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Format & label Catalogue number Artist Title Release date Deletion date Label design Comments
LP Saydisc SDL 112 Various Artists Cylinder Jazz

2 (blue, small) Make That Trombone Laugh (Harry Raderman's Jazz Orchestra);
International Cakewalk (Fred van Epps);
Hungarian Rag (New York Military Band);
At a Georgia Camp Meeting (Edison Grand Concert Band);
Hiawatha Rag (Ollie Oakley);
Meadow Lark (Duke Yellman & His Orchestra);
Dardanella (Harry Raderman's Jazz Orchestra);
Coconut Dance (Vess L. Ossman);
Nightime In Little Italy (Frisco Jass Band);
Bill Baily Won't You Please Help Me Home (Burt Sheppard);
Hiawatha Rag (Edison Concert Band);
Teasing Medley (Edison Military Band);
My Sumarian Girl (Vess L. Ossman);

A stupidly rare record that doesn't give anything away with regard to catalogue number. Matrix number is an unhelpful 16199/16200. Limited edition press - 99 copies only? The sister-release, SDL 117, gives the game away by mentioning the catalogue number of this earlier release.

The cylinders came from the collection of Roy Mickleburgh.
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'.
LP Saydisc SDL 117 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Pianola Jazz

2 (blue, small) Skip Along;
Maple Leaf;
Blame It On the Blues;
For Me and My Gal (played by Pete Wendling);
Aunt Hagars Blues (played by Billy Mayerl);
I'll Dance Till De Sun Breaks Through;
Rose Of Washington Square (played by Pete Wendling);
Georgia Camp Meeting;
Stumbling;
French Trot (played by Victor Ardey);
Alabama Dream;
Creole Bells;
Old fashioned Girl.

All 65 note rolls except track 8 (88 note Themodist) and track 13 (88 note Metrostyle).

Early piano jazz and ragtime played on pianola rolls.

Also available on cassette CSDL 117.

Existence confirmed of white label test pressing with small blue generic Saydisc labels glued on top of white labels.
LP Saydisc SDL 118 Neville Dickie, Quentin Williams & Pete Davis Ragtime Piano 1966
2 (blue/small) Original Rags (Neville Dickie);
Daintiness Rag (Neville Dickie);
Rosotio (Quentin Williams);
The Cowcatcher (Quentin Williams);
Paragon Rag (Neville Dickie);
Rag-Time Dance (Neville Dickie);
The Nailbreaker (Quentin Williams);
Ceonothus Rag (Quentin Williams);
Hilarity Rag (Pete Davis);
Maple Leaf Rag (Pete Davis);
Weeping Willow (Neville Dickie);
The Thriller! (rag) (Neville Dickie);
Grace and Beauty (Neville Dickie).

Remained on catalogue long enough to be issued on the 4th label design.

In the British Ragtime series - Volume 1.

All Q. Williams' tracks are original compositions - a rarity in the 1960s British jazz and blues scene!

Existence confirmed of white label test pressing with small blue generic Saydisc labels glued on top of white labels.
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.
LP Saydisc SDL 121 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Music of the Streets c1967

Later re-released (with modifications) as SDL 340
LP Saydisc SDL 123 St. Mary Redcliffe School Choir Three 20th Century Cantatas 1966
2 (red) People Wherever You Are;
Cantata 1 - The Christian Story;
The daniel Jazz - Part 1;
The daniel Jazz - Part 2;
Cantata II - The Prophesy of Isaiah.

In thin card, 'floppy' generic sleeve, with credits overprinted.

The St. Mary Redcliffe School Choir is conducted by Peter Fowler, who formed it in 1958. Soloists are: Roger Nicholas; Andrew Maddern; Maurice Smith; Graham Atwell; John Haly; Stephen Beasant; Thomas Bush; Richard Yandell. Music is arranged by Arthur Parkman and played by the Arthur Parkman Quintet.

Recorded at T.W.W. Studios (the then local commercial television station) in December 1964 and December 1965. The St. Mary Redcliffe School Choir conducted by Peter Fowler.

Existance confirmed of a white label test presing with generic, small red Saydisc labels glued on over the top of the white labels.
7" EP Saydisc SD 124 Fred Wedlock Virtute et Industrial

2 (blue) Virtute et Industrial;
Broomfield Hill;
Racing Pigeon;

Sovay;
Maid of Clifton;
Bi-psychedlic Tandem.

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 from Bev & Richard Dewar.

Virtute et Industrial's reappeared on the Sounds of Bristol 7" LP (33SD 245)..
7" EP Saydisc 33SD 125 Anderson, Jones, Jackson Anderson, Jones, Jackson 1966

Louise;
If Your Man Gets Personal;

Dan Scaggs;
I'd Rather Be The Devil;
Beedle Um Bum.


Ian Anderson, Al Jones and Elliot Jackson.
7" EP Saydisc SD 126 Graham Kilsby In a Folk Mood 1967

Chastity Belt;
She’s Like the Swallow;

Man of Constant Sorrow;
Keep the Willow.

'Chastity Belt', was recorded live at the Troubadour, as the sleevenotes attest.

