Balaena Records are a Dundee based company specialising in folk music from the Tayside area of Scotland.

Clarsach Recordings was a company based in Oban, Argyll, Scotland. It operated during the 1960s.

Gaelfonn specialised in issuing recordings of Gaelic music. Gaelfonn started with issuing 78rpm records and continued with 45rpm and LP records after the demise of 78s. The label illustrated is a 7" 45rpm record from 1966.

Grampian Records is based in Wick in the north of Scotland. This 7" 45rpm record dates from 1965. Grampian Records still trades today but has ceased issuing its own records. It now concentrates on manufacturing pre-recorded audio cassettes for many of the major record companies. It is now the largest pre-recorded audio cassette manufacturer in the U.K.

This 7" 33 ¹/₃ rpm record was manufactured by Geo. Jeffrey Ltd. (the owners of the Waverley record label) for the St.Andrews University Charities Campaign (probably the middle 1960s).

I have not been able to find out much about Norco Records. I think they were based in Aberdeen in the 1960s.

Phoenix Recordings were based in Kirkwall, Orkney. The two 45s I own date from the mid 1960s. Some of the recordings were made in the Phoenix Cinema. Kirkwall. I think the records were pressed in Edinburgh by Geo. Jeffrey Ltd.

REL Records were based at 11 Atholl Place, Edinburgh in the 1970s. They also had their own recording studio.

Scotia Records were owned by S.M.D. Recordings, a company based in Paisley, Renfrewshire.

Thistle Records of Glasgow made this 7" 45rpm record in 1963. James Urquhart was a popular singer of the day and appeared many times in BBC Scotland's famous television programme The White Heather Club.

Geo. Jeffrey Ltd. of Edinburgh made and sold many 45rpm records as well as LPs. This 7" 45rpm EP record features William McCue (bass), who was for many years a stalwart of Scottish Opera and the Scottish National Orchestra under their conductor Alexander Gibson. Gibson was appointed conductor of the SNO in 1959 and remained with them for 25 years. He also became conductor of Scottish Opera in 1962 and was also with them for 25 years.

The above two pictures are of Waverley 45rpm singles.

These records and their sleeves advertising Younger's beer are not Scottish-made but were made by Lyntone Recordings Ltd. of England for Scottish and Newcastle Breweries Ltd., the well-known Edinburgh-based brewery, to advertise Younger's Tartan Keg and Younger's Special, two of their beers. The records date from the 1960s.