Mid-South Record Pressing Company

Nashville record pressing company that filed for charter on August 20, 1966 with the name Mid-South Record Pressing, Inc. It was founded by James B. Gann, Jordan Stokes III, and John W. Daniel. After Ralph Harrison - Free Spirit Movin'.
The official spelling of the name is Mid-South but often used MidSouth or Midsouth for marketing and ads. See pics.

Before the pressing plant was Mid-South, it was Midwest Record Pressing, Inc., they bought everything from Record Service. So, it appears to have only been in business for about 5 years. Janet Tabor said in an interview that Alan Bubis hired her to work at Mid-South, so it appears he stuck around for at least a little while to run the operations. Tabor became General Manager and by April 1970, she was managing 80 employees.

According to Tabor, Mid-South was known to have pressed everything for Shelby Singleton Productions Inc.. They also pressed a lot for Chess and some for Motown. They had a contract with Monument for a time and appear to have pressed a handful for Pacific Jazz in 1968-69.

The Mid-South plant had twenty 45 RPM presses and twelve LP presses, with the capacity to produce 1.25 million 45s and 250,000 LP's per month.

The pressing ring size for LP's is the unique 28.5mm.

By June 1971, Mid-South had completed the installation of its own plating operation making them the only pressing plant in Nashville that could do plating internally. Around this time, they also added 6 compression moulding presses to increase its daily capacity to 30,000 LP's and 80,000 singles.

Additionally, the plant had it's own printing machine that was used for printing their own labels. From an interview with Paul Tabor (Janet's husband and manager of the pressing line), "Every once in a while, a box of pre-printed labels would show up for a pressing, but most of the time Midsouth printed them."

The in-house type setting appear to be Varityper fonts including 12 point Gothic Extra Bold Condensed and 8 point Sans Serif Light.