K-Tel

Multinational budget record label. Label Code: LC 2769 / LC 02769 US vinyl 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 02 or 002 = Unknown 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), / (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) 47 = GRT Record Pressing 55 = Unknown 56 = Unknown 61 = Unknown (probably Peter Pan Industries) 63 = Unknown 66 = Unknown (probably H.V. Waddell Co., but needs to be confirmed) 69 = Unknown 70 = Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Carrollton, GA 71 = Unknown 74 = Electrosound Group Midwest, Inc. 75 = Allied Record Company 80 = Trutone Mastering Labs 91 = Hub-Servall Record Mfg. Corp. 95 = Wakefield Manufacturing Between 1972 and 1974, US vinyl 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. US cassettes have a two digit code system 02, 11, 39, 40, 41, 42, 48, 53, 57, 59, 62, 69, 69 & SR, 74, 81