Parlophone (England) / 1949
Corporate background:
Making its first appearance in England
after World War I, Parlophone merged with Columbia in 1927.
It still survives as one of the original
founding companies of the EMI conglomerate.
Design:
According to UK music researcher and collector Bill Dean-Myatt, Carl
Lindström used the 'libra' or 'pound sterling' sign at the
top for his personal logo.
The label name is contained within a
bulbous-shaped (and rather obscene-looking) cartouche.
The extreme left-leaning axis of the letter
'o' in the Parlophone name reveals the same kind of treatment
given to the Odeon logo
of the early 1920s.
