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PYE
UK Labels and Company Sleeves 1958-1979

Labels
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Pye Nixa

Pye

45 Pye Rpm
7N 15109 - nov 1957
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7N 15238 - nov 1959
7N 15225 - oct 1959
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7N 15256 - mar 1960
7N 15256 - mar 1960
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7N 15446 - jun 1962
The Pye Company originally manufactured TV and radios. It entered the record business when it bought Nixa Records in 1953. In 1955, the company acquired Polygon Records (established by Petula Clark's father) and merged it with Nixa Records to form Pye Nixa Records with the subsidiary Pye Jazz Records, 
In 1958, Pye International was started. The company licensed recordings from American and other foreign labels in the UK.
In 1959, Pye Nixa became Pye Records and ATV acquired 50% of the label. The company entered the budget-priced record market in the 1960s, with first Golden Guinea, priced at a guinea (one pound and one shilling), and then Marble Arch reissuing older Pye material at an even lower price. Another, full-price, subsidiary, Piccadilly Records, was for new pop acts.
When the rights to the name Pye expired in 1980, the label changed its name to PRT (Precision Records and Tapes).
7N 15448 - jun 1962
7N 15448 - jun 1962
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7N 15743 - nov 1964
7N 15566 - oct 1963
Contract press
7N 15743 - nov 1964
7N 17000 - nov 1965
to
7N 15999 - nov 1965
7N 17438 - 1968
7N 17400 - oct 1967
7N 45000 - nov 1970
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7N 17999 - oct 1970
7N 45229 - 1973
7N 17416 - dec 1967
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7N 17481 - 1968
Silver lettering
Blue incection moulded
Black lettering
Red incection moulded
7N 45240 - 1973
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7N 45398 - 1974
7N 45385 - 1974
Occasionally
7N 45415 - 1974
7P 101 - 1979
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7N 46194-1979
7P 111 - 1979
7N 45627 - 1976
Occasionally
Black/Grey label
 Disco Demand
7P 113 - 1979
to
7P 151 - 1979
Label discontinued
DDS 2001 - 1974
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Sleeves
Range
Front
Back
Details
No 1
7N 15109 - 1957
to 
15191 - 1959
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   Cut straight  Inside glued  
No 2
7N 15192 - 1959
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 Reddish
   Cut straight  Inside glued   
No 3
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to
/7N 15446 - 1962
 Brownish
. Ref 53D  Cut straight  Inside glued   
No 4
7N 15448 - 1962
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 Dark red
   Cut straight  Inside glued   
No 5
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to
7N 15743 - 1964
 Red
. Ref 53B  Cut straight  Inside glued   
No 6
7N 15743- 1964
7N 17000 - 1965
to
7N 15999 - 1965
7N 17403 - 1967
. Ref 53C
   Cut straight  Inside glued  
No 7
7N 17403 - 1967
7N 45000 - 1970
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7N 17999 - 1970
7N 45229 - 1973
. Ref 53  Wavy top  Glued left/right  
No 8
7N 45240 - 1973
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   Cut Notch/High top  Glued left/right  
No 9
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   Cut straight/notch  Glued bottom/right  
No 10
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7P 101 - 1979
to
7N 46199 - 1979
7P 111 - 1979
 
. Ref 53E  Cut straight  Glued bottom/right  
No 11
7P 113 - 1979
to
7P 151 - 1979
Label discontinued
  
   Cut straight  Glued bottom/right  
Pye Records Group

PYE distribution sleeve
Delga
   Cut straight/notch  Glued left/right  
PYE distribution sleeve
  
   Cut straight/cotch  Glued bottom/right  
PYE distribution sleeve
  
   Cut straight  Glued bottom/right  
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Contact for corrections : erlmehl@online.no
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Thanks to Pete Nash, Essex, England for scans in this section
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Thanks to Douglas Hinman, U.S.A. for scans in this section
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Thanks to John Villanova, New York for scans and info in this section
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Thanks to Tony Dowsett, England for scans in this section
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Thanks to Ade Macrow, England for scans in this section
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Thanks to Ray Flight, England for scans in this section
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  Repro sleeves available from Big Boppa Records
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45 Discography for PYE Records from Global Dog Productions
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