History
Spin Records was established in late 1966 by Clyde Packer and a group of partners, including entrepreneur Harry M. Miller. The label's first A&R manager was Nat Kipner (the father of musician-songwriter-producer Steve Kipner) who produced several early Spin releases. Most Spin recordings from the late 1960s and early 1970s were produced by Festival Records house producer Pat Aulton.
Launched in late 1966 with the single "Someday" by former Aztecs guitarist Tony Barber, the label was originally called Everybody's, which was also the name of a teen magazine published by Packer's Australian Consolidated Press. The overt cross-promotion reportedly met with resistance from commercial radio, so the label was hastily rebadged as "Spin" after only four singles.
Spin was distributed by Festival Records, then Australia's largest independent recording company. Spin releases played an important part in Festival's business in this period, with hit albums and singles including the 1969 hit single "Mr Guy Fawkes" by The Dave Miller Set and the original Australian cast recording of the rock musical Hair, which became the first Australian cast recording to earn a Gold Record award. Through Kipner (who briefly managed The Bee Gees just before they returned to the UK) Spin was also able to secure the lucrative Australian release rights to the Bee Gees' Polydor recordings from 1967 until the Spin label folded in 1973.
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