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    PYE or Pye Records is an independent British record label. It was first established in 1955 and played a major role in shaping rock 'n' roll and pop music...
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  • Pye International Records was a record label founded in 1958, as a subsidiary of Pye Records. The company distributed many American labels in the UK, including...
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  • number of high ranking roles at others such as GRT Records, Janus Records, Chess Records and Pye Records US. Schlachter is best known for his work nurturing...
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  • Pye or PYE can refer to: Pye (electronics company), an electronics manufacturer Pye Records, a record label Pye International Records, its subsidiary...
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    Kenny Ball (category Pye Records artists)
    Ball – Pye Records – 1960 Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen – Pye Jazz – 1961 Gary Miller and Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen – Gary on the Ball – Pye Records – 1961...
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  • Pye Ltd was an electronics company founded in 1896 in Cambridge, England, as a manufacturer of scientific instruments. The company merged with EKCO in...
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    Brotherhood of Man (category Pye Records artists)
    Kisses (Pye, 1976) Oh Boy! (Pye, 1977) Images (Pye, 1977) B for Brotherhood (Pye, 1978) Twenty Greatest (K-tel/Pye, 1978) Higher Than High (Pye, 1979)...
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    Long John Baldry (category Stony Plain Records artists)
    lived in Canada from the late 1970s until his death. He continued to make records there, and do voiceover work. Two of his best-known voice roles were as...
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  • with him in Knightsbridge, London. She took photographs for some of the Pye record sleeves and was responsible for the sullen look affected by the band....
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  • Cavern Club. Sandon moved on in February 1962 and the band were signed by Pye Records in mid-1963 when the Beatles' success created demand for Liverpudlian...
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    David Bowie (redirect from ISO Records)
    in his transition to solo artist, helped secure him a contract with Pye Records. Publicist Tony Hatch signed Bowie on the basis that he wrote his own...
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    1957. The Everly Brothers Career started in 1951. They signed to Cadence Records In 1957. Their first hit was "Bye Bye Love", which had been rejected by...
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  • Warner Records Inc. (formerly known as Warner Bros. Records Inc. until 2019) is an American record label. A subsidiary of the Warner Music Group, it is...
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    venture of GRT and British label Pye Records. In its early years of operation the bulk of Janus' acts were U.S. issues of Pye product. Its first major hit...
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    The Kinks (category Pye Records artists)
    unsuccessfully auditioned for various record labels until early 1964, when Talmy secured them a contract with Pye Records. During this period they had acquired...
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  • attempting to promote 45 rpm records over 33 LP records). The record label, which traded as Nixa Records, was acquired by Pye Records in 1953. Nixon's stepson...
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  • the All-Stars as a trio. On 27 February, the All-Stars recorded their first single for Pye Records: the original compositions "Country Line Special" and...
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    record company. A&M releases were initially issued in the United Kingdom by EMI's Stateside Records label, and then under its own name by Pye Records...
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    Donovan (category Pye Records artists)
    in 1965. Having signed with Pye Records that year, he recorded singles and two albums in the folk vein for Hickory Records, scoring three UK hit singles:...
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  • role in Potter (1980) with Arthur Lowe on the BBC. Corbett recorded multiple 45rpm records, most of which were novelty songs based upon the rag-and-bone...
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    Anita Harris (category Pye Records artists)
    star-studded event augured well for her stardom. She made her label debut for Pye Records with the May 1965 release "Trains and Boats and Planes", although rival...
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  • late 1960s by British music publisher Dick James. It was distributed by Pye Records in the UK, and various other companies around the world, including the...
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    Judith Durham (category Pye Records artists)
    spare time. This was given to W&G Records, which wanted another sample of Durham's voice before agreeing to record a Jazz Preachers' album. W&G instead...
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    The Searchers (band) (category Pye Records artists)
    the Iron Door Club and it was there that they tape-recorded the sessions that led to a Pye Records recording contract with Tony Hatch as producer. The...
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  • originally on Pye Records in the United Kingdom, and Kapp Records in the United States. Later, they released records on Liberty, RCA, Sire and PRT Records. Their...
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    Pugwash. He also had a career as a singer, releasing singles on the Pye Records label and worked as a disc jockey for 194 Radio City in Liverpool. He...
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  • International Records, a US division of UK-based Pye Records which had begun in 1974. The name was derived from the music group Prelude, which recorded for Pye at...
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    The Honeycombs (category Pye Records artists)
    Russell C. Brennan asked D'Ell, the Lantrees, and Pye to record "Live and Let Die", on the Future Legend Records compilation, Cult Themes from the '70s Vol....
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    acts, beginning by securing the American distribution rights to the Pye Records recordings by the Kinks in 1964. Reprise soon added teen-oriented pop...
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  • What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid (category Pye Records albums)
    the UK four days after his nineteenth birthday on 14 May 1965, through Pye Records (catalog number NPL 18117). Terry Kennedy, Peter Eden, and Geoff Stephens...
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