'... he is a very popular entertainer ... as can be heard from CHASTITY BELT: a neo-Elizabethan song recorded live at the Bristol Troubadour Club. Graham's several voices are joined by Alun Jones-12 string guitar, Patrick Small-guitar and vocal, Fred Wedlock-bicycle horn and frenzied applause …'

'She's Like The Swallow' was an American ballad from a collection by Maud Karpeles. 'Man of Constant Sorrow' included traditional words, though with the tune revised by then local folk historian, Fred Wedlock: Al Jones played twelve string guitar on this second version of the song to be recorded by Saydisc - Pat Small had originally recorded it on the 'Bristol Folks' LP. 'Keep the Willow' had words by Bristol writer, Berry McDonald, and music by Kilsby.
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?.
LP Saydisc SDL 131 St. Mary Redcliffe and Temple School Choir 1967 Recital 1967
1 (red, small) Speak My Tongue (Gregorian hymn);
Praise Ye the Lord (Psalm 150; Reginald Redman);
Confitemini Domini (Constantini);
Rejoice in the Lord Always (Anon., attr. John Redford);
O Taste and See (Vaughan Willliams);
Exsultate Deo (Scarlatti);
Nunc Dimittis in F major (solo, Peter Vincent);
Zadoc the Priest (Handel);
Recession from A Ceremony Of Carols (Britten);
Humoresque (Yon);
Gloria in D major (Vivaldi).

Conductor, Peter Fowler, who also formed the choir in 1958; organist, John Marsh.

Recorded at a concert at St. Mary Redcliffe follwing a highly successful tour of Germany in August 1967.
LP Saydisc SDL 132 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Pianola Ragtime

4 (orange/silver) Temptation Rag;
Rag-Time Skedaddle;
Wabash Blues;
1915 Rag;
The Grizzly Bear Rag;
Walhalla (Two Step Craze);
Florida Rag;
Bow-Bow Blues;
Ragtime Oriole;
A Coon Band Contest;
Smokey Mokes;
Ticked To Death;
Buzzer Rag;
Panama Rag.

All 65 note rolls except track 3 (88 note - no make given), track 4 (88 note Perfecta), and track 8 (88 note Universal)..

The Golden Age Of Mechanical Music series - Vol. 1. early piano ragtime from pianola rolls.

Also available on cassette, catalogue number CSDL 132.
LP Saydisc SDL 133 The St. Mary's Players The World Premiere Production of Bonanza 1912 1967
2 (red, small) Overture;
Hullo There!;
Crystal Ball;
Make Hay!;
C'Est la Vie;
I'm Having the Time of My Life;
Bonanza!;
Farewell Monte Carlo;
Overture;
Paint the Town Red;
Keeping Up with the Joneses;
Gentlemen of the Town;
Strolling Down the Strand;
Votes For Women!;
Airs and Graces;
Rarin' To Go;
Bonanza!

Written by Kenneth Warr and Eric Ward. Recorded Live at St. Mary's Parish Hall, Fishponds, Bristol.
7" EP Saydisc SD 134 Ian Anderson and Elliot Jackson Almost the Country Blues 1968

Cottonfield Blues;
Tom Rushen Blues;

Big Road Blues;
Shake Em On Down.
LP Saydisc SDL 136 The Blue Note Jazz Band Farewell To the Ship

2 (blue, small) Something Spanish;
'Round Midnight;
Mary Jane;
Just Squeeze Me;
Rebecca;
Edith;
Creole Love Call;
Don't Think Twice;
Ain't Misbehaving;
Threepenny Bit.

John Hooper, Geoff Hancock, Roger Bennett, Dave Challis, Nick Cooper, Mike Whitehead, John Viner, Chris Martin, Paul Hawkins.

There are two line-ups on this LP, one recorded live at The Ship in Redcliff Hill before it was bulldozed (along with the original shot tower) to widen the road, and the other line-up on the studio recordings.
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.
LP Saydisc SDL 138 Barbecue Bob The Georgia Blues Vol. 1


Mississippi Heavy Water Blues;
Brown Skin Gal;
Waycross Georgia Blues;
Going Up the Country;
Mississippi Low-Levee Blues;
Bad Time Blues;
Meat Man Pete;
Dollar Down Blues;

Red Hot Mama;
It's a Funny Little Thing;
The Monkey and the Baboon;
Darktown Gamblin' - part one;
Darktown Gamblin' - part two;
Jambooger Blues;
It Just Won't Quit;
New Mojo Blues.

The matrix number is very indistinct (the SDL part is clear, but is almost certainly either 138 or 198). My file copy is a curiousity in that it is almost certainly a test pressing in a plain white sleeve, but it has what looks very suspiciously like American labels (glued over the white labels) with track details and the catalogue number K-1002.
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!
LP Matchbox SDM 142 Various Artists Blues Like Showers of Rain July 1968
M1 A Few Short Lines (Dave Kelly);
Going To Germany (The Panama Limited Jug Band);
Nothin' In Ramblin' (Jo-Ann Kelly);
Dealing with the Devil (Simon & Steve [Simon Prager & Steve Rye]);
Meeting House Rag (Mike Cooper);
Friday Evening Blues (Ian Anderson with Adrian 'Putty' PIetryga & Elliot Jackson);
Dark Road Blues (The Missouri Compromise);
Say No To the Devil (Simon & Steve);
Black Snake Moan (Mike Cooper);
If I Had Possession (The Missouri Compromise);
Rowdy Blues (Ian Anderson);
Black Mary (Jo-Ann Kelly);
Travelling Blues (Dave Kelly);
Cocaine Habit (The Panama Limited Jug Band).

