Evon

Evon Records was a short-lived 1950s/1960s budget label. It was originally a budget outlet for Rondo/Rondo-Lette, as the early albums were reissues from that label or other labels from Eli Oberstein's Record Corporation of America labels. Original Evon "labels" were black with silver print, but were "paperless," that is, the labels were printed on the vinyl, not on paper labels. The label address on the back of the jacket was initially given as "West New York, New Jersey," the same general address as Acorn Records, another Rondo subsidiary. Eli Oberstein's son apparently initially sold Rondo/Rondo-lette, along with its subsidiaries Evon and Acorn, to Precision Radiation Instruments, Inc. (P.R.I. Records), who owned Tops Records, Golden Tone, etc. PRI began adding a Golden Tone logo to the album covers, and even used the generic Golden Tone back album jacket. Sometimes, the albums were even known to have an Evon jacket with a Golden Tone label record inside. The address on the back of these albums was the address of PRI, namely, 5810 S. Normandie Ave., Los Angeles. They used a paper version of the black label, similar to the Tops label matte black paper, and the records were pressed with a deep groove in the label area to help stabilize the paper label. Sometime after Album 351 was issued, the credits on the back of the jackets changed to "Hudson Record Company, 418 Lafayette St., New York 3, New York." The paper label changed to yellow with black print, and the Golden Tone logos were removed from these reissues.