A London-based custom recording concern. From c.1977-c.82 Ellie Jay offered pressing deals to anybody wanted to send in a tape and have a record made; that period coincided with the Punk / New Wave explosion, and quite a few bands from those genres availed themselves of the opportunity. Early recordings seem to have been numbered in an EJR-500 (later 600) numerical series, but by 1978 the prefix had become EJSP and the numbers had gained a figure '8' at the front. In that same year the series changed to EJSP-9200, numbers reaching EJSP-9808 in 1982 - singles, EPs and albums shared the same series. The label came in several colour schemes and at least three different designs; the fawn one (5) was the latest of the three. The company also supplied labels with the artist's name rather than the Ellie Jay logo on them (6), or had records pressed with the customer's own label and / or catalogue number on them - see Amalisa, Easy, HOT, Horizon, Orphan and Nervous for examples. The majority of the few Ellie Jays I have seen in the vinyl have been pressed by Lyntone. Thanks to Simon Hughes for the scan of the black label, to Robert Bowes for the scans of the white and yellow labels, and to Barry Adcock for the fawn-and-white one. The 'discography' below only covers the 1970s, and it gives all the company's singles and EPs for that period that I have seen listed. It's poor, but perhaps it's better than nothing.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.