Panama Limited Jug Company comprise Chris Anderson, Tony Ralph, Brian Strachan, Ron Needes with Pete Hossell from Missouri Compromise playing Jug as Ron Needes had split his lip! Missouri Compromise comprise Steve 'Lump' Gamgee, Chris Turner and Pete Hossell.

This LP gained a lot of exposure from John Peel, who featured many of the artists in session on his BBC radio show. The follwing is from Ian A. Anderson, quoted in Ken Garner's In Session Tonight (BBC, 1993, p. 48): ' Mike Cooper and I had suggested Gef Lucena of Saydisc in Bristol start a blues label called Matchbox, and when its first compilation LP Blues Like Showers of Rain came out in July 1968, everything went silly…John Peel, then as now, the first to spot something good happening at the roots, played it every week on Night Ride and had most of the artists guesting.'
LP Matchbox SDR 143 Blind Boy Fuller Blind Boy Fuller On Down Vol. 1 1968
M2 (light blue/silver) What's That Smell Like Fish (with Bull City Red);
Weeping Willow;
Worn Out Engine Blues (with Sonny Terry & Bull City Red);
New Oh Red (with Dipper Boy Council & Bull City Red);
Mean & No Good Woman (with Sonny Terry);
Corrine What makes You Treat Me So;
Get Your Yas Yas Out (with Sonny Terry & Bull City Red);
Why Don't My Baby Write To Me?;
Baby Quit Your Low Down Ways;
Worried and Evil Man Blues;
Mamie;
If You See My Pigmeatl
Put You Back In Jail;
Where My Woman Usta Lay.

Bull City Red and Oh Red are pseudonyms for George Washington.

This LP was reissued in 1974 as LP 110 by Flyright Records, with whom Saydisc issued several joint record releases a couple of years later. The Flyright issue had a different sleeve design but retains the same title. The Saydisc catalogue number SDM 143 (not SDR as per the Saydisc issue?) is the only matrix number included in the run-off and also appears in smaller type above the Flyright number on the labels.
LP Saydisc SDL 145 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts The Golden Age Of Mechanical Music - Vol. 2- Story of the Polyphon 1968

The illustrated talk is based on one given on Radio 3 in 1963 and the music is played on 15 1/2, 19 5/8, 22 & 24 1/2 inch discs. One tracks is played on Le Coultre Overture Musical Box circa 1835.
LP Matchbox SDM 146 Various Artists Blues Piano 1968
M2 (light blue/silver) I Don't Know (Cripple Clarence Lofton);
Policy Blues (Cripple Clarence Lofton);
Crazy 'Bout My Baby (Blind Roosevelt Graves with Uaroy Graves, Will Ezell & unknown accompanist);
Bustin' the Jug (Blind Roosevelt Graves with Uaroy Graves, Will Ezell & unknown accompanist);
So Cold In China (Shorty Bob Parker with Kid Prince Moore);
Rain & Snow (Shorty Bob Parker with Kid Prince Moore);
Farish St. Jive (Little Brother Montgomery);
Texas Heifer Blues (Springback James [Frank James]);
Stingaree Mama Blues (Springback James);
Skippy Whippy (Mississippi Jook Band [Blind Roosevalt Graves, Uaroy Graves & Cooney Vaughan);
Dangerous Woman (Mississippi Jook Band);
Down By the M and O (Lee Brown with Sam Brown & unknown accompanist);
Jeff Davis Highway (Lee Brown with Sam Brown & unknown accompanist);
East Chicago Blues (Pinetop & Lindberg [Aaron Sparks & Lindberg Sparks]).

The various roles of the Piano in Early Blues

Existence confirmed of a white label test pressing.
LP Saydisc SDL 147 Bristol Cathedral School Choir Bristol Cathedral School Choir 1968

Recorded by Gef Lucena and marketed by the School.
LP Saydisc SDL 151 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts The Golden Age Of Mechanical Music - Vol. 3- Wurlitzer



LP Saydisc SDL 152 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts The Golden Age Of Mechanical Music - Vol. 4- Giant German Orchestrions


Existence confirmed of a white label test pressing.
LP Saydisc SDL 153 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts The Golden Age Of Mechanical Music - Vol. 5 - Story of the Mechanical Organ 1969

A story with musical interludes by Bruca Angrave about a barrel organ imported into the UK in 1865, and restored during the 1960s.

The sleeve shows a lovely drawing of a Heath Robinson-type contraption called a "Pianolautomaticarillopolyphorganenmatical box". Phew!

The barrel organ is an Imhof & Muckle, No. 2296, purchased by Angrave in Portobello in the 1960s in ruinous condition and lovingly renovated.
LP Saydisc SDL 154 Various Artists Texas - Louisiana Blues


New Road Blues (Lonnie Williams);
Tears in My Heart (Lonnie Williams);
Single Man Blues (Frankie Lee Sims);
Don't Forget Me Baby (Frankie Lee Sims);
I Want My Mary (Alex Moore);
Miss No Good Weed (Alex Moore);
Sam's Comin' Home (Suitcase Johnson);
T. P. Railer (Black Diamond);
Ground Hog Blues (Lil' Son Jackson);
Evil Blues (Lil' Son Jackson);
Cairo Blues (Lil' Son Jackson);
Rainy Morning Blues (Country Jim);
Avenue Breakdown (Country Jim);
Mountain Key (Jesse Thomas);
Same Old Stuff (Jesse Thomas);
Zetter Blues (Jesse Thomas).

