The Amazing Kornyfone Record Label

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The Amazing Kornyfone Record Label (TAKRL) was one of the first bootlegging record labels in America. Kornyfone was based in Southern California in the 1970s. The label released albums from such artists as The Beatles, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, Elton John, Joni Mitchell, Pink Floyd, Genesis, and others. Kornyfone was noted for their packaging, with interesting artwork and informative covers.

According to Clinton Heylin, "Though Dub's output [at TMQ] in the five years separating Great White Wonder from Tales from The Who had outstripped any of his competitors, TMQ's catalogue pales alongside what Ken and co. unleashed between 1974 and the end of 1976. A hundred-plus titles from the flagship label, The Amazing Kornyphone Record Label, were supplemented by represses of Smokin' Pig titles, thirty-two titles on TKRWM (The Kornyphone Records for the Working Man), a dozen double-albums on Singer's Original Double Discs (SODD) and sixteen releases on Highway High Fi Collector's Edition Records (HHCER) (which regularly appeared with TAKRL or Smokin' Pig labels - just to add to the confusion)." The TAKRL label was active between 1974 -1977. In 1978 they re-pressed some of their titles with black and white covers.

Releases

1372-RS – Elton John – Elton in disguise with glasses

1373-RS – George Harrison – US tour 1974 : Let's hear one for Lord Buddah

1374-RS – The Beatles – EMI outtakes

1375-RS – Yes – Live in Amsterdam

1376-RS – Deep Purple – Glutton for punishment

1377-RS – Queen – Royal American tour

1379-RS – Black Sabbath – Gr*n-pool

1380-RS – Elton John – Closet keepers

1387-RS – Yardbirds – Golden eggs

1900 – The Beatles – On stage in Japan : The 1966 tour

1901 – The Jeff Beck Group – European tour

1902 – Blind Faith – Recorded live along the U.S tour

1903 – Pink Floyd – In celebration of the comet

1904 – Cat Stevens – The Hoaxer's midnight daydream

1905 – David Bowie – Dollars in drag : The 1980 floor show

1906 – Fleetwood Mac – Merely a Portmanteu

1907 – Elton John – Rockn and roll Madonna

1908 – Joe Cocker – The lost live album

1909 – Frank Zappa / Mothers – Poot face boogie

1910 – Moody Blues – Grande tour

1911 – Emerson, Lake and Palmer – The callow and cash and idle eyes

1912 – Bob Dylan – Ode for Barbara Allen

1913 – Pink Floyd – Noctural submission : robot love

1914 – The Yardbirds – Last hurray in the big apple

1915 – David Bowie – Good enough to eat : Soft in the middle

1916 – The Who – Decidedly belated response

1917 – Neil Young – The last album

1918 – Mott The Hoople – Behind enemy lines

1919 – The Rolling Stones – The Jean Clarke mammorial sonic barbecue

1920 – Procol Harum – Tales with tangrams

1921 – Buffalo Springfield – Stampede : the gold star acetates

1922 – The Bonzo Dog Band – loose gaboose

2922 – Bob Dylan – Lovesongs for America : cast-off lungs and retoughed badlands

1923 – The Mahavishnu Orchestra – Bundled sunspray dimise

1924 – Steely Dan – Rotoscope Down Pleasantly Retired (A Peak Behind the Curtain)

2924 – Emerson, Lake and Palmer – The 1972 American tour

1925 – Joni Mitchell – Lennie and dom songs (early on)

1926 – Rick Wakeman – Unleasing the tethered one

1927 – Van Der Graaf Generator – Fellow Traveller

2927 – Elton John – No title

1928 – King Crimson – Un reve sans consequence spesiale

1929 – Frank Zappa / Mothers – Safe muffinz

1930 – Deep Purple – Perks and tit

1931 – Traffic – On by the way

1932 – Alice Cooper – Parricidal slumbers

1933 – Pink Floyd – Ohn suite ohm : we've blown (ahhaa!) the clone

1934 – Santana – Flako de *57 sportshirt

1935 – David Bowie – Last stand : his masters voice

1936 – The Nazz – Twenty/twenty hindsight

2936 – The Who – Jaguar anyone?

1937 – Lothar and The Hand People – Spores

2937 – Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young – Nice to see you : the nineteen seventy-four excursion

1938 – Chicago – On stage

1939 – Robin Trower – Guitar bandit

1940 – The Kinks – Survivors

1941 – The Rolling Stones – Bedspring symphony

1942 – Little Feat – Electrif lycanthrope

1943 – Gentle Giant – Playing the foole

1944 – Elton John – Just like strange rain : pink-eyed in paradise part one

1945 – Genesis – As through emerald city

1946 – Elton John – All across the havens : pink-eyed in paradise part two - sourced from a video soundtrack of the Hammersmith Odeon show of 24 December 1974.

1947 – Sparks – One and a half-Nelson

1948 – Michael Giles / Peter Giles / Robert Fripp – The cheerful insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp

1949 – Joni Mitchell – (Kept on) by her own devices

2949 – Jethro Tull – Supercharged again : the 1973 American tour

1950 – The Outlaws – Another roadside attraction

2950 – The Beatles – Hahst az son : two weeks in January nineteen sixty-nine

1951 – Bad Company – Scrapbook

1952 – Bob Dylan – Are you now or have you ever been?

