Hits '68

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Artist/Maker	EMI Records (publisher) Music for Pleasure Ltd. (publisher) Garrod and Lofthouse Ltd. (printer) Thomas, Jenny (designer) Hamlyn, Paul (publisher)
Place of origin	Great Britain (published)

Cardboard cover sleeve for 'Hits '68', a 12-inch long-playing record featuring 12 cover versions recorded by various sessions musicians. Lettered with titles, credits, sleeve notes by Blase Machin and 'Sleeve Back Design : Jenny Thomas'.

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Categories	Labels & Packaging Music
Object type	Record Sleeve
Title	Hits '68
Materials and techniques	Colour offset lithograph print on cardboard Cardboard Printing Ink Colour Offset Lithography
Brief description	Cover sleeve for 'Hits '68', a 12-inch long-playing record featuring 12 cover versions recorded by various sessions musicians. Colour offset lithograph print on cardboard. Printed by Garrod and Lofthouse Ltd.. Published by Music For Pleasure Records (set up by Paul Hamlyn as a joint venture with EMI). Great Britain. 1968.
Physical description	Cardboard cover sleeve for 'Hits '68', a 12-inch long-playing record featuring 12 cover versions recorded by various sessions musicians. Lettered with titles, credits, sleeve notes by Blase Machin and 'Sleeve Back Design : Jenny Thomas'.
Marks and inscriptions	Lettered with titles, credits, sleeve notes by Blase Machin and 'Sleeve Back Design : Jenny Thomas'.
Historical context	Paul Hamlyn set up Music for Pleasure Records as a joint venture with EMI in 1965.
Production	Paul Hamlyn set up Music for Pleasure Records as a joint venture with EMI in 1965.
Associated objects	E.1184-1988 (Set) E.1185-1988 (Set)
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.1183-1988

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Record created	November 24, 2008
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O174805/hits-68-record-sleeve-thomas-jenny/

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