Side 1 has an incorrect matrix in the run-off groove, SDL 134, with the 3 lightly scratched out and a 5 added even more lightly; the matrix on side 2 is a 'typed' SD 154 with the L added in 'freehand'. My file copy is a curiousity in that it is almost certainly a test pressing in a plain white sleeve, but it has what looks very suspiciously like American labels (glued over white labels) with track details and the catalogue number H-103.
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).
LP Matchbox SDM 159 Ian Anderson and Mike Cooper The Inverted World 1968

One Time Blues (Mike Cooper);
Few Short Lines (Mike Cooper);
Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair (Mike Cooper);
The Way I Feel; (Mike Cooper);
Good Book Teach You (Mike Cooper);
The Inverted World (Mike Cooper);
Cottonfield Blues (Ian Anderson);
West Country Blues (Ian Anderson);
Don't You Want To Go (Ian Anderson);
Big Road Blues (Ian Anderson);
Little Queen of Spades (Ian Anderson);
Tom Rushen Blues (Ian Anderson);
Beedle Um Bum (Ian Anderson).

Each artist gets one side of the LP.

Existence confirmed of a white label test pressing.
LP Saydisc SDL 161 Various Artists Georgia Guitar 1927-38


Going Down In Galilee (Swing Along With Me) (Kokomo Arnold)
Something's Hot (Kokomo Arnold)
It Just Won't Hay (Barbecue Bob)
It's Just Too Bad (Barbecue Bob)
Poor Stranger Blues (Fred McMullen)
It's A Good Little Thing (Blind Willie McTell)
Cold Country Blues (Buddy Moss)

My Baby Don't Pay Me No Mind (Buddy Moss)
Stop Hanging Around (Buddy Moss)
Sugar Mama Blues no. 2 (Tampa Red)
Black Angel Blues (Tampa Red)
No No Blues (Curley Weaver)
Penitentiary Bound Blues (Sylvester Weaver)
Devil Blues (Sylvester Weaver)
Black Spider Blues (Sylvester Weaver)

Kokomo record produced by Ted Griffiths & Trev Huyton.

Existence confirmed of a white label test pressing with Saydisc matrix (no Kokomo matrix on record). Plain white sleeve has K 1004 written on one label in biro and Kokomo 1004 written on the sleeve.
LP Saydisc SDL 162 Mike Absalom Save the Last Gherkin for Me 1969

Absolom's first LP was issued on the early Island offshoot, Sportsdisc, which mainly catered for fans of rugby songs and the like. This was his second LP and is hard to find and valuable. The next one is even more valuable because it appeared on the highly collectable spiral Vertigo label.

My mum is a Londoner (Lambeth variety), and she has told me many times, and with great gusto, that between the wars, in Lambeth, a gherkin was always referred to as a 'wally' because of its unfortunate resemblance to a gentleman's thingy (not the colour, hopefully), which was also called a wally.
LP Matchbox SDL 163 Kokomo Arnold Kokomo Arnold 1969
M2 (light blue/silver) Tired of Running From Door To Door;
Kid Man Blues (unknown accompanist);
The Twelves;
Midnight Blues (unknown accompanist);
Big Leg Mama (John Russel Blues);
Your Ways and Actions (unknown accompanist);
I'll Be Up Someday;
Back On the Job (with Peetie Wheetstraw);
Set Down Gal (with [probably] Peetie Wheetstraw);
Southern Railroad Blues;
Big Ship Blues (with [probably] Peetie Wheetstraw);
Busy Bootin'
Slop Jar Blues;
Black Annie.

Original records provided by Evelyn and Johnny Parth from the Bristol & South Wales Collectors' Circle.
LP Saydisc SDL 164 Eric Jordan The Loughborough Carillon 1969
4 (purple/silver) Londonderry Air;
Preludium voor Klokkenspiel;
Andante;
Drink To Me Only;
Nocturne;
Berceuse from Jocelyn;
Softly Awakes My Heart;
Die Lorelei;
Poem;
Extemporization;
Humoresque;
Tempo di Gavotta and Double (extract).

Recordd in the tower just below the bells. The last piece is played by Peter Stratfold.
LP Matchbox SDM 167 Various Artists Blues Like Showers of Rain Volume 2 Jul/Aug 1968

Stop Breaking Down (Simon & Steve [Simon Prager & Steve Rye]);
It Hurts Me Too (Frances McGillivray);
No Time To Lose (Little Brother Dave);
Maybelle Rag (John James);
Bread of Heaven (Steve Rye);
Whitewash Station (The Panama Limited Jug Band);
Rambling Man (Frances McGillivray);
Six Feet In the Ground (Little Brother Dave);
Slow Fast Drag Trot (John James);
Corn Bread, Peas and Black Molasses (Simon & Steve);
Blues Walking Like a Man (Little Brother Dave);
Wildcat Squall (The Panama Limited Jug Band).

