EMI Brigadiers

EMI Brigadiers

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EMI Brigadiers (legally "EMI-Brigadiers (Pty) Ltd.") was formed in early 1973 as a joint venture between EMI South Africa and local company Brigadiers.

This was done "with the object of creating SA record and tape products and marketing and selling these together with the total catalogs available to both companies" which included material licensed by Brigadiers, Columbia, EMI, HMV, Nitty Gritty, Parlophone, Pye Records, Stateside, and others. Music publishing interests were jointly operated, and the company fell under the combined leadership of Gordon Collins (MD of EMI SA) and Albie Venter (chairman of Brigadiers).

The "label" disappeared around 1983 (presumably after having been bought out by EMI SA) -- although the Brigadiers name did continue to live on in the form of a film production company under Albie Venter (who passed away in 1990).
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Releases:
4355 Kraftwerk Pocket Calculator / Dentaku (7", Single)  
4388 Kraftwerk The Model (7")  
AMLH 64699 Rita Coolidge Love Me Again (LP, Album) 1978
B 219 Richard Jon Smith Sing A Song Of Xmas / He's Got The Whole World In His Hands (7") 1980
BBC (M) 21 No Artist Sound Effects No. 2 (LP, Mono)  
BRS (C) 391 / LSS 16 Various Artist Afrikaanse Skittersterre (LP, Comp)  
DID (L) 5 Martha And The Muffins Trance And Dance (LP, Album) 1980
EMCJ(D) 5059 Queen A Night At The Opera (LP, Album, Gat) 1975
EMCJ (L) 5229 Queen Flash Gordon (Original Soundtrack Music) (LP, Album) 1980
EMCJ(L) 5251 Duran Duran Duran Duran (LP, Album) 1981
EMIJ 4093 Kandy (2) / Amazing Pop Machine King Of Kung Fu (Music From The Soundtrack Of The Film Goodbye, Bruce Lee) (7") 1975
EMIJ 4339 Duran Duran Planet Earth (7") 1981
GBL (L) 505 ABBA Greatest Hits (LP, Comp) 1976
GBL (L) 512 ABBA Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (LP, Comp) 1979
GULP(L)902 Pacific Express On Time (LP, Album) 1978
KAY 510 Lesotho Band, The Featuring Joseph Qinga Ngoana Moshanyana (7") 1978
L4 CEY (EM) 222 Pink Floyd Relics (Cass, Comp)  
L4 PCSJ (N) 7027 Beatles, The Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (Cass, Album)  
PCSJ (L) 205 Beatles, The 20 Golden Hits (LP, Comp)  
PCSPJ 717 Beatles, The 1962-1966 (2xLP, Comp) 1973
PD 1919 Blondie Rapture (7", Single) 1981
SPD 682 Wings (2) Mull Of Kintyre (7", Single) 1977
SRAKJ(L)6023 Exile (7) All There Is (LP, Album) 1979
UAJ (L) 1027 Buzzcocks A Different Kind Of Tension (LP, Album) 1979

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