Philips/Philips records
Multinational
label.
Label code: LC 0305/LC 00305.
The philips label was created in 1950 by the philips phonografische industrie
N.V. (PPI), subsidiary of the dutch philips electronics company.
The label was distributed globally by philips' local subsidiaries or licensees.
In the US the label was introduced by mercury record corporation in 1962.
In 1972, philips became a polygram label. Following a reorganisation in the
early 1980s, polygram's classical music labels, including philips, became
part of the new philips classics productions division. From then on, philips
was mainly a classical music label and most of their releases used the philips
classics banner.
In france, the philips label continued to be used for pop releases well into
the 1990s.
In 1999, after seagram's acquisition of polygram, philips became part of the
decca music group limited in london. Since 2010, decca music group no longer
uses the philips brand as classical music label.
The
7 digits numerical catalogue numbers xxxx xxx were introduced in april 1970.
Any item with such a number is after that date. The six digit plus format
code xxxxxx-x catalogue numbers were introduced on selected classical CDs
in august 1982 for japanese release only. They did not appear elsewhere until
early 1983.
Words such as medium, deluxe and select are price codes and not part of the
catalogue numbers.
Printing
dates on French EPs of the late 1950s/1960s appear as "MY" or "MMY"
(e.g. 81=august 1961, 118=november 1958).
French
singles:
Prefix N+suffix F (1954-1957 until N 372.461 F), prefix B+suffix F (1957-1970)
-Yellow labels (1954-1958 until B 372.580 F)
-Light green/white or blue/white (1958-1964 until B 373.341 F)
-Dark green with mono (1964-1966 until B 373.861 F)
-Dark green without mono (1966-1970)
1954: 372.1xx, 1955: 372.2xx, 1956: 372.3xx, 1957: 372.4xx, 1958: 372.4xx
- 372.6xx, 1959: 372.6xx - 372.7xx, 1960-1961: 372.8xx - 372.9xx, 1962: 372.9xx,
1963: 373.1xx - 373.2xx, 1964: 373.3xx - 373.4xx, 1965: 373.5xx - 373.6xx,
1966: 373.7xx - 373.8xx, 1967: 373.8xx - 373.9xx/370.5xx, 1967-1968: 370.6xx,
1968-1969: 370-7xx - 370.8xx.
French
EPs:
S uffix NE (1954-1957 until 432.203 NE), suffix BE (1957-1970)
-Dark green or blue labels with minigroove 45 (1954-1960 until 432.505 BE)
-Light green/white or blue/white (1960-1964 until 434.545 BE)
-Dark green with mono (1964-1966 until 434.553 BE/437.249 BE)
-Dark green without mono (1966-1970)
1954-1956: 432.0xx, 1957: 432.2xx, 1958-1959: 432.3xx, 1960-1961: 432.5xx,
1961-1962: 432.7xx/434.5xx, 1963: 432.9xx, 1964: 434.5xx - 434.9xx/435.1xx,
1965-1966: 434.3xx - 434.5xx/437.0xx - 437.1xx, 1966: 437.2xx, 1967: 437.3xx,
1968: 437.4xx.
Rim
text on labels of german LPs urheber - und ... was replaced by alle urheber
- und ..." early 1977 (or may be late 1976).