Collectables Records

Collectables
Founder	Jerry Greene, Nina Greene
Genre	Various
Country of origin	U.S.
Location	60 Portland Road, West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania 19428
Official website	www.oldies.com

Collectables is a reissue record label founded in 1980 by Jerry Greene. Greene was previously associated with New York City's Times Square Record Shop, Philadelphia's Record Museum retail chain, and the Lost Nite and Crimson record labels.

Collectables is the largest independently owned (and family-operated) reissue label in the United States. It maintains a catalogue of over 3,400 active titles on compact disc, with thousands of additional titles available on vinyl. It has released hundreds of recordings from the vaults of major labels such as Columbia, Atlantic, RCA, Capitol, Vee-Jay and others, making many available on CD for the first time. Genres found on Collectables include nearly every style of rock music, plus jazz, comedy, blues, doo-wop, funk, and many others.

Collectables publishes the Priceless Collection series of budget compilations. Many of the label's other releases combine the contents of two original LPs on a single CD.

The company also manufactures multi-CD compilation box sets sold exclusively through retailers such as QVC, Costco and Sam's Club.

Collectables is one of a group of companies, including Alpha Video, Gotham Distributing Corporation and the e-commerce website OLDIES.com, owned and operated by Jerry Greene and the Greene family.

Artists issued by Collectables

The following artists have had at least one recording re-issued on the Collectables label.

(In alphabetical order)

1910 Fruitgum Company Gregory Abbott The Aces Combo Barbara Acklin Roy Acuff Faye Adams Jerry Adams Johnny Adams Nicky Addeo & The Night Owls Cannonball Adderley The Addrisi Brothers The Ad Libs Ben Aiken Jewel Akens Al B. Sure! Alabama The Alan Parsons Project Alive And Kickin' Lee Allen Mose Allison The Allman Brothers Band The Allures America The Ames Brothers Ed Ames Ernestine Anderson Lee Andrews & The Hearts The Arkay IV Sammy Atchison The Avalons The Belmonts Blues Magoos Dan Bowden The Brotherhood of Man Dave Brubeck Anita Bryant The Buckinghams The Cameos The Capris The Clickettes Ray Conniff Carl Canida The Capitols Harold Casner Jimmy Chambers The Chandeliers Bruce Channel The Channels Chubby Checker The Checkmates Don Cherry The Chesters Dee Clark The Classics The Collegians Ray Conniff The Cordials The Court Jesters The Crests

The Cyrkle Floyd Dakil Combo The Danleers Doris Day Jimmy Dean The Dell Vikings Devo Dion Dion and the Belmonts Jan Doss Ronnie Dove Al Downing & The Poe Cats The Drifters Sheena Easton The Edsels Ray Ellis Emerson, Lake & Palmer The Emotions Preston Epps The Fabulaires Percy Faith Fancy The Five Discs The 5 Royales The Five Satins Stan Freeberg The Galaxies Tommy Hammond The Harptones The Hi-Lo's Lena Horne Billy Idol The Islanders Burl Ives Jack And The Rippers Wanda Jackson The Jive Five Johnny Maestro & the Brooklyn Bridge The Kodaks The Keynotes Buddy Knox Andre Kostelanetz Lady Wilde Jackie Layne & The Pathfinders Gary Leath Mark Lindsay Little Joe Blue Lewis Lymon & The Teenchords The Mandrake Memorial The Martells Bill Massey Johnny Mathis Gene McDaniels Scotty McKay Gary Middleton The Mods The Monarchs Lou Monte The Novas The Nutmegs The Outcasts[1] (Manhasset, NY) The Outcasts[2] (Texas, USA) The Paragons Carl Perkins Royce Porter

Vernon Pullins ? and the Mysterians The Raindrops Randy & the Rainbows Eddie Rambeau Genya Ravan The Ravens Lou Rawls Johnnie Ray Red Crayola Jim Reeves Wes Reynolds Riot Johnny Rivers The Royal Guardsmen Joey Scarbury Shane With The group The Shells The Sheppards Dinah Shore Bobby Short The Silhouettes Ginny Simms Joe Simon Frank Sinatra The Slocum Brothers Warren Smith Somethin' Smith & The Redheads The Spaniels Benny Spellman Crispian St. Peters Jo Stafford Terry Stafford The Staple Singers Kay Starr Ray Stevens Al Stewart Enzo Stuarti Sugarloaf Gene Summers ((The Styles)) The Sunrays The Super Disco Band The Sveshknikov Choir The Swallows Billy Swan Bettye Swann Sweet Sensation 13th Floor Elevators The Tokens The Quinns Kenny Vance Jimmy Velvit The Versatones We The People Roger Whittaker The Willows Joe Wilson & The Sabres Joe Zawinul

Criticism regarding recording quality

The recording quality of early Collectables' releases is often criticized by audiophiles. Early LPs and CDs were often dubbed from scratchy records. Both Sides Now publisher Mike Callahan (in his book of CD reviews, Oldies on CD), regularly gave early Collectables' CDs low scores based on the sound quality. Over the years, the sound quality has improved greatly on Collectables' releases. Since the mid-1990s, Little Walter DeVenne has remastered many of the label's reissues, and the company has also made extensive use of the in-house mastering and restoration services of the major labels from whom they license material.

See also

• List of record labels

References

1. The Outcasts (Manhasset, New York) discography at Discogs
2. The Outcasts (Texas) discography at Discogs

External links

• Official website
• Collectables discography at Discogs