By phillysoulman (205.188.192.187 - 205.188.192.187) on Friday, March 15, 2002 - 04:25 am:

Does anyone have any record label slogans such as
the Miracle label's slogan was "If it's a hit,it's a miracle" Gordy's was "It's what's in the grooves that count" There was a Philly label called Pearl Harbor and the slogan was "Our bombs are direct hits" Philly International was
"The message is in the music" Mighty Three Music had three elephants and a slogan that read "You'll never forget our tunes"
If anyonee has anymore let 'em rip!!

Eli

By detroit gal (205.188.196.31 - 205.188.196.31) on Friday, March 15, 2002 - 05:24 am:

Remember when Columbia Records had the ad campaign "The man can't stop our music" ?

Not a label slogan exactly, but ...

By david, glasgow, scotland (213.122.65.166 - 213.122.65.166) on Friday, March 15, 2002 - 01:04 pm:

good post bobby. there may be surprisingly few however.
pulse-the sound of baltimore
sugar-the sweetness is in the groove
phidan-tomorrow's sound today
front page-the sound of earthy soul
gogate-if it's not on gogate it's not a hit

more later hopefully

By phillysoulman (205.188.192.53 - 205.188.192.53) on Friday, March 15, 2002 - 03:22 pm:

Motown "The sound of young America

By Ritchie (62.254.0.6 - 62.254.0.6) on Friday, March 15, 2002 - 04:15 pm:

When Phil Spector was repackaging his hits in the 70s, he revised his slogan as "Yesterday's Hits Today" :o)

By phillysoulman (64.12.106.37 - 64.12.106.37) on Friday, March 15, 2002 - 05:15 pm:

Philly Sound Works (Vince Montana)
"Now that's the Philly Sound"

Bunny Records "Hoppin' with hits"

By Fury13 (12.2.196.17 - 12.2.196.17) on Saturday, March 16, 2002 - 04:14 am:

Fortune Records: "For Truly Great Music." It's right on the label.

By Mark Speck (65.58.51.201 - 65.58.51.201) on Saturday, March 16, 2002 - 07:29 am:

Pzazz Records--"Put Some Pzazz in Your Jazz".

Good topic, Bobby! This is my first post here, and I just want to say that I enjoy your past work!!

Best,

Mark

By BassLand (64.165.226.98 - 64.165.226.98) on Saturday, March 16, 2002 - 08:06 am:

GOrdy, "It's what's In the Grooves"

By phillysoulman (152.163.204.176 - 152.163.204.176) on Saturday, March 16, 2002 - 12:46 pm:

Mark, thanks for the compliment. Bassland, I already said that one.

By Ralph (209.240.222.130 - 209.240.222.130) on Saturday, March 16, 2002 - 02:11 pm:

Hey Bobby...how about " hidden " slogans.
When I was forming the Tera Shirma record label I decided I wanted a secondary label. One day the producer Carl Cisco, Fred Saxon, and Milan Bogdan were with me in my office as were trying to decide what to name this label.Carl said it should be MFH records. It would stand for Mother Fuc..ing Hit. He said the promotion guys could go to the program directors and say..." Here is a Mother Fuc..ing Hit! I looked at Carl like he was a little crazy and asked him what I would say MFH stood for to the more conservative public. Without skipping a beat, he pointed to Milan...M...Fred....F
and then after a very brief pause...me..and said.." Him " ..H So the MFH label was thus named.

By Ritchie (62.254.0.6 - 62.254.0.6) on Saturday, March 16, 2002 - 02:19 pm:

Ralph -

Not Soul-related, but your story reminds me of Dick James' label, "THIS RECORD COMPANY" aka DJM (Dick James Music).

His reasoning was that records were either hits (H I T S) or another less-respectable anagram of the same letters!

By John Lester (213.122.197.231 - 213.122.197.231) on Saturday, March 16, 2002 - 02:48 pm:

Trust me to bring up this Tamla slogan......like a right pratt, I used to use it on my letters. Didn't I Keith!!

Another one ..going places.

