New (to Me) Uk Label - Never Seen This Before

[Pete S]

Anyone else seen it or know what else is on the label?

These two tracks later came out on Columbia Bluebeat.

Both are soul tracks, one uptempo, the other a very nice jamaican style beat ballad thing

Edited March 4, 2009 by Pete S

[Godzilla]

Anyone else seen it or know what else is on the label?

These two tracks later came out on Columbia Bluebeat.

Both are soul tracks, one uptempo, the other a very nice jamaican style beat ballad thing

Cool label!

Are you gonna post clips?

[Godzilla]

Hey here's another

[Pete S]

Hey here's another

Is it ska/rocksteady?

[Pete S]

Cool label!

Are you gonna post clips?

Can do if you want, one side is a swinging London groovy Geno Washington thing, no great shakes, but the ballad flip is nice.

[Godzilla]

Is it ska/rocksteady?

It's on eBay and the listing says 2 x 60s instrumentals.

Also found this - no mention of Sky Saxon so I don't think it's the US outfit:

Edit: there's sound clip. It's bloody terrible - makes Brotherhood of Man sound cutting edge!

and this EP might be the same label. Intriguingly it has a song called "one mint tulip"

Edited March 4, 2009 by Godzilla

[Godzilla]

Bingo!

It's connected with Melodisc - same owner:

Sophisticats

There is always an exception to the theme hidden away in every compilation, and the Sophisticats do the honours for Working Man's Soul. Their "At the Woodville" EP looks every inch a private pressing - scant information apart from the names of the artists involved - Gary Lloyd on organ, Johnny Lowe on vocal bass and Keith Chalkey on drums - some sleeve notes that proclaim the groups' excellence as a cabaret act for a number of summer seasons at the titular Woodville hotel on the Channel Island of Jersey.

To all intents and purposes this looks to have the classic elements of a privately pressed recording. As it turns out, the Colortone label was, and remains one of several independent imprints owned and run by the legendary Blue Beat producer Siggy Jackson, and was distributed through the normal channels that independent labels employed to get records into the shops during the 1960s - i.e. driving around London in a van loaded with stock. Colortone was established in 1963, and the Sophisticats EP is the first release on its Spectrum series.

As well as running the Melodisc label through the 1950s and 1960s, Jackson recorded and released many of his own independent productions and continues to do so today. He recalls that a meeting with the Sophisticats in a Soho nightclub led to sessions in a studio on Bond Street and the subsequent EP. Alas, more than that cannot be added to the story as yet. If in fact this EP was not really a privately pressed record, it should have been.

Source:

https://www.licoricesoul.com/lsd014-sophisticats.php

[Godzilla]

and here's yours with a solid centre. Damn I'm on fire today. Wish I was doing as well with integrative studies

[Pete S]

and here's yours with a solid centre. Damn I'm on fire today. Wish I was doing as well with integrative studies

Excellent research...I knew about Siggy Jackson/Melodisc/Blue Beat and would have said so had I not had to take the dog for a walk!

[Pete S]

I think Siggy Jackson ran the Columbia Bluebeat label for EMI. Unsurprising then that Blue Rivers & The Maroons cut an album for that label.

[Godzilla]

Excellent research...I knew about Siggy Jackson/Melodisc/Blue Beat and would have said so had I not had to take the dog for a walk!

Thought you'd have spotted that

I've just edited the post about the Seeds 45. Go and listen to it on UK eBay item 270352822074

I guess they'd given up on the Jamaican sound by then

[Godzilla]

Posted info:

Like I said, no great shakes, B side is very Otis Redding influenced, I actually only bought it because the label was interesting.

I think it's quite pleasant. as long as you didn't pay too much for it I'd have thought you'd be pretty happy with it.

[Godzilla]

...and finally. Maybe worth keeping an eye out for Spectrum albums too...

[Godzilla]

Should I stop now...

SPECTRUM

Spectrum was the record label of a firm called 'Colortone', which initially was based in premises in Dawes Road, London; it had moved to New Malden, Surrey, by 1976. The Spectrum label appears to have been devoted to budget-priced Easy Listening LPs in the main, though it issued at least fourteen singles, somewhat intermittently, in three consecutive numerical series: SP-0, SP-100 and SPEC SP-100. As for dates of operation, SP-12 dates from 1967, which suggests a starting date of c.1966; the highest-numbered single I have traced, SPEC SP-114, Helen McArthur's, 'Bonnie Scotland', came out in April 1976. Thanks to Reuben Kay for discographical information and for drawing my attention to the fact that the label on Lenny Dee's 'Some Kind Of Summer' (SPEC SP-111; 1973) was of a different design: it was red with silver printing and it had no logo, just the name in italic capitals at the top. Needless to say, none of the company's singles ever threatened the Charts, and they are hard to find nowadays, as the gaps in the discography below demonstrates. Distribution of the Helen McArthur record was by Clyde Factors north of the border.

[Davetay]

It's on eBay and the listing says 2 x 60s instrumentals.

Also found this - no mention of Sky Saxon so I don't think it's the US outfit:

Edit: there's sound clip. It's bloody terrible - makes Brotherhood of Man sound cutting edge!

Quote of the day

makes brotherhood of man sound cutting edge PMSL.

[Pete S]

I think it's quite pleasant. as long as you didn't pay too much for it I'd have thought you'd be pretty happy with it.

Cost a tenner.