Prestige Elite Records Limited

An independent Record Label, Music Publisher and Licensor to over 130 countries worldwide. Established since 1988, Keith C. Thomas and the PERL team has sought to build an extensive catalogue of diverse musical styles. Our recordings are available worldwide for licensing to other recording outlets, advertising agencies or

special product marketing

ABOUT

Prestige Elite Records Limited was formed in the United Kingdom in 1988 by founders Hal Shaper and Keith C. Thomas, who already had long music industry experience as publishers, songwriters, musicians and artist management. Over many years now, the company has produced or acquired many recordings internationally in all genres of good music and continues to release finished product commercially and digitally worldwide.

The group is run by an experienced, friendly and long-serving team of staff of professional people who can handle all business requirements relating to activities of the group of companies and we are always ready and willing to help with any enquiry with a timely response. We are always interested in new acquisitions to expand our recording catalogue, productions and music publishing activities. Our recordings are available worldwide for licensing to other recording outlets, advertising agencies or special product marketing.

We are continually developing our website and hope to have our full catalogue listed soon available by genre, artist or album. In the meantime, please contact us for a catalogue, track-listing's or anything else. All our tracks are digitally mastered or remastered.

ARTISTS

The Blackstones: are a UK based reggae vocal trio formed in 1974, in the tradition of the Jamaican harmony-trio.

The Blackstones comprised the brothers Leon, Byron, and Neville Leiffer. One of the group's early singles, "We Nah Go Suffer", was released on the Daddy Kool and topped the British reggae chart. This success led to recording sessions with Phil Pratt using rhythm tracks recorded at Channel One Studios in Kingston, Jamaica, and vocals added at Chalk Farm studios. These sessions resulted in the debut album Insight, released in 1979.

By 1983, the line-up had changed, with Leon Leiffer joined by Tony Douglas and Ken Kendricks. Their Take Another Look at Love album topped the reggae albums chart, the title track being similarly successful as a single. In 1985 the group contributed to the British Reggae Artists Famine Appeal charity single "Let’s Make Africa Green Again", released by Island Records.

Gil Scott-Heron: (April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011)[8] was an American jazz poet, singer,[3] musician and author, known for his work as a spoken-word performer in the 1970s and 1980s. His collaborative efforts with musician Brian Jackson fused jazz, blues and soul with lyrics relative to social and political issues of the time, delivered in both rapping and melismatic vocal styles. He referred to himself as a "bluesologist",[9] his own term for "a scientist who is concerned with the origin of the blues".[note 1][10] His poem "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised", delivered over a jazz-soul beat, is considered a major influence on hip hop music.

Ella Fitzgerald: (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an American singer, songwriter and composer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella". She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing, timing, intonation, absolute pitch, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.

After a tumultuous adolescence, Fitzgerald found stability in musical success with the Chick Webb Orchestra, performing across the country but most often associated with the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem.

A flavour of the label - A sample of our current Catalogue