| In 1968 EMI Records ended
the separate numbering systems they had for Capitol, Columbia, Decca,
Deram, London, Parlophone, Stateside and Tamla-Motown and combined all
the labels into a single unified numbering system which began at 8301.
This presumably was done to avoid having duplicate numbers and
Parlophone, at the time, in the low 8000's was the highest numbers
being used. 8000
unified series - 1968-1969
9000 unified series - 1969-1972 10000 unifed series - 1972-1976 11000 unified series - 1976-1979 |