1953 – Roxy Music – Champagne and novocaine

1954 – The Doors – Moonlight drive

1955 – Genesis – The bedside yellow foam

1956 – Little Feat – Aurora backseat

2956 – The London Symphony Orchestra – Tommy recorded live at the Rainbow

1957 – Queen – Sheetkeeckers

1958 – 10CC – Going pink on purpose

1959 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Pipe dream

1960 – Steve Miller Band – The midnight toker

2960 – Led Zeppelin – 1975 World tour

1961 – Bad Company – Boblingen

1962-RS – Bob Dylan – Royal Albert Hall

1963 – Bob Dylan – Now your mouth cries wolf

1964 – Boz Scaggs – Jump street jive drive

2964 – Led Zeppelin – Live in Seattle

2965 – David Bowie – Live at Santa Monica Civic

1966-RS – Led Zeppelin – Cellarful of noise ( with Live in Japan subtitle)

1967-RS – Bad Company – Live in Japan

1968 – King Crimson – Heretic

3969 – Pink Floyd – Crackers

1970 – The Kinks – Don*t touch that dial!

1971 – Beck, Bogert & Appice – Somewhere over the rainbow

1972 – Bob Dylan – Joaquin antique

1973 – Pink Floyd – Raving and drooling

1974 – Electric Light Orchestra – Wholly Edison

1975 – Genesis – Awed man out

1976 – Little Feat – Beak positive

1977 – Roxy Music – Foolproof

1978 – Roxy Music – Absinthe makes your heart grow fondle

2979 – Grateful Dead – Make believe ballroom

1980 – Gram Parsons / The International Submarine Band – Red debbils and the deep blue sea

2980 – Genesis – Swelled and spent

1981 – Yes – The affirmery

1982 – Patti Smith Group – Canine teardrop

2982 – Bob Dylan – passed over and rolling thunder

1983 – Gentle Giant – Among the darkers

1984 – Groucho Marx – I never kissed an ugly woman

1990 – Procol Harum – Five and a dime

1991 – The Tubes – Darted in my armchair

1992 – Little Feat – Rampant Syncopatio

1993 – Jackson Browne – The return of the common man

1994 – Electric Light Orchestra – Freedom city pandemonium

2995 – David Bowie – Resurrection on 84th street

1996 – Todd Rundgren/ Utopia – Nimbus thiterward

1997 – Queen – Command performance

1999 – Bob Dylan – Bridgett*s album

2079/80 – Motley Crue – Theatre of Pain Town

24900 – Bob Dylan – Live in Adelaide Australia 1978

24901 – Eagles – Crazed & snake-eyed

24902 – Fleetwood Mac – Will the real Fleetwood Mac please stand up

24903 – Bruce Springsteen – You can trust your car to the man who wears the star

24904 – Rainbow – Live in Australia

24905 – Genesis – Live in Newcastle 1973

24906 – Genesis – Recorded live at the Felt Forum

24907 – Frank Zappa/ Mothers – No commercial potential

24909 – Rolling Stones – Nasty songs

24910 – Bob Dylan – The Hurricane Carter benefit

24911 – Elvis Presley – Memories

24912 – Elvis Presley – Trouble bound

24913 – Elvis Presley – The Vegas years

900 – Bob Dylan – Royal Albert Hall

901 – Elvis Costello – The Kornyfone Radio hour

902 – Fleetwood Mac – The rockhoppers live in Japan

903 – Patti Smith – Hard nipples

904 – Emerson, Lake and Palmer – The 1978 world tour

905 – Supertramp – The 1986 American tour

906 – Crosby, Nash & Young – Waterbrothers

907 – Aerosmith – Look homeward angel

908 – Neil Young – The 1970 Carnegie Hall show

909 – Fleetwood Mac – Offhand

910 – Led Zeppelin – Ballcrusher

911 – Jefferson Starship – Fasten your seatbelt

912 – Patti Smith – In heat

913 – Deep Purple – Guitar slaugherhouse

914 – Deep Purple – Live in London

915 – Yes – Live at the Rainbow

916 – Sex Pistols – Live at Winterland

918 – Led Zeppelin – Live in England 1976

919 – Patti Smith – Teenage perversity and ships in the night

920 – Graham Parker – Pub rockin*

921 – Lynyrd Skynyrd – Flying high

922 – Fleetwood Mac – Play the city of the angels

923 – Babys – Spolied brats

924 – Tom Petty – Heartbreak in N.Y.

925 – Linda Ronstadt – Wishin* I was a cub scout

926 – Foreigner – First time around

927 – Queen – Royal rock us

928 – Elvis Costello – Revelations From The Very Middle

929 – Sex Pistols – Sex Pistols

930 – Rush – Around the world recorded live

932 – Genesis – Recorded live at Marquee Club

933 – Genesis – Recorded live at Carnegie Hall 1973

950 – Devo – Sing if you*re glad to be Devo

957 – Supertramp – Montreal 77

Bozo1 – Various Artists – T'anks for the mammarie

References

The Amazing Kornyfone Record Label Wikipedia

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