RECORDS
Independent label Amazon was the label of the Amazon Recording Studions, of Kirkby, Liverpool, which was the successor to Liverpool Sound Enterprises. At the beginning of the 70s two ex policemen, Harold Collins and Eddie Hunt, who had a security firm with offices on the Stopgate Lane industrial site set up a studio called Liverpool Sound Enterprises to promote and record local artists. It was located in a plain, concrete building in the fields of Simonswood, just outside Kirkby, a suburb on the northern edge of Liverpool. The building was a remnant of what had been built as the Royal Ordnance Factory, which was built to serve as an ammunition plant during WWII. Amazon studios began in 1973 when Jeremy Lewis took over the studio to use as a place to record his own band and, hopefully, others as a commercial enterprise. Amazon Recording Studions It seems to have been a custom / private / vanity recording label, one where the artists paid the company to make their records. As is the way with such concerns, many of its 7" releases were EPs. 7" and 12" records appear to have shared the same 000 numbering, but they had different prefixes: AR7 and AR12. One EP in the series, 'A Game For All The Family' by Blackmail (AR-7021; 1978), came out on the Tao Productions label. Pressing of the injection-moulded items was by Polydor; AR7-002 was pressed by Deroy. In 1978 Amazon seems to have mutated into 'Jungle Records'. It would appear that the numbering was continued, only with the prefix now as JR and with the 7 and the 12 attached to the start of the number insead of the end of the prefix. A short-lived Amazon label from 1980, which used an AMZ-1000 numerical series, was a subsidiary of RK Records, but it too had a connection with Amazon Studios: the first single on that label was by studio recording engineer Mike Bersin. The few 1970s The studio doesn't appear to have lasted long into the 1980s. Thanks to Robert Lyons For The Info.
| 75 | Tucker Cy & The Friars | Something About You Baby I Like | AMAZON | AR7 | 001 |
| 75 | Rimmer Peter | A Different Song | AMAZON | AR7 | 002 |
| 75 | Green Dream | Merry Christmas Liverpool | AMAZON | AR7 | 003 |
| 76 | Gerry Aiden | Gerry Seren-Aiden Country Style Ep | AMAZON | AR7 | 004 |
| 76 | Father Francis | Flying White Dove (Album) | AMAZON | AR12 | 005 |
| 76 | Les Dennis | Imagination Game | AMAZON | AR7 | 006 |
| 76 | Sandy & Fred | Country Gold Ep | AMAZON | AR7 | 007 |
| 76 | Father Francis | Herald The King (Album) | AMAZON | AR12 | 008 |
| 76 | Not Traced | AMAZON | AR7 | 009 | |
| 76 | Jerry Grant | Pretty Woman | AMAZON | AR7 | 0010 |
| 76 | Father Francis | Fool For You (Album) | AMAZON | AR12 | 0011 |
| 76 | Cy Tucker & The Friars | Funny Face | AMAZON | AR7 | 0012 |
| 76 | The Variations | The Variations | AMAZON | AR7 | 0013 |
| 76 | Salamanda | Pipeline | AMAZON | AR7 | 0014 |
| 77 | Mcparlands | Lovers And Fools | AMAZON | AR7 | 0015 |
| 77 | Cy Tucker & The Friars | Pearl's A Singer / My Prayer / Southern Nights / Hurt ? | AMAZON | AR7 | 0016 |
| 77 | Margo | Think About It Baby | AMAZON | AR7 | 0017 |
| 77 | Not Traced | AMAZON | AR7 | 0018 | |
| 77 | Shyne | Shyne | AMAZON | AR7 | 0019 |
| 77 | The Chimes | The Chimes ?(LP, Album) | REF | AR7 | 020 |
| 78 | Blackmail | A Game For All The Family | TAO PRODUCTIONS | AR7 | 021 |
| 78 | Norman Thomas | Disco Kid | CLOTH CAP | AR7 | 022 |
| 78 | Pam Shaw | Queen Of Wigan Pier | JUNGLE | AR7 | 023 |
| 78 | Not Traced | JUNGLE | AR7 | 024 | |
| 78 | Not Traced | JUNGLE | AR7 | 025 | |
| 78 | Rees Brothers | Put Another Log On The Fire | JUNGLE | JR | 7026 |
| 78 | Crispin James & Tequila | Georgia In A Jug | JUNGLE | JR | 7027 |
| 78 | Not Traced | JUNGLE | JR | 7028 | |
| 78 | Cy Tucker & The Friars | Cy Tucker & The Friars - Live | JUNGLE | JR | 7029 |
| 79 | Dulcima | Seagull | JUNGLE | JR | 7030 |
| 79 | Not Traced | JUNGLE | JR | 7031 | |
| 79 | Cindy Jackson & Clearwater | Leavin' Louisiana In The Broad Daylight | JUNGLE | JR | 7032 |
| 79 | Father Francis | One Day At A Time (Album) | JUNGLE | JR | 12033 |
| 79 | Not Traced | JUNGLE | JR | 7034 | |
| 79 | Len Lacey | This Is The Life (Album) | JUNGLE | JR | 12035 |
| 79 | Not Traced | JUNGLE | JR | 7036 | |
| 79 | Bren & Dee | Easy Kinda Love | JUNGLE | JR | 7037 |
| 79 | Zeebra | Anytime | JUNGLE | JR | 7038 |
| 80 | The Blue Magnolia Jass Orchestra | Sit Down You're Rockin' The Boat | JUNGLE | JR | 7039 |
| 80 | Not Traced | JUNGLE | JR | 7040 | |
| 80 | Father Francis | Volume V - The Old Rugged Cross (Album) | JUNGLE | JR | 12041 |
| 80 | Not Traced | JUNGLE | JR | 7042 | |
| 80 | Not Traced | JUNGLE | JR | 7043 | |
| 80 | Eric Starr | JR Is Our Hero | JUNGLE | JR | 7044 |
| 80 | New Zone | Summertime Song | JUNGLE | JR | 7045 |
| 80 | Not Traced | JUNGLE | JR | 7046 | |
| 80 | Not Traced | JUNGLE | JR | 7047 | |
| 80 | Fr. Francis | Volume VI - Nobody's Child (Album) | JUNGLE | JR | 12048 |
| 80 | Not Traced | JUNGLE | JR | 7049 | |
| 81 | Terry Fletcher | Terry Fletcher | JUNGLE | JR | 7050 |
| 81 | Thin End Of The Wedge | Lights Are On Green | JUNGLE | JR | 7051 |
| 81 | Father Francis | Cry From The Heart | JUNGLE | JR | 7052 |
| 81 | Not Traced | JUNGLE | JR | 7053 | |
| 81 | Not Traced | JUNGLE | JR | 7054 | |
| 81 | Not Traced | JUNGLE | JR | 7055 | |
| 81 | The Boys | Listen To The Beat | JUNGLE | JR | 7056 |
| 81 | Not Traced | JUNGLE | JR | 7057 | |
| 81 | Not Traced | JUNGLE | JR | 7058 | |
| 82 | Fr. Francis | Volume VII - Sunshine Of Your Smile (Album) | JUNGLE | JR | 7059 |
| 80 | Mike Bersin | Me And My Laser | AMAZON | AMZ | 1001 |