Panama Limited Jug Company comprise Chris Anderson, Tony Ralph, Brian Strachan, Ron Needes and Pete Hossell guesting on jug. The Frances McGillivray tracks have Mick Burke on guitar and a lightly disguised Mikel Kooper on second guitar (Mike Cooper was now signed to Pye).

Bob Hall of the legendary Brunning Sunflower Band produces on this LP.
LP Matchbox SDR 168 Various Artists Blind Boy Fuller On Down Volume 2 August 1969
M2 (light blue/silver) Crow Lane Blues (Julius Daniels);
Walking & Looking Blues (Blind Boy Fuller);
Working Man Blues (Blind Boy Fuller);
Tricks Ain't Working No More (Budy Moss);
Cross and Evil Woman Blues (Blind Gary Davis);
I'm Throwing Up My Hand (Blind Gary Davis);
Mississippi River (Bull City Red);
Pick & Shovel Blues (Bull City Red);
Love Me With a Feeling (Sonny Jones);
Dough Roller (Sonny Jones);
I'm a Black Woman's Man (Blind Boy Fuller No. 2 [Brownie McGhee] with Bull City Red);
Got To Find My Little Woman (Blind Boy Fuller No. 2 with Bull City Red & Jordan Webb);
Mama Mama Blues (Sleepy Joe's Washboard Band with Ralph Willis & Pete Sanders);
Shake Boogie (Jammin' Jim [Ed Harris]);
Lemon Man (Dan Pickett);
Trixie (Curley Weaver).

An accompanying volume to Blind Boy Fuller On Down Vol. 1 (SDR 143), this includes performances by those who were influenced by Fuller.
LP Matchbox SDR 169 Sonny Boy Williamson Sonny Boy and His Pals July 1969
M2 (light blue/silver) Tell Me Baby (with Walter Davis & Big Bill Broonzy);
Honey Bee Blues (with Walter Davis & Big Bill Broonzy);
Decoration Day Blues No. 2 (with Joshua Altheimer & Fred Williams);
Love Me Baby (with Big Bill Broonzy, Blind John Davis & Alfred Elkins);
I'm Gonna Catch You Soon (with Ransom Knowling & Blind John Davis);
Miss Stella Brown Blues (with Blind John Davis, Ted Summitt & Armand Jump Jackson);
Desperado Woman Blues (with Blind John Davis, Ted Summitt & Armand Jump Jackson);
Lonesome Man Blues (with Elijah Jones, Yank Rachel & unknown accompanist);
I'm Wild and Crazy As I Can Be (with Elijah Jones & Yank Rachel);
Army Man Blues (with Yank Rachel, William Mitchell & Washboard Sam);
Tappin' That Thing (with Yank Rachel, Alfred Elkins & Washboard Sam);
Worried Blues (with Yank Rachel, William Mitchell & Washboard Sam);
.38 Pistol (with Yank Rachel, William Mitchell & Washboard Sam);
Vitamin A Blues (with Big Joe Willimas & Jump Jackson).

Original records provided by Dave Williams, Jack Parsons and David Ackling.

This is the original Sonny Boy Williamson (the one who recorded "Big Bill and Sonny Boy" for RCA - or at least, the one who was issued posthumously on that particular record, to be completely accurate), not the one who recorded the LP with the Yardbirds.
LP Saydisc SDL 171 See RL 320



SDL 171 exists as matrix number in the run-off groove of RL 320, Various Artists, The Great Harmonica Players Volume 1.
LP Saydisc SDL 172 See RL 323



SDL 172 exists as matrix number in the run-off groove of RL 323, Various Artists, Memphis Blues Vol. 1.
LP Saydisc SDL 173 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts The Golden Age Of Mechanical Music - Vol. 6 - Honky-Tonk Nickelodeons 1967

Sleeve has the extra credits, "Seeburg, Cremorna and Empress Electric Orchestras". The sleeve shows a lovely drawing of a Heath Robinson-type contraption called a "Pianolautomaticarillopolyphorganenmatical box". Phew! Music played on Seeburg H Solo Orchestrion, Cremona Orchestral K and Empress Electric Style Y.
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.
LP Saydisc SDL 181 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts The Golden Age Of Mechanical Music - Vol. 7- Mechanical Opera 1969

From the Tony Sherriff and Roy Mickleborough collections. The music of Gilbert & Sullivan, Rossini, Verdi & more played on Musical Boxes, Barrel and Street Organs.
LP Matchbox SDR 182 Various Artists Those Cakewalkin' Babies from Home Vol. 1


Jug Band Blues (Sara Martin with her Jug Band [Clifford Hayes, Curtis Hayes & Earl McDonald]);
Don't You Quit Me Daddy (Sara Martin with her Jug Band);
Long Tall Mama (Bernice Edwards);
Mean Man Blues (Bernice Edwards);
Death Bell Blues (Madlyn Davis with Georgia Tom & Tampa Red);
Gold Tooth Papa Blues (Madlyn Davis with Georgia Tom & Tampa Red);
You're Going To Leave the Old Home, Jim (Lulu Jackson);
I Ain't Givin' Nobody None (Mae Glover with John Byrd);
Red Beans & Rice (Gladys Bentley);
Big Gorilla Man (Gladys Bentley);
Seaboard Blues (Lucille Bogan);
Troubled Mind (Lucille Bogan);
Deceived Blues (Annie Turner with Little Brother Montgomery & Walter Vincson);
Workhouse Blues (Annie Turner with Little Brother Montgomery & Walter Vincson);
I'm Not a Bad Gal (Memphis Minnie with Little Son Joe and unknown accompanists);
It Was You, Baby (Memphis Minnie with Little Son Joe and unknown accompanists);

