BlaBla

Bla Bla records was created in 1970 and its first products were pop-oriented singles and poetry albums.
Since 1972 it was mainly interested in producing avantgarde or progressive artists, even if they released commercial singles by actors Gino Bramieri and Zeudi Araya, along with some masterpieces of the italian rock like Franco Battiato's "Fetus" and "Pollution", Osage Tribe's "Arrow head" and Capsicum Red's "Appunti per un'idea fissa".

Many Bla Bla products had deluxe gatefold covers, including many singles. Most albums had BBXL (the more avantgarde oriented) or BBL (prog-oriented) prefixes. The singles had BBR prefix numbers. The very scarce and little known first production has BBR numbers for albums and BC prefix for singles.

A collaboration with the english label Island resulted in Franco Battiato's Clic being issued in the UK, while in Italy the LP Tibetan bells by Henry Wolff, Nancy Hennings and Drew Gladstone (previously appeared as Island HELP 3 in 1972) was released.

LP number	Band/Artist(s)	Title	year	notes
BBXL 10001	Franco Battiato	Fetus	1972	gatefold laminated cover with inner
BBXL 10002	Franco Battiato	Pollution	1972	gatefold laminated cover with inner
BBL 11051	Capsicum Red	Appunti per un'idea fissa	1972	gatefold laminated cover with inner
BBL 11052	Osage Tribe	Arrow head	1972	gatefold laminated cover with inner
BBL 11053	Genco Puro & Co.	Area di servizio	1972	single cover
BBXL 10003	Franco Battiato	Sulle corde di Aries	1973	gatefold laminated cover
BBL 11054	Aktuala	Aktuala	1973	gatefold cover
BBXL 10004	Aktuala	La Terra	1974	single cover
BBXL 10005	Juri Camisasca	La finestra dentro	1974	single cover with lyric inner
BBXL 10006	Franco Battiato	Clic	1974	gatefold cover with booklet
BBXL 10007	Henry Wolff , Nancy Hennings with Drew Gladstone	Tibetan bells	1974	single cover with inner
BBXL 10008	Franco Battiato	M.lle le Gladiator	1975	single cover
BBXL 10009	Aktuala	Tappeto volante	1976	single cover
BBXL 210010	Franco Battiato	Feedback	1976	gatefold cover - compilation of tracks from his first four albums
SAMPLER
BOP 90001	Various Artists	Tarzan	1972	compilation with singles' tracks
OTHER NON PROGRESSIVE ALBUMS
BBR 007	Luciano Beretta e Walter Camurri	Il Poeta e l'amore	1970	single cover
BOP 90002	Luciano e Fiorella Brandi	Balliamo il liscio	1972 ?	single cover

SINGLES number	Band/Artist(s)	Title	year	notes
BC 201	Betty Curtis	Donna Innamorarsi no	1970	orange label
BBR 1303	Nicola Arigliano	La prima notte L'amore viene e se ne va	1970	two covers with different colours exist - orange label - gatefold cover
BBR 1304	I Migrants	In una sera Fiore	1970	orange label - gatefold cover
BBR 1305	Gino Bramieri	Le mani Bele	1970	orange label
BBR 1306	Capsicum Red	Ocean She's a stranger	1971	orange label - gatefold cover
BBR 1308	Black Sunday Flowers	Hot rock Madness	1971	orange label - gatefold cover
BBR 1309	Well's Fargo	Run Billy run Come around	1971	orange label - gatefold cover
BBR 1319	Gigi D'Auria	A santanotte ???	1971	orange label
BBR 1322	Capsicum Red	Tarzan Shangrj-La	1971	orange label - gatefold cover
BBR 1323	Osage Tribe	Un falco nel cielo Prehistoric sound	1971	orange label - gatefold cover
BBR 1324	Genco Puro & Co.	La famiglia Beato te	1972	orange label
BBR 1326	Nicola Arigliano	L'improvvisata Tirami su la vita	1972	orange label
BBR 1327	Flavia	Farfalle nella notte Felicità	1972	orange label
BBR 1328	Genco Puro & Co.	Sahara Annamaria	1972	orange label
BBR 1329	H e i Giona	Ho preso il treno con Nina Tanto, tanto, tanto	1972	orange label
BBR 1330	Franco Battiato	Energia Una cellula	1972	orange label - gatefold cover
BBR 1331	Colonnello Musch	Cacao Colonnello Musch	1972	green label - gatefold cover
BBR 1332	Capsicum Red	In una sera Un fiore	1972	probably a promo and never commercially released
BBR 1333	Franco Battiato	La convenzione Paranoia	1972	issued with both green and orange labels, with different recordings - gatefold cover
BBR 1334	Springfield	Love Soldier	1973	green label
BBR 1335	Genco Puro & Co.	Frontiere A San Francisco	1973	green label
BBR 1336	Ixo	Walk on my way Don't look at me	1973	orange label - gatefold cover
BBR 1337	Gino Bramieri	Quella sera con la luna Tirami in su la testa	1973	orange label
BBR 1338	Zeudi Araya	Oltre l'acqua del fiume Maryam	1973	green label
BBR 1339	Juri Camisasca	La musica muore Metamorfosi	1975	green label
BBR 1340	Peter Bewley	It's alright Bill Smile again	1975	green label - year 1973 on label
BBR 1341	Juri Camisasca	Himalaya Un fiume di luce	1975	green label

First production (1970-71) had an orange/yellow shaded label. LP's are very scarce and little is known about them, singles are more common.

From 1972 a new label design was used, olive green with black writing (but some singles still used the old orange design). Most labels have the artist or the record title logo.

The very first production was distributed by Phonogram, since 1972 Bla Bla passed under the Messaggerie Musicali / CGD distribution, later under Ricordi that reissued some of the label products in their Orizzonte budget price series.

Some of the Bla Bla albums were also released on cassette, among them Fetus (BBXL-M 10001) and Sulle corde di Aries (BBXL-M 10001) by Franco Battiato.

BBR series LP (1970-71)

Standard BBXL/BBL LP (1972 onwards)

Single - first design

Single - second design

Single - juke box white label first design

Single - juke box white label second design

Scarce BBR 007 poetry album cover

Thanks to Valerio D'Angelo for the precious help with information and scans of rare Bla Bla items. Also thanks to Pino Orlandi e Alos for information.