Pye Plus Records

Pye-Plus Nonesuch was launched in May 1961. The new spoken voice label was run by Denis Preston of Lansdowne Studios (who also did Columbia’s Lansdowne Jazz series). The price range was set at 55 shillings for single albums, and 75 shillings for double albums, making them the most expensive LPs on the market. For this premium price, nearly twice the 32 shillings of the average LP, you got a gold-tooled padded box and heavyweight vinyl. Pye claimed it had an additive to eliminate static.