On those old red Motown bags...it said Motown the big sound

By Lowell (165.121.214.228 - 165.121.214.228) on Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 01:39 pm:

system test

By Ian W (213.122.30.85 - 213.122.30.85) on Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 02:33 pm:

Magic City - "It's Magic"

Ruby records - "The GEM side"

Ston-Roc - "The Motor City 45 rpm sound"

And last but not least - is 'Bomb' label Detroit?

Bomb - "It's How It Hits You That Counts"

Ian

By phillysoulman (64.12.102.161 - 64.12.102.161) on Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 04:35 pm:

I was gonna do a label once to release some unreleased stuff, and I was gonna call it
"Gonnif" records. That is a Yiddish name for thief. The slogan was gonna be "Your loss is our gain" and the label name was gonna be in Hebrew looking script and have a carricature of a little man running with a suitcase with money falling out!!! I still may do it.

By Ritchie (62.254.0.6 - 62.254.0.6) on Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 04:41 pm:

I always thought a good name for an "oldies" label would be Coprolite Records ;o)

By BassLand (63.207.60.24 - 63.207.60.24) on Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 04:49 pm:

PhillySoulMan,

Been trying to appologize for the repeat slogan for 2 days now LOL...

BassLand

By phillysoulman (64.12.102.161 - 64.12.102.161) on Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 04:50 pm:

TNT Records.....Its da bomb!!

Also, Hob should have used..A head above the rest!

By Ralph (209.240.222.130 - 209.240.222.130) on Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 08:57 pm:

Bobby...I've heard of TNT records. The rumor was a couple of idiots came up with that concept. I wonder?

By brianday (212.137.252.108 - 212.137.252.108) on Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 09:20 pm:

bobby i just fell of my stool laughing at "gonnif"
idea for a record label .its funny how these threads start of serious and end up somewhere else
it reminds me of when a load of dope smokers start
a conversation and it ends some where else ,brilliant

By Ralph (209.240.222.130 - 209.240.222.130) on Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 10:09 pm:

Well if the shoe fits Brian....

By brianday (212.137.252.26 - 212.137.252.26) on Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 10:31 pm:

i dont know what you mean ,this was all done in
name of research and development

By phillysoulman (152.163.195.184 - 152.163.195.184) on Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 11:15 pm:

Anorak records. Have a carricature of a bloke in a hoody holding a 45 up to a spy glass with a quizical look on his face!!!!!

By Keith Rylatt (212.44.18.3 - 212.44.18.3) on Monday, March 18, 2002 - 03:06 pm:

I think there must have been a lot of copying and spying going on in the early days as nearly all of my 45s have the same slogan - `UNBREAKABLE`.
Also I will never forget an ad on the back of a copy of Bim Bam Boom, it was from Art Mariano or someone for STEED Records, (the label has a picture of a horse rearing up) and he'd drawn a load of sh*t coming out of the horse into the dead wax and inked in a slogan `STEED..The rest of sh*t is in the grooves`.
Keith.

By david, glasgow, scotland (213.122.158.190 - 213.122.158.190) on Tuesday, March 19, 2002 - 01:37 pm:

ian i have 'bomb' on my detroit database. don't know how it got there however!

other labels with slogans:-
sue-the sound of soul
fling-blast off

By Phillysoulman (205.188.209.8 - 205.188.209.8) on Tuesday, March 19, 2002 - 03:00 pm:

All Platinum--The sound of New Jersey
Solar--The Sound Of Los Angeles Records.

By Ritchie (62.254.0.6 - 62.254.0.6) on Tuesday, March 19, 2002 - 03:07 pm:

Soul City - Soul as deep as you like - and then some.

(The British label, not the US one!)

By Joe Moorehouse (64.12.101.181 - 64.12.101.181) on Tuesday, March 19, 2002 - 03:47 pm:

"Hits Only" was the motto of Detroit's Satan Records (which I think only had one release, but it's probably my favorite label design ever).

By Ritchie (62.254.0.6 - 62.254.0.6) on Tuesday, March 19, 2002 - 03:48 pm:

Hi Joe

Methinks we feel a label-scan coming on!

