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Pickwick International owned a slew of budget labels, including Design Records, Bravo, Sears, International
Award, Hurrah, and Grand Prix. By 1965, Bravo had been discontinued, but International Award, Design,
Hurrah, and Grand Prix were all going strong. Upon closer inspection, part of the reason all three had such a large catalog
was that Pickwick was often issuing the exact same album on the different labels, but with different covers and attributed
to different artists! Many of the albums listed in the Design Records discography met that fate. Of course, if the artists,
like Pete Fountain were well known, the names were consistent from label to label, but for those generic bands, orchestras,
and singers, they may be Norman Roye today and Merlin tomorrow.
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