RECORDS
Independent American label: Shelter Records was started in the late 1960s by Leon Russell, Denny Cordell and a number of their friends. Bigger in the States than in Britain, where only J. J. Cale and Tom Petty made any great impression, it closed in 1979 and its artists moved en masse to MCA - a few J. J. Cale records did however come out on Shelter in 1981-82 over here. Initially the company's product was released on A&M in Britain, with the actual Shelter label itself only making its first appearance in 1976. It was marketed and sometimes distributed by Island Records, with whose singles it shared a WIP-6000 catalogue sequence. Manufacture was by EMI; EMI' Licensed Record Division marketed some of the singles. Shelter Records came in a black Island sleeve, which suggests that other Shelter releases may have done the same. Two label designs were used: one with a rather hand-drawn-looking logo until June 1977, and a more planetish one from July of that year onwards. Thanks to Robert Lyons For The Info.
| 76 | Leon Russell | Tightrope | SHELTER | WIP | 6290 |
| 76 | Dwight Twilly Band | I´M On Fire | SHELTER | WIP | 6321 |
| 76 | J. J. Cale | Hey Baby | SHELTER | WIP | 6339 |
| 76 | Twily Dwight | Could Be Love | SHELTER | WIP | 6341 |
| 76 | Leon Russell | Slipping Into Christmas | SHELTER | WIP | 5365 |
| 76 | J. J. Cale | Travelin Light | SHELTER | WIP | 6366 |
| 77 | Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers | American Girl | SHELTER | WIP | 6377 |
| 77 | J. J. Cale | After Midnight | SHELTER | WIP | 6393 |
| 77 | Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers | Anything That'S Rock 'N' Roll | SHELTER | WIP | 6396 |
| 77 | Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers | American Girl | SHELTER | WIP | 6403 |
| 77 | Twily Dwight | Trying To Find My Baby | SHELTER | WIP | 6408 |
| 77 | Moore Matthew | Savannah | SHELTER | WIP | 6409 |
| 78 | Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers | I Need To Know | SHELTER | WIP | 6426 |
| 78 | The Dwight Twilley Band | Twilley Don't Mind | SHELTER | WIP | 6427 |
| 78 | J. J. Cale | I'M A Gypsy Man | SHELTER | WIP | 6434 |
| 78 | Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers | Listen To Her Heart | SHELTER | WIP | 6455 |
| 79 | J.J. Cale | Katy, Kool Lady | SHELTER | WIP | 6479 |
| 79 | Dwight Twilley Band | Out Of My Hands | SHELTER | WIP | 6480 |
| 79 | Phoebe Snow | Poetry Man | SHELTER | WIP | 6484 |
| 79 | J.J. Cale | Katy, Kool Lady | SHELTER | WIP | 6521 |
| 79 | Total Eclipse | You Got The Cooties | SHELTER | WIP | 6523 |
| 81 | J.J. Cale | Carry On | SHELTER | WIP | 6686 |
| 81 | J.J. Cale | Mama Don't | SHELTER | WIP | 6697 |
| 82 | J.J. Cale | City Girls ? | SHELTER | WIP | 6775 |
| 79 | Dwight Twilley | Runaway | SHELTER | DWIGHT | 001 |
