(Sometimes, it is hard to separate the quality of the pressing from the condition of a used record). I know Viewlex or whatever (which owned Buddah) owned the Sonic and Monarch facilities, the latter a highly regarded plant for visceral pressings, but I know I went through more than a couple copies of Superfly to find one that played well. I've certainly had issues with the Buddah/Curtom records from back in the day. This sounds surprisingly good though I'm not sure where it was pressed- I don't know if that Hauppauge plant was theirs at the time this record was made. I had a dim view of Pickwick from back in the day as a budget/compilation label. I recently picked up a Pickwick copy of Black Cat Bones, Barbed Wire Sandwich. They were pressed at different plants, though I can't remember without going to the deadwax, where. The Bell Windfall Mountain copies I have are noisy, but I'm not sure if it is condition or pressing quality I have half a dozen copies of Mountain Climbing! that I've sorted through quickly- and have yet to find two clean playing sides. Apparently known after 1975 as Peter Pan Industries (a 'PP' in the runouts that led to some confusing them with Plastic Products of Memphis - which had closed in 1976). They pressed a ton of London stuff from 1968 onwards (they were the 'AL' mentioned on the labels, leading to much confusion between them and Allentown Record Co.), as well as for Bell and successor label Arista. Then another firm that was hit and miss in terms of vinyl quality was Audio Manufacturing Record Co. In its Mercury days, they pressed their share of Monkees LP's on Colgems, and also one pressing by them turned up of Laura Nyro's New York Tendaberry on Columbia! Their styrene 45 pressings wore out rather quickly compared to, say, Columbia's, and their LP's vinyl sounded like a cross between Rice Krispies and a crackling fireplace. Labels that used the PRC plant in Richmond, IN (known from 1970-72 as Philips Recording Co., Inc., and before that as Mercury Record Manufacturing Co.), also fit into the category of the title of this thread. The owner of Bestway Products (which pressed the infamous copies with the label printed directly onto the record) also owned Bell up to 1969 when that label was sold to Columbia Pictures. The more halfway decent pressings were by Columbia - which is why I actively seek out Columbia pressings. In terms of their 45's, some of the worst was from American Record Pressing, so much vinyl surface noise that one could be forgiven if, in a blind taste test, they thought they were listening to a 78. Pre-1963, whoever pressed for Jamie (which distributed Philles to that time) also handled these future classic tracks.ฤก960's Motown was also a mixed bag. Obviously, Columbia was not amongst the plants that handled Mr. Both seemed to have a lot to be desired in vinyl quality. handled some of the East Coast stuff, I remember at least one 45 pressing on Philles from Premier Albums (they with the embossed, stamped large star in the deadwax that also handled Bert Berns' Bang label in its first year or so of operation). Click to expand.Had a lot to do with what was used.
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