There are many variations of the first Argo label, two were dark green, one with silver print and one with gold printing. "ARGO" is vertical on the left side of the label, beside the logo is "ULTRA HIGH FIDELITY". While this label was being used, white labels with black printing were used for promotional issues early in the series, later creme colored labels with black printing were used, in some cases the prefix was changed to DJLP, in others the number was not changed. Stereo issues used dark blue with silver printing. Other variations of this label design were silver with black printing and a black label with silver printing. I don't know if there was any particular chronological order to the labels. All of the above designs had identical graphics.

The next label was sliver with black print with "ARGO" vertically on the left side but omitting the "ULTRA HIGH FIDELITY", replacing this was 33 1/3 under the "O" in Argo. The next label was brown with a pink and white "ARGO" in an oval to the left of the center hole.

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