Company record sleeves

[Dave N]

Hi 

Looking for information on the following company records sleeves.

Ad Libs New York in the dark on  AGP, this record does not appear in the AGP Discography I have found on the internet, on release did it have a company sleeve and if so can anyone help with some idea what it looks like?

Are all the  AGP records from the same company or are is there two labels with the same name?

The other labels I can't seem to find sleeves for are Action (UK), AFO, Alaska (UK), Alithia, Alon, Argo, Artic, Atomic Arts and Audio Arts.

Can anyone help with information on the above.

Many thanks in advance.

Daven

 

[Robbk]

2 hours ago, dave n said:

Hi 

Looking for information on the following company records sleeves.

Ad Libs New York in the dark on  AGP, this record does not appear in the AGP Discography I have found on the internet, on release did it have a company sleeve and if so can anyone help with some idea what it looks like?

Are all the  AGP records from the same company or are is there two labels with the same name?

The other labels I can't seem to find sleeves for are Action (UK), AFO, Alaska (UK), Alithia, Alon, Argo, Arctic, Atomic Arts and Audio Arts.

Can anyone help with information on the above.

Many thanks in advance.

Daven

 

Argo was a Chess subsidiary.  While Argo existed, there were no Chess company sleeves.  They started at just about the time Chess changed the name of its Argo subsidiary's company name to "Cadet Records".  The first Chess sleeves were blue and white, and listed Chess, Checker and Cadet Records.  AFO Records were sold in Dover Records sleeves when they were distributed by Dover Records.  They were sold in plain white or brown sleeves while distributed by Sue Records.  AGP Records were distributed by Bell Records, so they were sold in Amy-Mala Bell distribution sleeves (e.g. "Distributed by The Amy-Mala Bell Group").  Audio Arts was also distributed by The Amy-Mala Bell Group, and so was sold in those covers.  When it was NOT distributed by Bell, it was sold in plain brown sleeves.  Arctic Records was distributed by Jamie-Guyden Distributors, so, they were sold in Jamie/Guyden sleeves.  Action (UK) had it's own company covers.  Alon was sold mostly in plain brown or plain white sleeves.  Alithia was mostly sold in plain white sleeves, but, for a short time, I believe they were distributed by Spring Records, and sold in Spring Records sleeves.

[Dave N]

Hi Thanks for your help Robbk, Once again shows the knowledge members have on here and makes me realise how very little I know. I can now try to source these sleeves for my records.

Daven

[Kc Jr]

I am a sleeve freak myself and this is a lot of good information....

[Cover-up]

On 28 February 2017 at 21:52, dave n said:

The other labels I can't seem to find sleeves for are Action (UK), AFO, Alaska (UK), Alithia, Alon, Argo, Artic, Atomic Arts and Audio Arts.

As far as I'm aware, there are no company sleeves for Action or Alaska...

[Derek Pearson]

For anybody that's interested in record company sleeves this website is invaluable - https://www.bigboppa.co.uk/45-sleeves/index.html

Derek

[Dave N]

Hi thanks for the information regarding the sleeves.

Yes KC Jr there are some nice sleeves and at present I am looking to sleeve all my records in the birth sleeves, its a bigger  task than I thought but the ones I have or have sourced look really good.

I do have the link above and lots of great information here on sleeves and label date changes, great help in my search,  the labels listed above as far as I can see have no sleeve details but RobbK's information on Dover Records is in the link and further research Dover has four labels, I searched Dover Records on Google and it is closer to twenty labels under the Dover group.

This is just the labels that start with A, working on B as we speak.

Thanks once again for the help, sure I will have information missing on B labels.

Daven