PRC Recording Company, Compton, CA

The PRC Recording Company, Compton, CA albums, compilations, singles and EPs, and live albums catalog with cataloged releases, editions, and label credits

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PRC Recording Company pressing plant in Compton, California. operated between July 1976 and June 1984. a.k.a. "PRC West" and "PRC Compton". This is the 2nd PRC Recording Company plant, the 1st plant is PRC Recording Company, Richmond, IN. -Identifing records pressed at PRC Recording Company in Compton, CA- • The PolyGram pressing plant code "26" will usually appear on the center labels of releases from Polydor, Mercury and any of their sub-labels or partner labels that PolyGram manufactures for. • A "PRC-C" or "PRC-W" etching will most often be found in the runout etching 'deadwax' of the vinyl. Note that any and all releases with "PRC" and "PRC-R" etchings do not belong here, but instead belong to the sister plant PRC Recording Company, Richmond, IN • It may be depicted as "PW" in Atlantic label matrix and/or "(PR)CA" in an Atlantic runout. • Many RSO releases have a "-CMP1-" matrix suffix without PR or PRC, but usually with the "26" on the label. • "PPW" in the runouts are from the period where US Columbia / CBS pressing plants were on strike. PPW stands for "PRC Pressing Plant, West". • A 29mm inner pressing ring, and a 69mm outer "ramped" ring. -History- This plant was opened in late July 1976 in conjunction with a west coast sales office in Hollywood, which opened in 1975. In May 1984, PRC president David Grant confirmed he was closing the plant by June. Production then shifted to PRC Recording Company, Richmond, IN with Compton's pressing equipment (7 SMT 7" presses and 20 Hamilton 12" presses, installed in 1979) auctioned off in July. PRC Recording Company was legally registered as a D.B.A. (Doing Business As), registered to Richmond Recording Corporation. Filed in California via Delaware as a corporation in December 1975 under the parent company name.

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Led Zeppelin · 1971

Studio Album

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac · 1977

Studio Album

A Night At The Opera

Queen · 1975

Studio Album

Hotel California

Eagles · 1976

Studio Album

Let It Bleed

Rolling Stones · 1969

Studio Album

Oxygene

Jean Michel Jarre · 1976

Studio Album

Beggars Banquet

Rolling Stones · 1968

Studio Album

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones · 1966

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News Of The World

Queen · 1977

Studio Album

Fragile

Yes · 1971

Studio Album

Exile On Main St.

The Rolling Stones · 1972

Studio Album

England's Newest Hit Makers

The Rolling Stones · 1964

Studio Album

Out Of Our Heads

The Rolling Stones · 1965

Studio Album

Grease (The Original Soundtrack From The Motion Picture)

Various · 1978

Studio Album

Thick As A Brick

Jethro Tull · 1972

Studio Album

Queen

Queen · 1973

Studio Album

Jazz

Queen · 1978

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Their Satanic Majesties Request

The Rolling Stones · 1967

Studio Album

Days Of Future Passed

The Moody Blues · 1967

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Queen II

Queen · 1974

Studio Album

Disraeli Gears

Cream · 1967

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Pyromania

Def Leppard · 1983

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461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton · 1974

Studio Album

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos · 1970

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Sheer Heart Attack

Queen · 1974

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Between The Buttons

The Rolling Stones · 1967

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Tales Of Mystery And Imagination

The Alan Parsons Project · 1976

Studio Album

Slowhand

Eric Clapton · 1977

Studio Album

In The Beginning

Genesis · 1969

Studio Album

2112

Rush · 1976

Studio Album

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra · 1977

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Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder · 1976

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Moving Pictures

Rush · 1981

Studio Album

Brain Salad Surgery

Emerson, Lake & Palmer · 1973

Studio Album

Magnetic Fields

Jean-Michel Jarre · 1981

Studio Album

Flashdance (Original Soundtrack From The Motion Picture)

Various · 1983

Studio Album

Blackout

Scorpions · 1982

Studio Album

Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow

Rainbow · 1975

Studio Album

Rising

Rainbow · 1976

Studio Album

The Long Run

Eagles · 1979

Studio Album

One Of These Nights

Eagles · 1975

Studio Album

Desperado

Eagles · 1973

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Love At First Sting

Scorpions · 1984

Studio Album

Spirits Having Flown

Bee Gees · 1979

Studio Album

The Cars

The Cars · 1978

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Chariots Of Fire

Vangelis · 1981

Studio Album

Ace Of Spades

Motörhead · 1980

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Blues Breakers

John Mayall With Eric Clapton · 1966

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