This story and discography are copyright 2006 by Mike Callahan :

 

The history of the label All Platinum and the activity of Joey and Sylvia ROBINSON, begins at the end of 1967s at ENGLEWOOD, in New Jersey. At first tnamed PLATINIUM, the label becomes fast All Platinum to avoid any source of confusion with another label of Miami wearing the same name. It is now known that the idea to have added the "ALL" prfix also holds the fact that Joey ROBINSON was for the fact of rules applied to the redistribution of royalities; the distribution indeed beginning leaves the letter "A", there was certainty to collect the royalities very fast.

Thus based in New Jersey, this label will see crossing in its studios many soul artists and funk having recorded under " New Jersey Sound " with Sylvia, or RAY, GOODMAN and BROW as producers. It is also on this label, that SYLVIA will try to relaunch the career of certain artists of the years 50/60, as Lezli VALENTINE, Donnie ELBERT, Dave CORTEZ, Chuck JACKSON... Contrary to STANG and VIBRATION, All Platinum is not going to register big success in charts, the best classified title, dating 1971, is has to credit to Donnie ELBERT with "Where Did Our Love Go". From 1976, as for all the labels distributed by All Platinum, the productions become more funk, to see disco, so translating the end of period. In August '75, by means of the EUROPEAN distributor " PHILLIPS / PHONOGRAM ", the ROBINSONS acquires the CHESS catalog, becoming so for time the biggest independent label " BLACK ". The end 1979 All Platinum is going to change in its new RAP musical direction (SUGARHILL ), and in 1982 SUGARHILL Buy All Platinum (With CHASS catalog), all of this will be bring by MCA, and so it is another history!

 

Associated and distributed labels : A& I (A-1) Records , ALL PLATINUM, ASTROSCOPE , CHANSON records , STANG Records ,  TURBO Records , VIBRATION Records

 

The suffix matrix signification :

 * AP-3000+ : stands for All Platinum 3000 Long Play series

 

 

Full ALL PLATINUM LP imprint releases in chronological order :

.: Don't miss also our 7" single listing >>

.: Don't miss also our 12" single listing >>

 

• AP-3001  Artist : George KERR Album Title:  "The Other Side  Of George KERR" Details :  Not available... 1970	AP-3002  Artist : VARIOUS ARTISTS Album Title: "NEW JERSEYS Greatest Hits" Details :  Not available... 1970	AP-3003  Artist : WILLIE and THE MIGHTY MAGNIFICIENTS Album Title: "On Scene '70" Details :  Not available... 1970
  AP-3004  Artist : George KERR Album Title:  "If This World Where Mine" Details :  Not available... 1970	AP-3005  Artist : HEARTSTOPPERS Album Title:  "Selftitled" Details :  Not available... 1971	AP-3006  Artist : Unknown Album Title:  "-" Details :  Not available... 1971
  AP-3007  Artist : Donnie ELBERT Album Title:  "Where Did Our Love Go" Details :  Not available... 1971 (re edited on SUGARHILL In 1984)	AP-3008  Artist : WILLIE and THE MIGHTY MAGNIFICIENTS Album Title: "Very Soulfull" Details :  Not available... 1971	AP-3009  Artist : Unknown Album Title:  "-" Details :  Not available... 1971
  AP-3010  Artist : Unknown Album Title:  "-" Details :  Not available... 1971	AP-3011  Artist : Dave "Baby" CORTEZ Album Title:  "Soul Vibration" Details :  Not available... 1972	AP-3012  Artist : Unknown Album Title:  "-" Details :  Not available...
  AP-3013  Artist : Unknown Album Title:  "-" Details :  Not available...	AP-3014  Artist : Chuck JACKSON Album Title:  "Needing You, Wanting You Details :  Not available... 1974	AP-3015  Artist : Brook BENTON Album Title:  "This Is Brook Benton" Details :  Not available... 1975 (re edited on SUGARHILL In 1984)
  AP-3016  Artist : Various ARTISTS Album Title:  "All Platinum Gold" Details :  Not available... 1975	AP-3017  Artist : Retta YOUNG Album Title:  "Young and Restless" Details :  Not available... 1976	AP-3018  Artist : FIRST CLASS Album Title:  "Going In First Class" Details :  Not available... 1976
  AP-3019  Artist : Donnie ELBERT Album Title:  "Dancin' The Night Away" Details :  Not available... 1977	AP-3020  Artist : MOTHER FREEDOM BAND Album Title: "Cutting The Chord" Details :  Not available... 1977