label" was for the guys internet uploads on YouTube. Some may have done their own label on a carver?

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