One of the unsung casualties of the death of vinyl as a large-scale music delivery medium was not just the loss of liner notes and cool album art, but record label art. As you know by now, I appreciate a cool logo as much as the next person, and in the salad days of the record business there were some really cool ones.

Here is but a sampling.

ABC-Paramount

Sun Records

Island Records

Del-Fi Records

Apple Records

Casablanca Records

Mushroom Records

Mar-V-Lus Records

Clock Records

Orbit Records

Windy C Records

Dooto/Dootone Records

Parrot Records

Tri-Phi Records

U.S.A. Records

Red Bird Records

End Records

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