Entertainment For Lively Minds
I Love My Label - Quiz!
Posted by mojoworking on 27 November 2011 - 5:10am.
I Love My Label. So sang Nick Lowe on his Jesus Of Cool album back in 1978 (it was a bonus track, to be pedantic).
Anyway, let’s separate the nerds from the boys, the train-spotters from the downloaders, the iPod wallahs from the vinyl fetishists. Here are details of 20 famous record labels dating from the 50s to the 80s. All are well-known companies and there are no sneaky obscurities or long-forgotten indies here to try and fool you (although one label is represented twice, it must be said).
Some are dead easy and others are more difficult, but I'm sure you'll get them all.
Hopefully, this is Google-proof
Answers on my desk by Sunday morning please.
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10 and 19
IRS and Parlophone respectively. But I'm never any good at this kind of thing, so that's yer lot from me.
#10
was in there just for you Bob. ;-)
But yes, correct.
1. Apple
2. CBS
4. Reprise?
5. Philips
6. Vertigo
7. RSO
11. Island
15. Fontana
16. Deram?
17. Island
18. Harvest
20. RCA
And it's goodnight from him.
To sum up - all the answers
1. Apple
2. CBS
3. Capricorn Records
4. Atlantic
5. Philips
6. Vertigo
7. RSO
8. Transatlantic
9. Blue Thumb
10. IRS
11. Island
12. Capitol
13. Vee Jay
14. Decca
15. Fontana
16. Deram
17. Island
18. Harvest
19. Parlophone
20. RCA
Is 8
EMI?
And 12 Capitol?
We're moving house soon, so all my vinyl is stuck in boxes in the spare room and I can't have a good ruimage to check. That is frustrating.
Not EMI
no.
Quite the opposite, in fact. By that I mean it's probably the smallest label of the 20.
But Capitol is correct.
4.
Atlantic?
Atlantic
it is
8.
Immediate?
A few gaps... but this is without cheating
1. Apple
2. CBS
3.
4. Atlantic
5. Philips
6. Vertigo
7. RSO
8.
9.
10. IRS
11. Island
12. Capitol
13.
14.Fast Forward
15. Fontana
16. Deram
17. Island (again)
18. Harvest
19. Parlaphone
20. RCA
8= Transatlantic? 9 = Blue
8= Transatlantic?
9 = Blue Thumb Records?
Yes!
Well done.
We still need 3, 13, 14
Right
14) ffrr was London's dance imprint: Full Frequency ? Recordings.
Full Frequency Range Recording
A spin off from the wartime submarine technology of a high fidelity hydrophone.
Unlucky 13
Not a clue.
3 has to be Capricorn Records
14 could be a Decca record label. I believe they used to boast that their recordings were "full frequency range". I doubt it's the FFRR record label who pinched the original 'ear' design.
Capricorn Records
home of the Allman Brothers and other southern rock outfits. Correct.
FFRR stands for Full Frequency Range Recording and it was used on the labels of Decca's early mono records.
On their stereo records they used FFSS - Full Frequency Stereo Sound.
Confusingly (and as Jolean noted) FFRR later became a dance music label in its own right, but it started back in the 50s/60s with Decca.
Yes...
I didn't think it was the label, but thought it had to be a Decca/Parlophone related label.
Vee-Jay
I think number 13 is Vee-Jay records (VJ).
Sooo close...
but pipped at the post. Vee Jay International to be precise.
Vee Jay
the first label to release The Beatles' records in America after Capitol declined to pick up the option from Parlophone/EMI.
That's all of them, then.
Great fun
I'd just remembered Vee Jay but it was too late to save the day. You can see who the early risers are in the UK (not me, having been kept awake by the weather):-(
What was the relationship...
...between the two sharply dressed gentlemen on the IRS and 2 Tone labels. Were they mortal enemies, estranged siblings, lovers?
Spooks?
IRS stands for International Record Syndicate, but was clearly also a tongue in cheek reference to the Internal Revenue Service, the American version of our Inland Revenue.
The father of label founder Miles Copeland worked for the CIA and this was possibly a factor in the naming of the label and yet another reason for the "spook" on the label.
As for 2-Tone, that was just a rude boy, innit?