It's extremely unlikely that this deserves to be called a 'record label' as such. However, one of the guidelines that I decided upon when setting up this site was that if a label has the artist's name on it twice the second name is enough to give it a separate identity, and 'The Colorado Beetles' passes that test. I don't suppose anybody else on the planet would consider it a label, but there you go. Its only release was the one shown above, 'Potatoes' by The Colorado Beetles (EMI-2998; 10/79); the song was a spoof of the Beatles' style, and, as can be seen, the design a spoof of their Apple label. The single was recorded as a joke by Oz Falquero and Brian Wade, but EMI picked it up - as, apparently, did the British Potato Marketing Board. The catalogue number belongs to EMI's main EMI-2000 series, and doubtless the single is referred to as being on EMI everywhere else but here. Oh well, I made the rule so I've got to stick by it. See also Waif Records.
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