A DIY label, owned by Country and Western band Idle Hours. The first EP shown above has neither a catalogue number or a date shown on it, and it's not immediately obvious whether 'Just For You' is the name of the group or the EP - it's the EP. It may be that the record originally came in a picture sleeve, which may have been more informative, but by the time it reached me - via a car-boot sale - the cover had disappeared. Robert Bowes has been kind enough to send along scans of two more Idle Hours EPs, the first of which, 'Yesterday / Today', which is again undated and has no number on the label (2). The second, however, featuring 'Wanted Man' and four other tracks, has a catalogue number on it - LS-1700 - and a date as well - 1973 (3). That number is part of a series used by Liverpool Sound label (q.v.), and the two labels look similar. Perhaps the band started their own label with the co-operation of the studio, and stopped using the studio's numbers at some point. As for the manufacturer, there is a matrix number on the run-off of each side of the first EP: the 'A' side shows AS 12 A1, the 'B' side AS 2 B1, but that doesn't really get us anywhere. At a guess 'AS' could stand for 'Amazon Studios', which was the successor to Liverpool Sound, but that's just speculation.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.