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7" Releases

Format & label	Catalogue number	Artist	Title	Release date	Deletion date	Label design	Comments
7" EP Saydisc	SD 1 (?)	Fred Wedlock	Volume One			1 (red, small)	Silbury Hill; Si Mi Quieres Escribir; Franklin; Hey Nelly Nelly. In generic Saydisc 7" sleeve with artist and song credits stuck onto credit panel. Rear of sleeve is blank. Includes Roneo insert, which concludes with the following credit, 'SAYDISC thank "Bristol Ballads and Blues Club" and "Bristol Poetry and Folk Club" for their co-operation in making this recording impossible'! The catalogue number is taken from the insert, where the '1' looks suspiciously like a capital i - the matrix number is an unhelpful 16123. This was very much a limited edition pressing - there may only have been 99 copies pressed as there is no Mecolico stamp on the labels or sleeve.
7" EP Saydisc	SD 113	The Crofters	Pill Ferry and other Folk Songs sung by The Crofters			2 (red)	Pill Ferry; Whip Jamboree; 23rd of June; The Card Song. 7" 45rpm EP on the second, rough-textured, red generic label design with solid centre (are there any on the first label design?). In picture sleeve showing Gef Lucena and Martin Pycroft on the Pill Ferry at Shirehampton. Record includes a Roneo insert informing the public at large that The Crofters were soon to record a whole EP of local songs, and to send your name and address off on the aforementioned insert if you wanted to know when it was released. The insert stated that one of the tracks was to be "The Great Nailsea Cider Bet", but this track never appeared - was it ever recorded? Pill Ferry is Adge Cutler's Bristolian anthem, Pill, Pill (the song the Vatican tried to ban!). The misnaming of the song is interesting, because this version actually preceeds Adge Cutler's definitive recording). Some more trivia with reference to the sleeve. The photo is taken from the ferry's prow just as it is approaching the slip path on the Shirehampton side, just across the road from the Lamplighters pub (both pub and slip path are still there, as is the shack at the top of the slip path, where you used to pay before going through the turnstile, and so down the usually slippery, muddy path to the ferry, which you got into by walking up a short plank between the path and the ferry side. Health & Safety would probably have a fit nowadays (I never did fall in, and just as well, as rumour has it that, if you did, you were rushed straight to the infectious diseases unit at the close-handy Ham Green Hospital)! Pill Creek is in the background and the ferry's name is 'Margaret' if you really want to know: after the Pill Ferry was discontinued in 1973, it went into retirement, but is now to be seen back ferrying in Bristol Docks. 'Pill' is old English for 'creek', which means that Pill Creek really means 'creek creek'.
7" EP Saydisc	SD 119	Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts	Enchanted Carols: Played on old Musical Boxes	1971		1 (red)	The First Nowel (22" disc Polyphon with glockenspiel attachment, followed by a 15 1/2" Regina); Come All Ye faithful (15 1/2" disc Regina); Hark the Herald Angels Sing (15 1/2" disc Regina); Star of Bethlehem (15 1/2" disc Regina); Silent Night (Symphonion 11 3/4" disc, followed by a Polyphon 9 1/2" disc); Good King Wenceslas (22" disc Polyphon with glockenspiel attachment, followed by a 15 1/2" Regina). 7" 45rpm EP on at least three label designs - the earliest press is on the first label design with the credit 'Christmas Carols on Disc Musical Boxes' on the generic sleeve. The second label press is on a rough-textured, red label with solid centre and the altered title and new sleeve design. Also spotted on the fourth label design (red/silver). All have have 16179 matrix numbers, but the first two do not have catalogue number details on label. There are three versions of the picture sleeve. The first is the generic Saydisc sleeve with no catalogue number details. The second is of the flipback sleeve variety, and has the illustration tinted purple, and text also coloured purple. Catalogue number is included on sleeve but not label. The text on the front of the sleeve is centred, with 'Enchanted Carols' in ornate type face on both front and rear. 'Played on old Musical Boxes' is in mixed case. On the rear of the sleeve at the bottom is the blurb of where to write for a catalogue, and the printing credit is for Senol Printing. The later sleeve has the illustration in black and white with the "Saydisc 45 r.p.m." text justified to the left. "Enchanted Carols" is in a different type face on front and rear, and "PLAYED ON OLD MUSICAL BOXES" is in upper case throughout. Apart from the Saydisc text, the text on the front of the sleeve is printed in red: all other text is in black. The rear of the sleeve does not include the blurb as to where to send for a catalogue, and the printing credit is for West Surrey Printing Co. Ltd., Chertsey. Curiously enough, both have a priniting error in that there is a gap between, the "o" and the "n" in the word "on" on the rear sleeve sub-title! 'Played on beautiful old Musical Boxes from the Mickleburgh collection', as it says on the back of the sleeve.