Existance confirmed of a white label test pressing.
LP Matchbox SDR 190 Furry Lewis Furry Lewis In Memphis


St. Louis Blues;
Furry Lewis' Blues;
When I Lay My Burdon Down;
Kassie Jones;
Going To Brownsville;
Skinny Woman;
See That My Grave Is Kept Clean;
John Henry;
Furry Lewis Rag;
Careless Love;
My Blue Heaven;
Old Dog Blue;
Spanish Flang Dang;
Highway 61;
Toast.

Sleeve states that this is the continental issue of Roots SL 505.

Existence confirmed of a white label test pressing.
LP Matchbox SDL 191 Peetie Wheatstraw The Devil's Son In Law (1930-36) 1969
M2 (light blue/silver) Ain't It a Pity and a Shame (with Charley Jordan);
Don't Hang My Clothes On No Barbed Wire Line (with Charley Jordan);
C. and A. Blues (with Charley Jordan);
Sleepless Nights Blues;
Throw Me In the Alley (with Ike Rogers & Henry Brown);
Doing the Best I Can (with Charlie McCoy);
Rising Man Blues (with Will Weldon);
King of Spades (with [possibly] Charley Jordan);
Letter Writing Blues (with Will Weldon);
King Spider Blues;
Cocktail Man Blues;
Last Dime Blues (with [possibly] Charley Jordan);
Cut Out Blues;
First and Last Blues;
True Blue Woman;
Sweet Home Blues.

Original records provided by Jack Parsons.

This LP was reissued in 1974 as FLY LP 111 by Flyright Records, with whom Saydisc issued several joint record releases a couple of years later. The Flyright issue had a different sleeve design and is titled Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 1 1930 - 36. The Saydisc catalogue number SDR 191 (not SDL as per the Saydisc issue) is scratched out in the run-off with the new catalogue number added.
LP Matchbox SDL 192 Peetie Wheatstraw The High Sheriff From Hell (1936-38) 1969
M2 (light blue/silver) Low Down Rascal (with Kokomo Arnold);
When I Get My Bonus (with Kokomo Arnold);
Coon Can Shorty (with Kokomo Arnold);
The First Shall Be Last (with Kokomo Arnold);
Deep Sea Love (with Kokomo Arnold);
Remember and Forget Blues;
Don't Take a Chance;
Block and Tackle;
When a Man Gets Down (with unknown accompanists);
False Hearted Woman (with Kokomo Arnold and unknown accompanists);
Crapshooters Blues;
Sick Bed Blues;
I'm Gonna Cut Out Everything (with unknown accompanists);
Devilment Blues (with unknown accompanists);
Truckin' through Traffic (with Lonnie Johnson and unknown accompanists);
Sugar Mama (with Lonnie Johnson and unknown accompanists).

Original records provided by Jack Parsons.

My file copy includes a printed booklet by David Peel, which is a preliminary essay for a projected book about Wheatstraw. Distributed by Belltower Books of Ontario.
LP Saydisc SDL 193 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts The Golden Age Of Mechanical Music - Vol. 8- The Reproducing Piano



LP Matchbox SDR 199 Various Artists Early Blues Volume 1: Skoodle-Um-Skoo 1970

I've Got Salvation In My Heart (Stovepipe No. 1 [Sam Jones]);
Lord Don't You Know I Have No Friend Llike You? (Stovepipe No. 1);
Cripple Creek and Sourwood Mountain - take 1 (Stovepipe No. 1);
Turkey In the Straw (Stovepipe No. 1);
Mama Don't Allow It (and She Ain't Gonna Have It Here) (Charlie Jackson);
Take Me Back Blues (Charlie Jackson);
Shave Em Dry (Charlie Jackson);
Coffee Pot Blues (Charlie Jackson);
Skoodle Um Skoo (Charlie Jackson);
Jonestown Blues (Banjo Joe [Gus Cannon & Blind Blake]);
Madison Street Rag (Banjo Joe);
Can You Blame the Colored Man (Banjo Joe);
Humming Blues (Joe Joe [Joe Linthecome]);
The Kansas City Call (Winston Holmes & Charlie Turner);
Rounders Lament (Winston Holmes & Charlie Turner);
Sheiks Special (Walter Jacobs & the Carter Brothers [probably Lonnie & Bo Chatman, Walter Vinscon and possibly Charlie McCoy]);
Dear Little Girl (Walter Jacobs & the Carter Brothers [probably Lonnie & Bo Chatman, Walter Vinscon and possibly Charlie McCoy]);
Champaigne Charlie Is My Name (Billy James and His Guitar [probably Blind Blake]).

