[kj] GEM label pressing history?

[Rheinhold Squeegee]

Knock-offs/Pirated/Bootlegs: No
Inferior sound: Yes
 
JEM pressed select import titles for distribution in the US and Canada. I usually ran across their stuff at those skeevy college record fairs where everything was $4
 


Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:55:21 -0700
From: drretro at yahoo.com
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] GEM label pressing history?





Thank you. Am I correct in seeing these were actually licensed pressings? When I was buying wax in the late 80s, the record store clerks told me JEM pressings were knock-offs and inferior in sound to the originals. 
J

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From: Rheinhold Squeegee <kjlist at live.com>
Subject: Re: [kj] GEM label pressing history?
To: "Gathering Gathering" <gathering at misera.net>
Date: Monday, April 11, 2011, 7:39 PM




 
http://rateyourmusic.com/wiki/Jem%20Records

Jem Records
 



Jem Records Profile
Headquarters: South Plainfield, New Jersey 
West Coast Office: Rosedale, California 
European Office: London, England 
Founders: Sire Records & Marty Scott 
Group Type: Independent 
Launch Year: 1971 
Closed Date: 1988 

With backing from Sire Records, the New Jersey based Jem Records Company was created in 1971 to manufacture, distribute and import recordings from Great Britain. By the mid 1970s, the distributor launched Passport Records and several sub-labels to form the Passport Records Group. With offices in the UK & US, the company began bankruptcy proceedings in 1988, leading to the close of the distribution segment and the Passport group. A decade later in January 1988, an identically Jem Music Corporation located at 303 Fifth Avenue in New York City had surfaced. With a focus on distribution of "historical classical music", it is not known whether this incarnation was related to the predecessor before it's closing in late 2002.

 

Jem Distributed Labels

● Passport Records Group

Passport
Passport Jazz
Audion
Import Records
Important Records
PVC
Visa Records
● Great American Records

 

Select British Labeled Titles Distributed by Jem in USA

● Enigma Records

● E'G Records

 


From: LONESTYLE at aol.com
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:30:42 -0400
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] GEM label pressing history?


That is a good question. I only have the "Fire Dances" album that is on Jem.
 
~ LB
 

In a message dated 4/11/2011 12:05:58 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, drretro at yahoo.com writes:
Hello all,
I was digging through the vinyl collection, and came across some Joke 12"ers that were put out by GEM. The 80s rumor mill had it these were pirate re-issues of import pressing. Can anyone fill me in?
Jay

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