The Sussex label

Founded in 1969 by Clarence Avant (former head of Maverick, see photo) and located on Hollywood’s West Sunset Boulevard, and hosting such luminaries as Bill Withers, Dennis Coffey, Creative Source, Soul Searchers and Sixto Rodriguez. All Sussex material was distributed by Buddha records until 1974, when they became an independent distributor untill the company collapsed in 1975. The label design stayed more or less the same through the years: a brown label surrounded by an orange circle, with blue, orange and green concentric circles around the center hole and Sussex written in thick orange letters above these circles.

more detailed info one the releases @ http://www.bsnpubs.com/buddah/sussex.html