Existance confirmed of a white label test pressing in plain white sleeve.
LP Matchbox SDR 206 Various Artists Early Folk Blues Volume 2: Hometown Skiffle 1970

You Shall (Beale Street Sheiks [Stokes and Sane - Frank Stokes & Dan Sane]);
Jelly Roll Blues (Excelsior Quartette);
Too Long (Mississippi Sheiks [Walter Vincson and, probably, Lonnie Chatman]);
She Showed It All (Napoleon Fletcher with Roosevelt Sykes & Edith Johnson);
I'm Gonna Get It (Hokum Boys [Casey Bill Weldon, Big Bill, Washboard Sam and unknown accompanists]);
Derbytown (Old Ced Odom & Lil 'Diamonds' Hardaway);
Hometown Skiffle - Part 1 (Paramount All-Stars [probably Alex Hill, Georgia Tom Dorsey, Will Ezell & Blind Blake]);
Hometown Skiffle - Part 2 (Paramount All-Stars [probably Alex Hill, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Georgia Tom Dorsey, Will Ezell & Blind Blake, Charlie Spand & Papa Charlie Jackson]);
It's a Good Thing (Beale Street Sheiks);
Kitchen Mechanic Blues (Excelsior Quartet);
Skinner (Winston Holmes & Charlie Turner);
Slave Man Blues (Bumble Bee Slim [Amos Easton and probably Arnett Nelson & Black Bob with unknown accompanists]);
Keep Your Mind On It (Hokum Boys [as above with speech by Weldon]);
Stop Truckin' & Suzi-Q (Tampa Red and the Chicago Five [probably with Arnett Nelson, Black Bob & Willie B. James with unknown accompanists]);
Texas Tommy (Yank Rachel with Sonny Boy Williamson & 'Jackson' Joe Williams);
Every Time My Heart Beats (The Delta Boys [Son Bonds, John Estes & Raymond Thomas]).
2-LP Matchbox SDX 207/8 Various Artists Black Diamond Express To Hell 1970

Mother's Prayer (A. C. Forehand with Blind Mamie Forehand);
Sit Down Servant (Rev. J. C. Burnett and His Gospel Singers [probably Sisters Grainger & Jackson]);
I've Got a Key To the Kingdom (Blind Willie Davis);
You Got To Walk That Lonesome Valley (Rev. F. W McGhee with unknown accompanists);
Arise and Shine (Lonnie McIntorsh);
Christ Was Born On Christmas Morn (Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers ['Half Pint' Jaxon with, probably, Punch Miller and unknown accompanists]);
Now Is the Needy Time (Daniel Brown with Tiny Parham and unknown accompanist);
I Am the Vine (Elder Otis Jones with unknown acompanists);
I'm So Glad Today, Today (A. C. Forehand with Blind Mamie Forehand);
The Angel Done Gone Down (Rev. J. C. Burnett and His Gospel Singers [probably Sisters Grainger & Jackson]);
I Saw the Light (Bull City Red with Blind Gary Davis);
I Want Two Wings To Veil My Face (Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers ['Half Pint' Jaxon with, probably, Punch Miller and unknown accompanists]);
How Much I Owe (Lonnie McIntorsh);
Your Enemy Cannot Harm You (Blind Willie davis);
Beulah Land (Daniel Brown with Tiny Parham and Blind Blake);
I'm On My Way To the Kingdom Land (Bo Weavil Jackson);
When the Saints Come Marching Home (Bo Weavil Jackson);
How Long (Rev. Charles White with James Butler and unknown accompanist);
Laid Down My Burdon (Prophet B. W. West with congregation and unknown accompanists);
I Want 2 Wings (Rev. Utah Smith with congregation);
God' Mighty Hand (Rev. Utah Smith with congregation);
Stand By Me (Sister Matthews with James Butler);
I'll Fly Away (Rev. B. C. Cambell with congregagtion and unknown accompanists);
Heaven Bound Train (Rev. B. C. Cambell with congregagtion and unknown accompanists);
We're Gonna Have a Good Time (Gospel Keys [AKA Two Gospel Keys -Mother Sally Jones and Emma Daniels]);
I Love Travelling (Two Gospel Keys);
I Want My Crown (Gospel Keys);
What You Want the Lord To Do For You (Goldrock Gospel Singers [no details known]);
Jesus Is With Me (Goldrock Gospel Singers);
Jesus Loves Us All (Rev. A, Johnson with unknown accompanist);
I Don't Know How To Get Along Without the Lord (Rev. A, Johnson with unknown accompanists);
This Way (The Gospel Twins - no details known);
One Word (The Gospel Twins).



Double LP in single sleeve.

Existence confirmed of white label test pressing.
LP Saydisc SDL 209 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Piston Polka 1970
4 (purple/silver) Old Comrades March;
Beer Barrel Polka;
La Reve Passe (Soldier's Dream March);
With a Little Bit Of Luck;
Spoonful Of Sugar;
Piston Polka;
Our Director;
Let's Twist Again/Lily the Pink/Congratulations;
Boccaccio Waltz;
Al Jolson Medley - 8 tunes including: Dixie Melody/California Here I Come/Me and My Gal/The Best Things In Life Are Free/Lullaby Of Broadway/23rd Street;
Robert E. Lee;
Dixieland Medley - 12 tunes including: Alexander's Rag Time Band/Dina/Great Big Beautiful Doll/Dixie/Sheik Of Araby/Everybody's Doing It/That Mysterious Rag/Whistlin' Rufus;
This Is My Song;
The Last Waltz;
Pupet On a String.

The Golden Age Of Mechanical Music - Vol. 9.