By david, glasgow, scotland (213.122.19.119 - 213.122.19.119) on Tuesday, March 19, 2002 - 04:16 pm:

yes joe. any chance of seeing that one...please!

By Joe Moorehouse (64.12.101.168 - 64.12.101.168) on Tuesday, March 19, 2002 - 05:14 pm:

Not to be stupid about this, but how do I post a jpeg? Thanks.

By david, glasgow, scotland (213.107.27.25 - 213.107.27.25) on Tuesday, March 19, 2002 - 06:18 pm:

joe
anyone can upload an image. here's how you do it.

-ensure you know where your image is on your computer as you will be prompted for that information during the process.
-ensure that your image is less than 50k in size. it will refuse to upload if it's not.
-the first keystroke-i will spell (or the system will think i am trying to upload). here we go:-
backslash{name of your file}
that's all you need. '\' is the backslash key.
ensure you use the correct brackets.
-when you click on 'post message' you will see a colourful 'your image here'.
-click 'post' again and the 'browse' feature will appear.
-click 'browse' and find your file.
-click 'upload' once the name appears in the 'browse' box.

you will also find this info in 'get fancy' on the left of your screen.

let me know if you get stuck!

By david, glasgow, scotland (213.107.27.25 - 213.107.27.25) on Tuesday, March 19, 2002 - 07:20 pm:

i love this example of a record slogan sent in by graham. i've never seen this before. a classic recording, no doubt john will approve.
thanks graham.

By Joe Moorehouse (64.12.101.159 - 64.12.101.159) on Tuesday, March 19, 2002 - 07:53 pm:

Okay, here's an attempt at posting the Satan Records label.

By John Lester (213.122.191.230 - 213.122.191.230) on Tuesday, March 19, 2002 - 09:59 pm:

I am smiling like a cheshire cat........

Total approval from me here...

By david, glasgow, scotland (213.107.27.25 - 213.107.27.25) on Tuesday, March 19, 2002 - 11:49 pm:

i love the title.

what's the song like, joe?

By Joe Moorehouse (64.12.101.159 - 64.12.101.159) on Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 12:09 am:

David, it's a very high-quality funk record. Don't know if you can see the ZTSC # on the scan, but it's 12588, which I think makes the record 1968. The b-side is an instro of the a-side with a sax lead thrown in.

By recordboyusa (208.61.5.193 - 208.61.5.193) on Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 05:07 am:

Satan was a DEVIL of a label!

My favorite label design is PHIL-L.A. OF SOUL -- with a funky fishbone for the "fillet"!

I'm going to do a Phil-L.A. of Soul feature (with scans) on my web site in a few days.

Jeff Lemlich
http://www.limestonerecords.com

By John Lester (213.1.132.149 - 213.1.132.149) on Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 08:03 am:

Jeff.....fantastic ...

That reminds me...Fantastic Johnny C..Waiting for the rain......that was a wonderful record and one of the earliest Philly sounds that I bought

By Carl Dixon London (80.194.94.69 - 80.194.94.69) on Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 09:51 am:

I have than on the import and the Island UK release!!

By Eli (205.188.199.152 - 205.188.199.152) on Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 02:38 pm:

FYI, the "C" in Johnny's name was Corley.
The label was owned by Jamie/Guyden as their "black" division and started by Larry Cohen.
Does anyone have "Instead, how are you?" me thinks by the Creations but I am not certain.

By John Lester (213.122.197.233 - 213.122.197.233) on Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 11:17 pm:

Carl.....me too

Vocal plus instrumental and if there was a dub mix, I would have got that too....

Bobby - I don't know "instead how are you"

By recordboyusa (208.61.5.193 - 208.61.5.193) on Thursday, March 21, 2002 - 02:41 am:

My favorite Fantastic Johnny C track was on Kama Sutra -- "Peace Treaty" -- another wonderful Mike Terry track!

Although the label had PHIL. and L.A. in its name, four of the first seven releases on Phil-L.A. Of Soul were masters picked up from Deep City Records in Miami! They later picked up masters from some really tiny Miami labels, such as Saadia, Kangi and Shadow.

