Standard Record Pressing Company, inc.

1960s record pressing company from Nashville, Tennessee.
Opened May 27, 1963.

The plant was originally intended to serve as a retirement project with only Hickory Records as client, but by 1967 they were operating 20 presses and 50 clients including all of the Monument disks east of the Rocky Mountains. They also had a large amount of independent labels as clients. The plant could manufacture 30,000 singles and 20,000 LP's a day.

A news article as published in the 21 Feb 1970 edition of Billboard magazine on page 4 column 5:

"Old Nashville Plant Is Sold

NASHVILLE - This city's oldest pressing plant, built to accommodate its earliest hit records, has been sold for a price near $250,000.

Standard Record Pressing Co., once owned by Jim Bulleit, was purchased by financier Albert Maloney, probably for resale. Maloney has many holdings; he is part owner of the Four Seasons club at Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

The plant was built after the Second World War to press the songs of the late Francis Craig, whose "Near You" and "Beg Your Pardon" were high on the best-seller lists. Later, when the recording industry went into a brief eclipse here, Bulleit sold the plant for a few thousand dollars to a group headed by James Tyner who has held controlling interest since that time. Renamed Standard, the plant
pressed records for as many as 20 separate labels during the peak of its operation."

In 1971, Southern Plastics leased their plant after having sold their own machines and real estate to United Record Pressing during bankruptcy.

Many SRP pressings can be identified by "SRP" followed by a matrix number scratched in the runouts and printed on labels.

Examples:
Harold Gilbert / Jean Gilbert (4) - Blue Tears / I'm The World's Gift To Man