Defunct independent American pressing plant that was located at Huntington Station, Long Island, New York, active from 1947 through 1985.
The plant was founded in 1947 by Clark Galehouse and department store owner Michael Friedman, and named after Galehouse's daughter (Shelley Galehouse Broven). Initially located in a garage in Roslyn, New York, before moving to Huntington Station in 1951. Besides pressing for a host of labels small, medium and large (including Columbia and RCA Victor), the company also owned two labels, Golden Crest and Shelley. Galehouse passed away in 1983 and the plant shut down in 1985.
Pressing identifiers include:
• Suffix in label matrix: LY (Atlantic releases)
• Plant code on label: SH (London releases)
• Plant code on label: 54 (PolyGram releases)
• Runout: raised "X" in Side A runout (styrene pressings)
• Runout stamp: (Ƨ) (backwards S in a circle)
• Runout stamp: Ƨ (backwards S)
• Runout etch: "Lazy S" (sideways)
• Runout etch: "SHELLEY"
• Mirrored numbers etched in runouts
Identified by label matrix suffix/code "LY" on Atlantic and subsidiaries' LPs and 45s starting in 1967 and continuing through 1979 or 1980 (e.g., The Rascals - A Ray Of Hope / Any Dance'll Do!). LP releases on London Records and its various sublabels (Parrot, etc.) as pressed by that plant, bore an "SH" label matrix suffix (e.g., Syl Johnson - Back For A Taste Of Your Love). Also identifiable by "54" numerical code on 1979-84 pressings for PolyGram sublabels (e.g., Big Country - In A Big Country), or by a backward stamped "(Ƨ)" in a circle in runouts (e.g., Jackie DeShannon - Put A Little Love In Your Heart / Always Together). Around 1979, the "Ƨ" stamp was no longer in a circle (e.g., Asha Puthli - L'Indiana). On a few occasions, the full name "SHELLEY" is etched in the deadwax (e.g., The Fifth Dimension - Individually & Collectively).
Shelley pressed both vinyl and styrene LPs.
• Vinyl pressings had a 70mm / 2.75" diameter pressing ring.
• Styrene pressings had a 19mm / 0.75" diameter pressing ring.
• 98mm diameter label stock
Known to have pressed for Elektra, RSO, Avco Records and many others. All releases pressed by Shelley for Liberty's Sunset Records budget label were pressed in styrene.
