IMMEDIATE
RECORDS

Independent label: Immediate Records. The real history of Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate label lies firmly in the 1960s, because, in its original form, the company started out in the middle of that decade - 1965 - and bit the dust at the end of it. NEMS record company licensed it in the '70s and reissued many of its products, including items by hit-makers such as the Small Faces, Humble Pie and Chris Farlowe.   It is an easy matter to tell these reissues from the originals, because they have 'MARKETED BY NEMS RECORDS' printed prominently on both the label and the company sleeve.  They appeared from 1975 to 1977; CBS handled manufacture and distribution until May 1977, when RCA took over.  Catalogue numbers of the original '60s issues were in the IM-000s, and manufacture and distribution were initially by Philips.  The label design remained basically the same, but there were some changes: the artist name started out at nine o'clock and moved to six o'clock in May 1966.  EMI took over manufacture and distribution in April 1967; at that point the three-pronged centres became four-pronged or solid and the Philips name disappeared from the company sleeve.  November 1968 saw a change of colour from white or grey to pink. The '70s version of the label went with the classic white design, this time around numbering started off with IMS-101, in September 1975, and got as far as IMS-110.   The reissues were quite successful: three of them (Chris Farlowe's, 'Out Of Time', and two by the Small Faces) got into the Top 50.  NEMS made further attempts at reviving Immediate in the early '80s, with issues either being numbered in the IM-700s or the IM-200s or having their original IM(S)-000 numbers. The IM(S)-000s don't have 'NEMS' on the label.  Distribution in those years was by Stage One. Thanks to Robert Lyons For The Info.

    

75	Farlowe Chris	Out Of Time  [Re-Issue]	IMMEDIATE	IMS	101
75	Small Faces	Itchycoo Park [Re-Issue]	IMMEDIATE	IMS	102
76	Amen Corner	If Paradise Is Half As Nice [Re-Issue]	IMMEDIATE	IMS	103
76	Not Issued		IMMEDIATE	IMS	104
76	Humble Pie	Natural Born Woman [Re-Issue]	IMMEDIATE	IMS	105
76	Small Faces	Lazy Sunday [Re-Issue]	IMMEDIATE	IMS	106
76	Crispian St Peters	You We'Re On My Mind [Re-Issue]	IMMEDIATE	IMS	107
76	Not Issued		IMMEDIATE	IMS	108
77	Arnold P.P.	First Cut Is The Deepest [Re-Issue]	IMMEDIATE	IMS	109
77	Small Faces	Tin Soldier [Re-Issue]	IMMEDIATE	IMS	110

81	Small Faces	Lazy Sunday	IMMEDIATE	IMS	701
81	Humble Pie	Natural Born Woman	IMMEDIATE	IMS	702

75

Farlowe Chris

Out Of Time  [Re-Issue]

IMMEDIATE

IMS

201