RECORDS
Independent American label: Rare Earth Records was a division of Motown Records. Rare Earth was aimed at the underground Rock market; it achieved a measure of success in the States, particularly with the group Rare Earth, but never meant much on this side of the Atlantic. It was active over here from 1971 to 1976 (1969-76 in the USA), and it released more than twenty singles without ever cracking the Chart; though the first Dan The Banjo Man single must have come close. In 1977 the Rare Earth label was replaced by Prodigal. Catalogue numbers were in a RES-100 series; the label design remained basically the same throughout, but there was a minor change in the perimeter text in August 1973 when the reference to 'The Gramophone Co.' at 10 o'clock was altered to read 'EMI Records' - a similar change took place on most of the EMI group labels at or around the same time. Demo copies of RES-110 have the 'EMI' text, while issues have the 'Gramophone' one, which is mildly odd - you'd think that they'd be the other way around, if anything, demos being the earlier pressings. Manufacture and distribution were by EMI. Thanks to Robert Lyons For The Info.
| 71 | Taylor R Dean | Ain't It A Sad Thing | RARE EARTH | RES | 101 |
| 71 | Rare Earth | I Just Want To Celebrate | RARE EARTH | RES | 102 |
| 71 | Stoney & Meatloaf | The Way You Do The Things You Do | RARE EARTH | RES | 103 |
| 72 | Rare Earth | Hey Big Brother | RARE EARTH | RES | 104 |
| 72 | Rare Earth | Born To Wonder | RARE EARTH | RES | 105 |
| 72 | Taylor R Dean | Taos New Mexico | RARE EARTH | RES | 106 |
| 72 | Xit | I Was Raised | RARE EARTH | RES | 107 |
| 73 | Wolfe | Dancing In The Moonlight | RARE EARTH | RES | 108 |
| 73 | Rare Earth | Good Time Sally | RARE EARTH | RES | 109 |
| 73 | Dan The Banjo Man | Dan The Banjo Man | RARE EARTH | RES | 110 |
| 72 | Xit | Reservation Of Education | RARE EARTH | RES | 111 |
| 74 | Alexander David | Love Love Love | RARE EARTH | RES | 112 |
| 74 | Dan The Banjo Man | Black Magic | RARE EARTH | RES | 113 |
| 74 | Rare Earth | I'm Losing You | RARE EARTH | RES | 114 |
| 74 | Campbell Michael Edwards | Roxanne | RARE EARTH | RES | 115 |
| 74 | Slowbone & Wonder Boys | Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen | RARE EARTH | RES | 116 |
| 74 | Sonny & Sovereigns | Schools Out | RARE EARTH | RES | 117 |
| 74 | Rough Riders | Hot California Beach | RARE EARTH | RES | 118 |
| 74 | Slowbone | Oh Man | RARE EARTH | RES | 119 |
| 74 | Friendly Persuasion | Remember | RARE EARTH | RES | 120 |
| 74 | Dan The Banjo Man | Red River Valley | RARE EARTH | RES | 121 |
