45rpm Posters and Art Prints

For the record collectors digging for gold in the 45 bins

45 Adapter - Ska checkered

A nostalgic look back to the days when 45rpm vinyl singles ruled the music world.

vinyl adapter

Classic Ska vinyl design

Vinyl Collector // Retro Old School Design

Hand drawn swirls and curls on a tiny historic and vital audio device. Like Pantone chips 17-5104 and 13-0647 are for any colour process.

A nostalgic look back to the days when 45rpm vinyl singles ruled the music world.

45 rpm Records

A unique design for vinyl record lovers! It's only RPM but I like it... Kid wax

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Northern Soul 45rpm record

45rpm

A brief history lesson for the youngsters: Long, long ago, in a world before cd's, mp3/4's, ithings & interwebs. Music was pressed onto round black discs, with modulated spiral grooves. "Records" or "Vinyl" (the material most commonly used after the1950's) came in 3 common sizes 7", 10" and 12", with varying speed requirements 78rpm, 45rpm and 33rpm. George "Porky" Peckham (an English record cutting engineer) often signed his master discs as "Porky prime cuts" Pillows

Excello Records was an American blues independent record label, started by Ernie Young in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, in 1953 as a subsidiary of Nashboro, a gospel label. It recorded such artists as Lonnie Brooks, Lightnin' Slim, Slim Harpo, Roscoe Shelton, Lazy Lester, the Kelly Brothers, Lonesome Sundown, Silas Hogan, Arthur Gunter, Marion James, Carol Fran, Warren Storm, Tabby Thomas, Guitar Gable, and a spoken word sermon by Martin Luther King Jr.

Era Records was an independent American record label in Hollywood, California. It was founded by Herb Newman and Lou Bedell in 1955 as a pop, country and western, and jazz label. In 1959 Bedell sold his interest in the label to Newman. Era had a No. 1 hit in 1956 with Gogi Grant's "The Wayward Wind" written by Newman. Musicians with hits on Era include Ketty Lester ("Love Letters"), Larry Verne ("Mr. Custer"), Donnie Brooks ("Mission Bell"), Dorsey Burnette ("Tall Oak Tree"), Art & Dotty Todd ("Chanson D' Amour"), and The Castells ("So This Is Love").

Red Bird and Blue Cat were the brainchildren of songwriters Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller with help from old-time record-biz guy George Goldner. Formed at the cusp of the Beatles' arrival in the U.S., their success ratio was phenomenal, keeping the girl-group sound alive and actually extending it into the area of mop-top mania that had redefined pop music. Blue Cat Records (US) was a subsidiary label of Red Bird Records. It had a hit in 1965 with "The Boy From New York City" by The Ad Libs.

Northern Soul 45rpm record

Northern Soul adapter design and other merch

For dancers only!

Celebrating the mighty vinyl record!

Tower Records was an American record label active from 1964 to 1970. A subsidiary of Capitol Records, Tower often released music by artists who were relatively low-profile in compared to those released on the parent label, including artists—such as The Standells and The Chocolate Watchband—later recognized as "garage bands". For this reason Tower is often associated with the garage rock phenomenon of the 1960s.

Modernist Soul Collective

Design based on one of our favourite record labels

Modernist 45rpm

Starday Records was an American record label producing traditional country music during the 1950s and 1960s. The label began in 1952 in Beaumont, Texas, when local businessmen Jack Starnes (Lefty Frizzell's manager) and Houston record distributor Harold W. Daily (better known as "Pappy") decided to form a record label. The Starday name is a combination of Starnes' and Daily's last names. After four releases, former Four Star vice president Don Pierce was brought into the fold and the three men founded the Starday Recording and Publishing Company.

Northern Soul T-shirt and other merch

45ers

one for the vinyl headz

45RPM single with red label

1949 The birth of 45rpm

Central to M-Pac! is the Leaner family. By 1963 when brothers George and Ernie Leaner added M-Pac! as a sub-label to their One-derful! label, they were revered figures on Chicago's Record Row and beyond. They distributed material from labels like Motown and Stax and they attracted top talent. It wasn't uncommon for a WVON DJ to help the Leaners sign their newest discovery, or for their singers, musicians, songwriters, or producers to have Chess or Motown on their resumes.

Cute Vinyl Record Lion

Modernist Soul Label

Cute Vinyl Record Lion

Falcon Records was a record label from McAllen, Texas, that was instrumental in the establishment of tejano as a widespread musical style. Founded in 1948 by Arnaldo Ramirez, the label specialized in the rural norteño music which had been abandoned by the major labels. By the early 1960s it was clearly the leading tejano music label. Falcon was responsible for numerous recordings by Los Alegres de Terán, Chelo Silva, René y René, Roberto Pulido, and many other tejano and norteño artists of significance. Falcon's product gained international exposure through the syndicated television program Fanfarria Falcon. The label's activities wound down around 1990, and the recordings were purchased by EMI.