Collection: K-Tel​

Multinational budget record label.
Label Code: LC 2769 / LC 02769

[uUS vinyl pressings made after 1974 have a two digit code system on the center labels, identifying the respective pressing plants:[/u
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 = [l294000 (until mid 1981), / [l277410 (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 = [l448832
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

[uBetween 1972 and 1974, US vinyl pressings were identified by (mostly) single letter codes. Known identifications are as follows:[/u
[bA[/b = Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Los Angeles
[bG[/b = MCA Pressing Plant, Gloversville
[bJ[/b = Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Jacksonville
[bK[/b = Keel Mfg. Corp.
[bP[/b = MCA Pressing Plant, Pinckneyville
[bS[/b = Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Scranton
[bCRP[/b (alt. [bRP[/b) = Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute
[bVS[/b = Sonic Recording Products, Inc.

[uUS cassettes have a two digit code system[/u
02, 11, 39, 40, 41, 42, 48, 53, 57, 59, 62, 69, 69 & SR, 74, 81