RECORDS
Independent label: On 2nd of November 1969 Flower Records, which had been active in India for three years, had released its first single. Distribution was by the British Independent Record Distributors group - Lugton, H.R. Taylor, and others - and more releases were planned. The company did not intend to restrict itself to Indian music. That first single, 'Ramdhun' b/w 'Hare Krishna Mahamantra', had a catalogue number of FL-1 and orange labels of a plain design, without any pictures or a logo. Two other Flower singles, again by Tripti Das, had catalogue numbers in an FL-100 series and the altogether more ambitious labels. They were undated, They must have come out after 'Ramdhun'. It is not impossible that in the ten weeks or so between the release of that single and the end of 1969 the company could have changed its label design and its catalogue numbers and released two more singles, but it seems highly improbable. A process such as that would be expected to take several months at least, which would place the two later singles in the early 1970s. In addition, FL-101 had a three-pronged push-out centre of a type that seems to have been most commonly produced by manufacturers British Homophone during the periods October 1971 to February 1972 and July to September 1973. The Flowers had a record sales division at 33 Haymarket, London SW1.
| 69 | Tripti Das | Ramdhun | THE FLOWERS | FL | 1 |
| 70 | Tripti Das | Kat Put Li (Puppet On A String) | THE FLOWERS | FL | 100 |
| 72 | Tripti Das | Mon Chai | THE FLOWERS | FL | 101 |
