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Revised 4/7/11

PYE
UK Labels and Company Sleeves 1958-1980

Labels
Pye Nixa
Pye Nixa
Pye
45 Pye Rpm
7N 15096 - jul 1957
to
7N 15172 - dec 1958
7N 15181 - feb 1959
to
7N 15239 - nov 1959
7N 15242 - jan 1960
to
7N 15254 - mar 1960
7N 15256 - mar 1960
to
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 15447 - jun 1962
to
7N 15481 - nov 1962
7N 15454 - aug 1962
to
7N 15746 - dec 1964
7N 15566 - oct 1963
Oriole contract press
7N 15580 - jan 1964
7N 15582 - nov 1963
Contract pressings ?
7N 15749 - jan 1965
to
7N 15999 - nov 1965
7N 17000 - nov 1965
to
7N 17438 - dec 1967
7N 17422 - nov 1967
to
7N 17999 - oct 1970
7N 45000 - nov 1970
to
7N 45229 -  apr 1973
7N 17416 - dec 1967
to
7N 17505 - apr 1968
Silver lettering
Black lettering
Black lettering
Black/Grey
7N 45237 - 1973
to
7N 45399 - 1974
7N 45414 - 1974
to
7N 46198-1979
7P 101 - 1979
to
7P 111 - 1979
7P 112 - 1979
to
7P 198 - 1980
Label discontinued
Blue injection moulded
Red injection moulded
Disco Demand
7N 45385 - 1974
Occasionally
7N 45627 - 1976
Occasionally
DDS 2001 - 1974
to
DDS 2007 - 1975
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Sleeves
Range
Front
Back
Details
No 1
7N 15109 - 1957
to 
7N 15191 - 1959
 Slightly curved top  Inside glued  
No 2 a
7N 15192 - 1959
to
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 Reddish
   Slightly curved top  Inside glued   
No 2 b
.
to
7N 15446 - 1962
 Brownish
. Ref 53D  Slightly curved top  Inside glued   
No 3
7N 15447 - 1962
to 
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 Dark red
   Curved top  Inside glued   
No 4 a
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to
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 Red
. Ref 53B  Cut straight  Inside glued   
No 4 b
.
to
7N 15746 - 1964
Pinkish
   Cut straight  Inside glued   
No 5
7N 15749 - 1964
to
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Dark red
. Ref 53C  Curved top  Inside glued  
No 6
.
to
7N 17438 - 1967
Rectangles reversed
Red
   Curved top  Inside glued  
No 7 a
7N 17422 - 1967
to
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. Ref 53  Wavy top  Glued left/right  
No 7 b
.
to
7N 45229 - 1973
   Wavy top  Glued left/right  
No 8
7N 45237 - 1973
to
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   Cut Notch - high top  Glued left/right  
No 9
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to
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   Cut straight/notch  Glued bottom/right  
No 10
.
to
7P 111 - 1979

. Ref 53E  Cut straight  Glued bottom/right  
No 11
7P 112 - 1979
to
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   Cut straight  Glued bottom/right  
No 12
.
to
7P 198 - 1980
   Curved top  Glued left/tight  
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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