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President Records/President Hifi Records/Président

Oldiesmann

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Oldiesmann @ 2020-10-08 02:59:14 UTC

Trying to sort out the French label originally known as President Records. According to Discogs, it was known as President Records from 1957 to about 1958, then "President Hifi Records" from 1959 (or later in 1958) through 1963 and finally "Président" from 1963 on. The first and third variations were already on site, and I just added the second for the single "Shish-Kebab" by Los Cangaceiros. Discogs has the release date at 1957, but 45cat shows an EP with the song from 1958 with both the "President Records" and "President Hifi" labels (meaning the change in name likely happened in 1958).


Discogs has a separate label for each of the three name variations, while 45cat classifies them all under a single label.


Should we just lump everything under one or continue to keep them separate?

dany

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dany @ 2020-10-08 18:51:35 UTC

If there was no overlap over time,

i.e. the releases are not synchronous,

it could be considered a single record label that twice was slightly varying its logo.


Apparently, this is the treatment in RYM

https://rateyourmusic.com/label/president/

Oldiesmann

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Oldiesmann @ 2020-10-09 02:10:24 UTC

That's how 45cat handles it as well. Might be less confusing that way too.

dany

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dany @ 2020-10-09 07:36:46 UTC

A suggestion:

For to help editors and visitors...

the word President... plus the restrictive term of the country (France) should suffice...

... plus the images of the three types of logo... which, it seems, happened one after the other, in time.

As the main logo I would put the one that was used for the longest time ...

... and the other two could be located to the right of the label page.