K-Tel

Multinational budget record label. Label Code: LC 2769 / LC 02769 US pressings made after 1974 have a two digit code system on the center labels, identifying the respective pressing plants: 01 or 001 = Specialty Records Corporation 07 = United Superior Records 09 = MCA Pressing Plant, Gloversville 11 = Monarch Record Mfg. Co. 12 = PRC Recording Company, Richmond, IN 15 = MCA Pressing Plant, Pinckneyville 16 = Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Pitman 17 = Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Santa Maria 18 = Sonic Recording Products, Inc. (pre-1975) / Goldisc Recording Products, Inc. (post-1975) 19 = Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute 29 = Keel Mfg. Corp. (until mid 1981), / Hauppauge Record Manufacturing Ltd. (after mid 1981) 44 = RCA Records Pressing Plant, Indianapolis (their pressings used RCA Custom matrix numbers, i.e. F4RS- for 1976 or J4RS- for 1979) 70 = Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Carrollton, GA 74 = Electrosound Group Midwest, Inc. 75 = Allied Record Company 80 = Trutone Mastering Labs 91 = Hub-Servall Record Mfg. Corp. 95 = Wakefield Manufacturing Unknown: 02 (or 002), 47, 55, 56, 61 (probably Peter Pan Industries), 66 (probably H.V. Waddell Co., but needs to be confirmed), 69. Between 1972 and 1974, US pressings were identified by (mostly) single letter codes; known identifications are as follows: A = Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Los Angeles G = MCA Pressing Plant, Gloversville J = Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Jacksonville K = Keel Mfg. Corp. P = MCA Pressing Plant, Pinckneyville S = Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Scranton CRP (alt. RP) = Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute VS = Sonic Recording Products, Inc.