Jeff Lemlich
http://www.limestonerecords.com

By Mark Speck (65.56.59.196 - 65.56.59.196) on Thursday, March 21, 2002 - 03:42 am:

I know they picked up stuff from Clarence Reid, Helene Smith, and Joey Gilmore, but who else?

Best,

Mark

By david, glasgow, scotland (213.107.27.25 - 213.107.27.25) on Friday, March 22, 2002 - 11:24 pm:

'mr soul satisfaction' on sidra displays the slogan 'the little old hitmakers'

By david, glasgow, scotland (213.107.27.25 - 213.107.27.25) on Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 12:28 am:

here's another scan from a motown 'bag' that i hadn't seen before. thanks to graham.

By acooolcat (211.78.0.219 - 211.78.0.219) on Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 04:54 am:

Eli - the flip to "If Your Mother Only Knew" is a reissue of "Way Over There" - your 1st Motown 45 purchase I believe.
Graham

By John Lester (213.122.200.54 - 213.122.200.54) on Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 08:04 am:

Thats it...(see my March 16 post) Another one...going places I love that slogan.


Graham...I suspect Bobby's first Motown purchase was Tamla 54028 (Spring 1960)...Tamla 54069 was August 1962.

By Dave (62.253.128.5 - 62.253.128.5) on Thursday, March 28, 2002 - 01:09 am:

I have this on "Rouser Records"out of Washington DC the slogan says,
"Why should the devil have all the good times" with a little picture of the devil.
Dave..

By tricky (195.92.168.166 - 195.92.168.166) on Wednesday, August 07, 2002 - 09:08 pm:

how about the motown subsid weed.
all your favourite artists are on weed? i only know the chris clark album cc rides again on the label but she did ok rising to vice president status at motown.

By Ralph (209.240.222.130 - 209.240.222.130) on Wednesday, August 07, 2002 - 11:44 pm:

Generally, most of us at Motown at the time thought that the Weed thing was pretty corny. If I remember correctly, it was Berry's idea.

By Flynny (213.1.129.35 - 213.1.129.35) on Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 06:05 pm:

I've had the following advertising card shrink-wrapped onto US Motown LPs -
"Records are a sound purchase"!

By Flynny (213.122.202.157 - 213.122.202.157) on Friday, August 09, 2002 - 11:35 am:

Just thought of another one...Accident Records proudly state on their labels that, "If it's a hit, it's by accident!"

By Ritchie (62.254.0.6 - 62.254.0.6) on Friday, August 09, 2002 - 11:46 am:

presumably inspired by the Miracle slogan..?

By matt (208.130.56.167 - 208.130.56.167) on Friday, August 09, 2002 - 06:26 pm:

front page
"the sound of earthy soul"

By Joe Moorehouse (152.163.206.193 - 152.163.206.193) on Friday, August 09, 2002 - 06:53 pm:

Two more from Detroit labels:

Comma: Separates the BEST from the rest

Movement: The Best Move in Music

By Davie G (213.251.162.249 - 213.251.162.249) on Saturday, August 10, 2002 - 07:13 pm:

Bobby,

"Instead .. How Are You" - that's the Coalitions,
I think it was picked up by Jamie from some
one-shot local label ( ReRun ??)


Haven't heard it yet - maybe it'll turn up on
one of Jamie's CD compilations

By Davie G (213.251.162.249 - 213.251.162.249) on Saturday, August 10, 2002 - 07:51 pm:

Aesop's Label (from Minneapolis)

"if you drive, don't drink
if you drink, brush your teeth"


See what you can learn from reading
record labels ?

By mhc (172.145.185.123 - 172.145.185.123) on Sunday, August 11, 2002 - 05:49 am:

Demon Records, from the '50s, they had Jody Reynolds ("Endless Sleep", etc.) and The Olympics; that label's slogan was "The Highest in Fi". A friend of mine had a label in the '80s called Borrowed Records. Their slogan on one release was "Everybody's Got One"; on another it was "Fewest Returns in the Industry".