I follow a blog called Copycat Cover Records, and recently they’ve been posting about certain budget label releases pressed by Pye that in strong light appear translucent, usually red or dark pink in colour. I first noticed this myself when cleaning a recent car boot Kinks double (Spotlight On The Kinks, PRT – SPOT 1009), which in the photo here looks purple, but in reality is a dark, blood red. Since then I’ve been noticing this effect in loads of records, all listed as manufactured or distributed by Pye throughout the 1970s. I presume this has something to do with the oil crisis, but a search of the internets has been fruitless. So really this is a long-winded way of asking: what’s up with that? I’m sure someone at the Afterword has the answer – is it you?
http://i1350.photobucket.com/albums/p773/minibreakfast/DSCN0155_zpszn7s2xq0.jpg
http://copycatcovers.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Pye
On a bit of a tangent (this is me, remember), for years I thought that my Nana used to work in a pie factory. Turns out she had a job in her youth assembling radio equipment….. at the Pye factory.
LPs on the Charly label from the 70s have the Deep Purple glow if you hold them to the light. Maybe they used Pye to press their stuff////
And there was a Pye factory in my hometown of Airdrie and I thought the same. Then I saw the Pye logo over the door and I was far more interested!
There’s a discussion about it on the Discogs forum:
https://www.discogs.com/forum/thread/395539
Ooh, ta!