[kj] GEM label pressing history?

[Cliff Livingston]

hehe i grew up in New Brunswick Nj real close to th eJem factory,and Cheap
thrills record store had loads of Jem cut out records,for like 1.99 and .99
cents,loved it,yeah KJ records,i could'nt tell ya if they were worse than
the UK pressings,sounded ok to me.I even worked at a warehouse filled with
old cut outs and misc weird stuff,that was a distributor,they reissued
charles mansions record and stuff like that,haha.

2011/4/11 Rheinhold Squeegee <kjlist at live.com>


>  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

>

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> 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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> How cruel...and unimaginative!

>

> --- On *Mon, 4/11/11, Rheinhold Squeegee <kjlist at live.com>* wrote:

>

>

> 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

> <http://rateyourmusic.com/images/all?type=w&assoc_id=2006434>

>

>

> Jem Records Profile

> *Headquarters*: South Plainfield, New Jersey

> *West Coast Office*: Rosedale, California

> *European Office*: London, England

> *Founders*: Sire Records <http://rateyourmusic.com/label/sire_records/> &

> Marty Scott

> *Group Type*: Independent

> *Launch Year*: 1971

> *Closed Date*: 1988

>

> With backing from Sire Records<http://rateyourmusic.com/label/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<http://rateyourmusic.com/label/passport_records/>and several sub-labels to form the Passport

> Records Group<http://rateyourmusic.com/wiki/Passport%20%20Records%20Group>.

> 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<http://rateyourmusic.com/wiki/Passport%20Records%20Group>

>

>    - Passport <http://rateyourmusic.com/label/passport_records/>

>    - Passport Jazz <http://rateyourmusic.com/label/passport_jazz/>

>    - Audion <http://rateyourmusic.com/label/audion_recording/>

>    - Import Records <http://rateyourmusic.com/label/import_records/>

>    - Important Records

>    - PVC <http://rateyourmusic.com/label/pvc_records/>

>    - Visa Records <http://rateyourmusic.com/label/visa_records/>

>

> ● Great American Records<http://rateyourmusic.com/label/great_american_records/>

>

>

>

> Select British Labeled Titles Distributed by Jem in USA

> ● Enigma Records <http://rateyourmusic.com/label/enigma_records/>

> ● E'G Records <http://rateyourmusic.com/label/eg_records/>

>

>

>

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> 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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