7" EP Saydisc	SD 120	The Crofters	Drink Up Thee Cider: The Crofters Sing Adge			2 (blue)	Casn't Kill Couch; Champion Dung Spreader; When the Common Market Comes to Stanton Drew; Drink Up Thee Cider. 7" 45rpm EP with solid centre, but in light blue rather than dark red. Picture sleeve showing Coates Somerset Cider Factory, Nailsea. The back of the sleeve states, 'The Somerset songs of Adge Cutler Sung By The Crofters'. Includes a Roneo sheet of A5 paper advertising the first Crofters EP. This EP predates Adge Cutler's own recordings of these songs. One interesting point is that the insert in the previous Crofters EP (SD-113) stated that this EP would include a song by Adge Cutler called The Great Nailsea Cider Bet. Well it doesn't - was it ever recorded? Is there an Adge Cutler version even? Isn't it about time that someone got onto Bob Barratt at EMI to see if there is a Syd Barrett-type plethora of unreleased Wurzels recordings. The first and last tracks also include Pete Davis on string bass, joining Gef Lucena and Martin Pyman.
7" EP Saydisc	SD 124	Fred Wedlock	?			2 (blue)	Virtute et Industrial; + five more - title currently unknown Six track EP with solid centre. Presumably, this was issued in a generic sleeve or with a Roneo insert as otherwise there are no track or artist credits. Includes Fred on guitar with violin and vocal accompaniment - presumably from Bev & Richard Dewar, as they are credited on Virtute et Industrial's reappearance on the Sounds of Bristol 7" LP (33SD 245)..
7" EP Saydisc	33SD 125	Anderson, Jones, Jackson	Anderson, Jones, Jackson	1966			A 5 track EP - tracks unknown. Ian A. Anderson, Al Jones and Elliot Jackson.
7" EP Saydisc	SD 127	Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts	Bells of Bristol Vol. 1			4 (purple/silver)	Change ringing from Bristol: St. Mary Redcliffe (12 bells); The Lord Mayor's Chapel (6 bells); Bristol Cathedral (8 bells); St. Stephen's, City (10 bells). 7" 45rpm EP in picture sleeve with 8 page Roneo insert.
7" EP Saydisc	SD 129	The Crofters	Ballad of the Severn Bridge			3 (yellow)	Ballad of the Severn Bridge; As I Walked Out One Morn; The Butter Churning Race; Buttercup Meadows. Picture sleeve. Record pressed with solid centre. Includes a Roneo insert. All tracks are composed and performed by the Crofters. Both the sleeve notes and insert notes advertise that The Crofters were soon to release an LP - was this ever recorded and release?.
7" EP Saydisc	SD 134	Ian A. Anderson and Elliot Jackson	Almost the Country Blues	1968			EP.
7" EP Saydisc	SD 137	Mike Cooper	Up the Country Blues			2 (blue)	Four track EP with die-cut centre. Presumably, this was issued in a generic sleeve or with a Roneo insert as otherwise there are no track or artist credits.
7" EP Saydisc	33SD 140	Lauri Say and the Island Folk	Songs for Singing Islanders	1968			The Southern Vectis Bus Song; U.D.I. for I.O.W; The Isle of Wight for Me; The Hovercraft. Issued in two different picture sleeves. The first issue from 1968 (?) is in the generic Saydisc 7" sleeve with credits printed directly onto the sleeve in the credits panel. A sticker stating 33 1/3 rpm covers the pre-printed 45rpm credit. The reverse of the sleeve gives details about the artist and the songs, written by Lauri Say. A white label copy of this exists with smooth texture but with rough-textured label centres. The later issue has almost the same rear, but with some text added stating where the record may be bought (Teagues of Ryde and Newport, 'The Island Centre for Music & Home Entertainment'). The front of the sleeve is different with a line drawing of the island. I reckon Fred Wedlock listened to this, as I remember him doing something similar to The Southern Vectis Bus Song!
7" EP Saydisc	33SD 156	Dave & Tim with the Downsiders	Sheep	1968		3 (red)	Robert E. Lee (Dave Mudge); For the Evening (Tim Clutterbuck); Joe Collett (Tim Clutterbuck); Memory Book (Dave Mudge). Picture sleeve designed by Tim Clutterbuck. Record has solid centre and plays at 33 1/3. Thanks very much to Andy Leggett for not only telling me about this issue, but also for sending me a spare copy all the way from Germany! The proposed Mudge & Clutterbuck LP on Village Thing a few years later did not, unfortunately, materialise.
7" EP Saydisc	SD 158	Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts	The Street Piano: A New Selection of Popular Songs	1971		Salmon	7" 45rpm EP. All music from a 48 note Chiappa Ltd. street piano, with music marked and arranged by A. Tomaso, London, from the Mickleburgh collection, Bristol ('played' by Roy Mickleburgh).
7" LP Saydisc	33 SD 177	Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts	Clifton- "Father" Willis 1873-1969	1969		Blue/silver	7" 33 1/3rpm LP. Recordings of the organ in Big School, Clifton College in 1969, before the organ was dismantled prior to building development work. The organ is played by the Director of Music, Mr. David Pettit.
