US pressing plants
Bestway Products, Mountainside, New Jersey.
1968: Deseri/Jelly Roll Gum Drop (promo)
1968: Anyway The Wind Blows/Jelly Roll Gum Drop (promo)
MGM Record Manufacturing Division, Bloomfield, New Jersey.
1966: How Could I be Such A Fool/Help I'm A Rock (version 1)
1966: How Could I be Such A Fool/Help I'm A Rock (promo)
1966: Trouble Comin' Every Day/Who Are The Brain Police?
1966: Trouble Comin' Every Day/Who Are The Brain Police? (promo)
1967: Big Leg Emma/Why Don't You Do Me Right (version 1)
1967: Big Leg Emma/Why Don't You Do Me Right (promo)
1967: Lonely Little Girl/Mother People (version 1)
1967: Lonely Little Girl/Mother People (promo)
Midwest Record Pressings Inc., Chicago, Illinois.
1966: How Could I be Such A Fool/Help I'm A Rock (version 3)
1967: Big Leg Emma/Why Don't You Do Me Right (version 3)
1967: Lonely Little Girl/Mother People (version 3)
1968: Deseri/Jelly Roll Gum Drop (version 3)
Monarch Records Mfg. Co., Los Angeles, California.
1966: How Could I be Such A Fool/Help I'm A Rock (version 2)
1967: Big Leg Emma/Why Don't You Do Me Right (version 2)
1967: Lonely Little Girl/Mother People (version 2)
1968: Deseri/Jelly Roll Gum Drop (version 2)
Southern Plastics, Nashville, Tennessee.
1966: How Could I be Such A Fool/Help I'm A Rock (version 3)
Canadian pressing plants
Quality Records Ltd., Toronto, Ontario.
1966: Trouble Comin' Every Day/Who Are The Brain Police?
UK pressing plants
E.M.I Records Ltd., Hayes, Middlesex.
1966: It Can't Happen Here/How Could I Be Such A Fool
1966: It Can't Happen Here/How Could I Be Such A Fool (promo)
1967: Big Leg Emma/Why Don't You Do Me Right (solid center)
1967: Big Leg Emma/Why Don't You Do Me Right (push out center)
1967: Big Leg Emma/Why Don't You Do Me Right (promo)
1967: Big Leg Emma/Why Don't You Do Me Right (test pressing?)
Australian pressing plants
Astor Records, Clayton, Victoria.
1966: How Could I be Such A Fool/Help I'm A Rock
The Australian Record Company Limited, Artarmon, New South Wales.
1968: Deseri/Jelly Roll Gum Drop
References
From William Brown:
During The Mothers of Invention's years on Verve, pressing plants included MGM Record Manufacturing Division, Bloomfield, NJ, with label copy from Pace Press in New York City; H.V. Waddell, Burbank, CA; Southern Plastics (now United Record Pressing), Nashville, TN; and Midwest Record Pressings, Chicago, IL.
Bloomfield pressings, besides the fonts on the label (from Intertype), had a block-like "S" stamped on the deadwax. Midwest Record Pressings copies had as typefaces on their label copy, Ludlow fonts (with Radiant Bold being the text font) pre-1967, and Varityper fonts post-1967.
A few examples pressed by MGM Records, Bloomfield, NJ, are (with other versions' pressings also mentioned):
http://www.zappafrenzy.com/singles/1...ppen_Here.html (Version 1, and promo copy)
http://www.zappafrenzy.com/singles/1...Every_Day.html (Version 1 and promo copy; the Canadian pressing was by Quality Records)
http://www.zappafrenzy.com/singles/1..._Me_Right.html (Version 1 from Bloomfield, Version 3 from Midwest Record Pressings)
http://www.zappafrenzy.com/singles/1...er_People.html (Version 1 and promo copy from Bloomfield; Version 3 from Midwest Record Pressings)
http://www.zappafrenzy.com/singles/1..._Gum_Drop.html (Version 2 from Midwest Record Pressings; have thus far been unable to pinpoint the origin of Version 1, though I did see those typefaces on some pressings of The Intruders' "Cowboys to Girls" on the Gamble label)
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From Kjell Rundlöf:
The triangle and five digits in the matrix is made by Monarch in California (they had their own number series besides the singles matrix).
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From Alan Mansfield:
Good afternoon Bjørn, just looking at your 'unsolved mysteries' did a bit of searching for references to 'Bestway' in the context of record pressing in the 1960's and discovered the following page:
http://www.anorakscorner.com/PressingPlantInfo.html
About 75% down the section headed 'Independent Record Plants' there is a reference to 'Bestway Products, Mountainside, NJ' and that they stamped 'Bestway' in their pressings - this could locate the East Coast site that Verve pressed the Deseri/Jelly Roll Gum Drop promo.
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From Robert Lyons (Seventies Sevens)
There were not many pressing plants here in the 1970s. The Verve singles, VS-545 and VS-557 would have been pressed at the EMI Records plant in Hayes, Middlesex, as would 'What Will This Evening Bring' (UP-35319) and the two Grand Funk singles, INT-523 and INT-528. 'Tears Began To Fall' (K-14100), 'Cosmik Debris' (K-19201), 'Yellow Snow' (K-19202), 'Dancin' Fool' (CBS-7261) and 'Joe's Garage' (CBS-7950) would all have been pressed at the CBS Records plant at Aston Clinton, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
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