Record collectors trade info on budget labels. There is a Wikipedia entry for Synthetic Plastics/SPC, but it is inaccurate.
Feel free to e-mail me if you need any help with that.
On CD:
1. Ace Records UK bought Modern-RPM Records (California) including their Crown Records budget label, and has been releasing the budget rock and roll stuff.
2. A German company has been releasing CD compilations of the Hit-Giant-Spar budget cover version 45s (from Nashville, Tennessee).
Good Reference Sites:
3. This site has substantial discographies of North American budget labels, but you have to read through all the links to find what you need:
http://forbiddeneye.com/labels/archives.html
4. If you want histories of US record companies who produced “normal” LPs, complete with discographies and cover photos, use this site and travel halfway down the page until you get to the links:
http://bsnpubs.com/discog.html
5. Discographies for 45rpm labels (including small companies) from the US, UK, Canada, and Australia are here:
http://globaldogproductions.info/
For US 45s, use the “Search by Record Label” link on left, or the alphabet links at the top
For UK, Canadian, & Australian 45s – go halfway down the page and click on one of the flags.
If you need any help, just e-mail (if my e-mail doesn’t show up here let me know if you need it). I learned more about these things because all the record collectors traded information.
A few years ago some of us had a “project” where we tried to figure out how many times Synthetic Plastics released the same Hawaiian album — we were up to about 80 times, on four different labels, with different cover photos, and a bunch of different names like Luke Leilani, Lukliani, Harry Kaapuni, Hakapuni, etc.
Very funny.when you consider that there must have been an old lady somewhere who bought the same Hawaiian album ten times and thought she was going crazy because they all played the same songs.
That still makes me laugh.