12/17/2008 8:51:41 AM
Coloured Vinyl - do you remember and do you have any

12/17/2008 8:51:41 AM

Coloured Vinyl - do you remember and do you have any
In 1976 I bought a numbered edition of The Streetwalkers 'Red Card' printed in red vinyl. Coloured vinyl seemed quite rare then. Does anyone know when it all started and with which albums?

12/17/2008 8:58:11 AM

Yes, I've got a edition of a great blues album, by Luisiana Red and Sugar Blue on ... yellow Vinyl.

12/17/2008 9:03:36 AM

Can't give you a definitive answer I'm afraid. There were a lot of coloured vinyl singles released during the 80's as a gimmick, but I know that from 1971 to about 75 a lot of records were pressed using recycled vinyl rather than virgin because of financial restraints so its possible that this was a way of disguising colour blemishes. I have a Stones bootleg from 1974 that is clear with red streaks that appear to run across the record apparently. An 'in' joke was that this was Keith's blood.

12/17/2008 9:22:12 AM ---- Updated 12/17/2008 9:40:58 AM

Colored Vinyl was around way before that .... I mean before the record corporates used it for promo ...

I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure it was first used in children's records ... I have several of them that were produced in the mid '60 era ... Red, Yellow, Blue and a few other colors as well ...

of course that was just a different set of corporate record companies ... but you see what I mean ...


Some even stranger records I have are 2 Beatles Christmas singles that my sister got as a member of their fan club ... I think they are "67 and "68 ... they are on "paper thin" vinyl ... you can fold them in half, or kind of crumple them and they spring right back into shape .... and they played fine ... 45 size but they play at 33 1/3 ...

12/17/2008 10:04:47 AM

I doubt if vinyl was coloured to hide blemishes, it's not naturaly black, so they would just color it black to hide blemishes by that logic.

It's only black for historic reasons, it replaced black shellac discs (or what evr 78s and very early LP's were made out of)

12/17/2008 10:34:56 AM

Yup - we got some - & some picture discs too! Streetwalkers were an awesome band live - seen 'em lotsa times and they always delivered!

: )

12/17/2008 12:36:03 PM

I have several,
Jimi Hendrix and Johnny Winter jam session on orange vinyl
Jimi Hendrix live at the LA forum on blue vinyl.
Jimi Hendrix out takes and interview from the British recording sessions on red vinyl
Led Zepplin live on a colored vinyl picture disk
Aerosmith Live on Yellow vinyl
I have a Rush Hemisphers picture disc issue by Polygram to it's top distributors for gold record status.
most of these came from a record shop in old Denver on Pearl street called "bootleg records". that was the only record store I knew in the 70s and early 80s,.. just a few blocks from my house.

12/19/2008 5:50:01 AM

My older brother had 78's from the late forties in blue red and yellow.

I remember listening to them many, many moons ago.

12/19/2008 9:46:43 AM

I have an old promo rainbow vinyl test pressing of some Benny Goodman album that was on Chess Records. (My mom's family was good friends with the Chesses back in the 50's.) That's probably the coolest/rarest thing that I have.

I also have a Flaming Lips album on translucent green vinyl; Rancid's "Let's Go" on double 10" white vinyl; and I'm sure a few other things, too.

        �2015-16 IndieMusicPeople.com      All Rights Reserved