RECORDS
American. Reprise was started by Frank Sinatra in 1960, as a vehicle for his own recordings and those of Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. It was sold to Warner Brothers in 1963, and its output seems to the casual eye to have been more or less indistinguishable from that of WB throughout the '70s and '80s. In Britain, Reprise was handled by Pye throughout the '60s. The first, pink, label lasted until 1970, when a new label design featuring a steamboat was adopted. Pye-era Reprise singles were mainly numbered in the RS-20000s - numbers reached the 21000s in 1971 - but there was an occasional RS-23000 series, which operated from c.1965-71, and an RS-27000 one, which dates from 1969-70 and seems to have featured only British artists. Starting in 1971, singles on the various Kinney Corporation labels - Warner Brothers, Atlantic, Elektra and Reprise - were all given numbers in various K-00000 blocks; Reprise was allotted a K-14000 series, which it used for the rest of the decade. The 'steamboat' label remained the same, but while the promos retained their Pye appearance, matrix numbers indicate CBS pressings, suggesting that CBS were handling manufacture and Pye distribution - a similar split occurred with the other Kinney labels, though in the case of Elektra the split may have been with CBS and a different distributor. With its stablemates Warner Brothers and Atlantic, Reprise moved to CBS in 1973, WEA set up its own distribution network, at the start of 1976. As far as company sleeves are concerned, a blue-grey one was used for most of the Sixties, it was replaced briefly by a dark-fawn coloured one, which evolved into the familiar orange form Around 1978 WEA started using a common sleeve for all its labels, including Reprise. This sleeve lasted for about a year before undergoing a comprehensive re-design. A 'Warner Giants' series from 1974 had its own special sleeve. Reprise headed on into the '80s as a constituent of the Warner group. The discography below as usual, is full of holes. Some of these holes can be accounted for by the fact that the singles with those numbers were only issued abroad. Thank to Robert Lyons for the info.
Reprise Records used basically the same numbering system in all countries though in some cases when the "2" was dropped in the US it was continued in other countries such as Australia and the UK for awhile. Later after the "2" was dropped some countries also dropped the "0" at the beginning of the number.
A FULL DISCOGRAPHY OF REPRISE R - RS 20000 SERIES 1961-1970 CAN BE FOUND HERE
| 65 | Bowen Jimmy | Spanish cricket | REPRISE | R | 23043 |
| 65 | Dino Desi & Billy | Not the loving kind | REPRISE | R | 23047 |
| 66 | Lehrer Tom | Pollution | REPRISE | RS | 23049 |
| 66 | Sinatra Frank | Stranger's in the night | REPRISE | R | 23052 |
| 67 | Sinatra Frank | Somethin' stupid | REPRISE | RS | 23166 |
| 67 | Electric Prunes | A long day's flight | REPRISE | RS | 23212 |
| 68 | Sinatra Nancy & Lee Hazlewood | Some velvet morning | REPRISE | RS | 23215 |
| 68 | Tiny Tim | Tiptoe thru' the tulips | REPRISE | RS | 23258 |
| 68 | Martin Dean | Bumming around | REPRISE | RS | 23259 |
| 68 | Family | Me my friend | REPRISE | RS | 23270 |
| 68 | Newman Randy | Love story | REPRISE | RS | 23278 |
| 68 | Family | Second generation | REPRISE | RS | 23315 |
| 69 | Martin Dean | Gentle on my mind | REPRISE | R | 23343 |
| 69 | Vogues | No, not much | REPRISE | RS | 23366 |
| 69 | Martin Dean | By the time i get to phoenix | REPRISE | RS | 23387 |
| 69 | Harrison Noel | Sparrow | REPRISE | RS | 23395 |
| 69 | Mitchell Joni | Chelsea morning | REPRISE | RS | 23402 |
| 69 | Young Neil | The loner | REPRISE | RS | 23405 |
| 69 | Young Neil | Down by the river | REPRISE | RS | 23462 |
| 71 | Williams Paul | Someday man | REPRISE | RS | 23475 |
| 70 | Martin Dean | Jingle bells | REPRISE | RS | 23476 |
| 71 | Sinatra Frank | I will drink the wine | REPRISE | RS | 23487 |
| 71 | Young Neil | When you dance i can really love you | REPRISE | RS | 23488 |
| 71 | Cooder Ry | Go'in to brownsville | REPRISE | RS | 23497 |
| 71 | Crazy Horse | Dance dance dance | REPRISE | RS | 23503 |
| 71 | Ohio Knox | Calamity jane | REPRISE | RS | 23508 |
| 69 | Fleetwood Mac | Oh well | REPRISE | RS | 27000 |
| 69 | Family | No mule's fool | REPRISE | RS | 27001 |
| 69 | Spencer Jeremy | Linda | REPRISE | RS | 27002 |
| 69 | Davis Clifford | Before the beginning | REPRISE | RS | 27003 |
| 69 | Tiny Tim | Have you seen my little sue | REPRISE | RS | 27004 |
| 70 | Family | Today | REPRISE | RS | 27005 |
| 70 | Fleetwood Mac | Rattlesnake shake | REPRISE | RS | 27006 |
| 70 | Fleetwood Mac | The green manalishi | REPRISE | RS | 27007 |
| 70 | Davis Clifford | Come on down and follow me | REPRISE | RS | 27008 |
| 70 | Family | Strange band | REPRISE | RS | 27009 |
| 70 | Fleetwood Mac | Dragonfly | REPRISE | RS | 27010 |
| 70 | Not Traced | REPRISE | RS | 27011 | |
| 70 | Green Peter | Heavy heart | REPRISE | RS | 27012 |
| 62 | Sammy Davis Jr. | Hit Songs From 'Stop The World - I Want To Get Off' | REPRISE | R | 30002 |
| 63 | Frank Sinatra | The Concert Sinatra | REPRISE | R | 30011 |
| 63 | Trini Lopez | More Trini Lopez At P.J.'s | REPRISE | R | 30017 |
| 66 | Nancy Sinatra | Run For Your Life | REPRISE | R | 30069 |
| 67 | Frank And Nancy Sinatra | Something Stupid | REPRISE | R | 30082 |
| 67 | Nancy Sinatra And Lee Hazlewood | Jackson | REPRISE | R | 30083 |
