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Multinational budget record label. Label Code: LC 2769 / LC 02769 [u]US pressings made after 1974 have a two digit code system on the center labels, identifying the respective pressing plants:[/u] 01 or 001 = [l=Specialty Records Corporation] 02 or 002 = Unknown 07 = [l=United Superior Records] 09 = [l=MCA Pressing Plant, Gloversville] 11 = [l=Monarch Record Mfg. Co.] 12 = [l=PRC Recording Company, Richmond, IN] 15 = [l=MCA Pressing Plant, Pinckneyville] 16 = [l=Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Pitman] 17 = [l=Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Santa Maria] 18 = [l=Sonic Recording Products, Inc.] (pre-1975) / [l=Goldisc Recording Products, Inc.] (post-1975) 19 = [l=Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute] 29 = [l294000] (until mid 1981), / [l277410] (after mid 1981) 44 = [l=RCA Records Pressing Plant, Indianapolis] (their pressings used [l=RCA Custom] matrix numbers, i.e. F4RS- for 1976 or J4RS- for 1979) 47 = [l448832] 55 = Unknown 56 = Unknown 61 = Unknown (probably [l=Peter Pan Industries]) 63 = Unknown 66 = Unknown (probably [l=H.V. Waddell Co.], but needs to be confirmed) 69 = Unknown 70 = [l=Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Carrollton, GA] 71 = Unknown 74 = [l=Electrosound Group Midwest, Inc.] 75 = [l=Allied Record Company] 80 = [l=Trutone Mastering Labs] 91 = [l=Hub-Servall Record Mfg. Corp.] 95 = [l=Wakefield Manufacturing] [u]Between 1972 and 1974, US pressings were identified by (mostly) single letter codes. Known identifications are as follows:[/u] [b]A[/b] = [l=Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Los Angeles] [b]G[/b] = [l=MCA Pressing Plant, Gloversville] [b]J[/b] = [l=Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Jacksonville] [b]K[/b] = [l=Keel Mfg. Corp.] [b]P[/b] = [l=MCA Pressing Plant, Pinckneyville] [b]S[/b] = [l=Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Scranton] [b]CRP[/b] (alt. [b]RP[/b]) = [l=Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute] [b]VS[/b] = [l=Sonic Recording Products, Inc.]