7" LP Saydisc	33 SD 245	Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts	Sounds of Bristol: A Portrait of Bristol in Sounds, Dialect & Song	1973		4 (purple/silver)	Virtute et Indistrial (Fred Wedlock with Bev & richard Dewar); Fanfare from the City Trumpeters; The bells of St. Mary Redcliffe; Peacocks at Clifton Zoo; The opening ceremony of the Pie Poudre Court; Great George; The Harry Brown; The Quarter Jacks of Christ Church with St. Ewan; Humorous diologue by Geoffrey Woodruff. 7" 33 1/3rpm LP with die-cut centre. Issued in both sepia and black and white sleeves. Virtute et Industrial was previously included on SD 124 by Fred Wedlock. The Harry Brown was a battered old boat, which meandered up and down the River Avon until the late 1970s, and which was famously [in Bristol, at least] immortalised on an Arnolfini postcard with the legend, 'River Avon Driftwood'. Virtute et Industrial is Bristol's motto and the song was written by Adge Cutler. A white label copy exists with sold centre.
7" LP Saydisc	33 SD 255	Old Pete	Old Pete	1974		4 (blue/silver)	Some Likely Stories (3 tracks); Some More Likely Stories (3 tracks). 7" 33 1/3rpm LP. Old Pete was really Peter Lawrence. The protagonists in Old Pete's stories always find themselves, quite innocently, in ludicrous, embarrasing, and downright libellous positions. Sleeve by Rodney Matthews, Plastic Dog Graphics. Existence confirmed of a white label test presing with rough-textured labels.
7" LP Saydisc	33 SD 259	Specialist: Spoken Word	Geoffrey Woodruff Live: an entertaining demonstration of local accents	1974		4 (blue/silver)	7" 33 1/3rpm LP. Sleeve by Rodney Matthews, Plastic Dog Graphics. A white label copy exists with rough-textured labels.
7" LP Saydisc	33 SD 260	Old Pete	Old Pete's Christmas Story	1974		Red/silver	7" 33 1/3rpm LP. Old Pete was really Peter Lawrence, and this lovely piece, originally recorded for a Radio Bristol show, brings the Nativity up-to-date, and tells the story in gentle Bristolian, explaining it in terms that Bristolian children would understand.
7" LP Saydisc	33 SD 279	Old Pete and John Christie	Isambard Kingdom Brunel	1977		Light blue/black	7" 33 1/3rpm LP.
7" flexidisc Private release	LYN 3248	Specialist: Spoken Word	Ribena "Sounds of the Sea"				Two-sided flexidisc in booklet sleeve. Record is narrated by Michael Aspel. Includes sound effects from the BBC, Edwin Mickleburgh's collection, Ian Strange (which were these?), Dr. Paul Spong (ditto?) and the Saydisc Electronic Workshop (!). The sea shanties included are sung by Eric Ilott, of The Bristol Shantyman. Recording in produced by David Wilkins (of Valley Recordings), Gef Lucena and Edwin Mickleburgh (credit claims that all of these are from Saydisc Ltd.)
7" EP Roots	EPL-001	Jimmy and Mamma Yancey	How Long Blues / Make Me a Pallet On the Floor				Austrian press in picture sleeve. Record has large centre hole. 45rpm. Jimmy plays harmonium whilst Mama sings.
7" Village Thing	VTSX 1000	Various Artists	The Great White Dap EP	13/11/70		V1	7" 45rpm EP. Tracks by Wizz Jones, Sun Also Rises, Ian A. Anderson, and The Pigsty Hill Light Orchestra. The record was pressed at 33 1/3, and was sold for the astoundingly low price of 9/6d. I seem to remember copies having a picture sleeve, but can not be certain of this, as I might ne getting this mixed up with the promotional advert in Sounds, 14 November 1970.
7" Village Thing	VTSX 1001	Strange Fruit	Cut Across Shorty / Shake That Thing	1971		V1	7" single on the original label design (Andy Leggett's pencil drawing). Strange Fruit were Bristol musicians Pete Keeley and Keith Warmington, a bluesy, folky, good-time duo who broke up (yes, musical differences) fairly soon after releasing this single. They got back together in 1972 and were still together in July 1973: after this it gets a bit sketchy. Keith Warmington is well-known and occasionally still active on the Bristol circuit (for a wonderful while in the early 1980s he was in the barkingly funny Stan Arnold Combo, who got "nil points", in finest Katie Boyle style, on the David Essex Showcase TV talent show - I wish I'd had video in those days - a great performance which was not billed as a comedy act, so people took it seriously. How? Stan Arnold, fat and bald running around the stage like either a rock star or a speed-crazed hamster. Oh yes, back to the single - it was only availabel in glorious mono.
7" Village Thing	VTSX 1002	Ian A. Anderson	One More Chance / Polceman's Ball	1972		V2	7" single. Ian A. Anderson, as opposed to Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull, was and still is a fine country blues guitarist, and now editor of Folk Roots (at least, he was last time I read a copy, which was a fair few years ago, I have to admit). Ian A. Anderson actually appears on an LP sleeve with his non middle-initialed Jethro Tull namesake: "You Can All Join In" (Island IWPS 2) - Ian A. Anderson is the, for many years, mystery tall chap in the woolly hat, that no-one could identify. He was signed to Island, but was dropped from the label after he refused to change his name, so as to avoid confusion with the rather more famous Ian Anderson!