Collection: K-Tel​

Compilations from this multinational budget label, nearly all pressed in Canada, run from 22 Explosive Hits - Volume Two in 1972 to Breakdance in 1984. Disco Devil and Disco Motion track the dancefloor years, while Night Moves (Approche Professionnelle De La Danse Disco) and Nanette Workman's Disque D'or show the label's French-language side.

Profile:

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

Parent label:

K-Tel International (USA), Inc.

Contact info:

[u]1970s UK address:[/u] K-Tel 35-37 Sunbeam Road Park Royal London NW10 United Kingdom [u]1977 UK Address:[/u] K-tel House, 620 Western Avenue, London W3 United Kingdom

K-Tel at Rectangle Triangle — over 20 records, mostly LP, 1972–1983.

Styles in this crate: Disco, Pop Rock, Classic Rock, Soft Rock.

Labels represented include K-Tel, K-tel.

These records live at the shop on Rue Atateken in Montréal; anything marked sold stays listed for reference. Every record is graded to the Goldmine standard. We ship worldwide, or you can pick up in store.