Unusual Label Mates

[Stumpy Pepys]

A couple to start us off:

Bing Crosby and The Velvet Underground (Verve)
Mrs Mills and The Beatles (Parlophone)

[Jah Womble]

Toto Coelo and Karlheinz Stockhausen (Chrysalis)
Gene Vincent and Bill Oddie (Dandelion)
Flux of Pink Indians and Paul McCartney (One Little Indian)
Showaddywaddy and Notorious BIG (Arista)

[ursus arctos]

Georg Szell, Ray Conniff, Johnny Paycheck, Bruce Springsteen and The Clash (Columbia)

[delicatemoth]

I believe Paul Smith signed Sun Ra to Blast First (Sonic Youth, Big Black, Butthole Surfers, Ut) partly to annoy/blow the minds of people who claimed they bought everything on the label.

[George]

Lena Zavaroni and pretty much everybody else on Stax.
The Moody Blues and The Smurfs on Decca.

[wittoner]

Van der Graf Generator & Sir John Betjeman (Charisma)
The Nice & Jimmy Tarbuck (Immediate)

[diggedy derek]

Barry Manilow and Anthony Braxton were on Arista at the same time.

[Stumpy Pepys]

The Moody Blues and The Smurfs on Decca.

Weren't the Moody Blues on Deram? (I know Decca owned Deram, but Deram was their prog imprint.)

Lena Zavaroni and pretty much everybody else on Stax.

Fucking hell, I never knew that. Kiki Dee was signed to Motown, I remember.

[3 Colours Red]

The Revolving Paint Dream and The Jesus And Mary Chain (Creation)

[Stumpy Pepys]

Come to think of it, Big Star were on Stax as well.

[Jah Womble]

I think that The Redskins were on Decca, so maybe them and The Smurfs?

(Or 'The Blueskins', as they were known in political circles.)

[diggedy derek]

I believe Paul Smith signed Sun Ra to Blast First (Sonic Youth, Big Black, Butthole Surfers, Ut) partly to annoy/blow the minds of people who claimed they bought everything on the label.

That's interesting, now no-one would bat a flicker of an eye lid at free jazz rubbing shoulders with free rock.

[Sits]

Les McKeown, Sugarhill Gang, Siouxsie & the Banshees (Hansa)