CLASSICAL Vinyl Labels – VANGUARD

Vanguard Records

Vanguard Records was set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York. It started as a jazz label, but shifted direction in 1959 by signing Joan Baez, Buddy Guy, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Country Joe and the Fish and others.

The label stayed dormant for most of the seventies, it re-emerged briefly with some disco releases in the eighties and was finally sold to the Welk Group.

VANGUARD
Label

Vanguard Hi-Fi Label, sliver fonts on red label

Vanguard Hi-Fi Label, sliver fonts on black background

Vanguard Stereo Label, sliver fonts on black background, at the direction of 12 o’clock printed “Stereolab”

Vanguard Stereo Label, sliver fonts on black background

Vanguard Stereo 2nd Label, brass coloured background

Vanguard Stereo Late Label

Vanguard Cardinal Series – 1st Label, sliver fonts on black background

Vanguard Cardinal series – 2nd Label

Vanguard Bach Guild series – 1st mono label, dark red with sliver fonts

Vanguard Bach Guild series 1st stereo label, grey (nearly black) with sliver fonts

Vanguard Bach Guild series – 2nd Label

Vanguard Everyman Label (re-issue label)

Vanguard Everyman Label