Music played on a 67 key, 5 register Carl Frei Dutch Street Organ.
LP Saydisc SDL 210 Various Artists I'll Dance Till De Sun Breaks Through

4 (orange/silver) Alabama Skedaddle (Xylophone solo by William Mitcham);
I'll Dance Till De Sun Breaks Through (Archibald Joyce and his Orchestra);
That Mysterious Rag (Robert Carr, Jack Charman, Herbert Cove with banjo by Olly Oakley and piano accompaniment);
Dill Pickles - Hot Stuff Ragtime (Scala Military Band);
Whistling Rufus (Banjo solo by Olly Oakley, with piano accompaniment by Landon Ronald);
Unidentified Cake-Walk (from blank labelled 7", c. 1903);
From Soup To Nuts (Piano solo by Felix Arndt);
That Moarning Saxophone Rag (Six Brown Brothers - Saxophone Sextet);
Black Diamond Rag (Prince's Orchestra);
Stomp Dance (Victor Military Band);
The Cake-Walk (The Victor Minstrels);
Smoky Mokes (Metropolitan Orchestra);
Calico Rag (Piano solo by Frank E. Banta, with drums by Howard Kopp);
Two-Key Rag (Conway's Band);
Ragtime Frolics (Xylophone solo by Mr. R. White, with orchestra);
Alexander's Ragtime Band (Arthur Collins, Byron G. Harlan, with orchestra);
Eli Green's Cake Walk (Banjo duet by Cullen and Collins);
Bacchanal Rag (The Peerless Orchestra);
Grizzly Bear (Jack Chairman, Walter Miller, with banjo by Olly Oakley and piano acc.).

Ragtime, Cakewalks and Stomps, Vol. 2, 1898 to 1917.
LP Saydisc SDL 211 Various Artists Rhythm Of The Bells 1970

Produced for the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers but also marketed nationally by Saydisc.
LP Saydisc SDL 212 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts The Limonaire Fair Organ


Recorded and marketed by A. Finbow, Stowmarket, Suffolk
LP Matchbox SDR 213 Little Brother Montgomery Little Brother Montgomery 1930-1969

M2 (light blue/silver) No Special Rider Blues;
Vicksburg Blues (1930);
Louisiana Blues (with [?] Hicks and [probably] Minnie Hicks);
Frisco Hi-Ball Blues;
Something Keeps a-Worryiing Me;
Chinese Man Blues;
Louisiana Blues part 2;
Muleface Rag;
Cow Cow Blues;
Vicksburg Blues (c. 1954);
In the Evening (Little Brother Montgomery and His Jazz Blues Band [Montgomery, Leroi Nabors & unknown accompanists]);
Michigan Water Blues;
Winding Ball Blues;
New Vicksburg Blues (Jeanne carroll with the Little Brother Montgomery Trio [Montgomery, Red Saunders & Truck Parham]);
Brother Red's Boogie (Little Brother Montgomery Trio [without Carroll]).

Sleeve by Plastic Dog from photos supplied by Little Brother Montgomery. Neither record nor sleeve includes date of release.
LP Matchbox SDR 216 Clyde Bernhardt Blowing My Top

M2 (light blue/silver) Baby Tell Me;
Jail House Blues;
Cracklin' Bread;
Daisy Mae;
Hey Miss Bertha;
Barron Boogie;
Blowing My Top;
It's Been a Long Time Baby;
Perdido;
Indiana;
After Hours Blues;
Don't You Think I Ought To Know;
Sweet, Sweet Mama Blues;
Don't Leave Me Baby;
You Excite Me;
Ode To Billy Joe;
The Saints.

Tracks 1 & 2 are Bernhardt, Bill Campbell, Cecil Scott, Nathaniel Cross, Joe Scott & Slick Jones; tracks 3 & 4 are by Ed Barron and His Orchestra [Bernhardt, Joe Black, Walter page, Everett Barksdale, Jimmy Crawford, Buddy Tate & George James; tracks 5 - 8 are by Ed Barron and His Orchestra [Bernhardt, Kenny Kersey, Everett Barksdale, Joe Benjamin, Joe Scott, Clay Burt, Sam 'the Man' Taylor, Charlie Fowlkes & Joe Garland; track 9 is Bernhardt, Earl Knight, Charlie Jackson, Thomas Barney & Frankie Dunlop; tracks 10 - 17 are Bernhardt, earl knight, Snags 'Napoleon' Allen, Thomas Barney & Sammie Scott.

Ed and Barron were Berbhardt's middle names!

Neither record nor sleeve includes date of release.

Existance is confirmed of a white label test pressing.
LP Saydisc SDL 217 Frank Evans Stretching Forth 1971

With Dave Olney on bass and Ian Hobbs on drums. Thanks to Craig Walker for the information on this release.
LP Saydisc SD(SAM) 218 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts The Golden Age Of Mechanical Music - Sampler 1971

Carl Frei Dutch Street Organ - Piston Polka (from SDL 209);
22" Polyphon - La Malchiche;
Roller Barrel Organ - Flow Gently Sweet Afton;
Empress Electric Style Y Orchestron - America Forever (from SDL 173);
Orpheus Disc Piano - The Blind Irish Girl/Cruiskeen Lawn;
Nicole Frere Forte Piano Musical Box - Medley;
Penny Piano - Bold Gendarmes;
Small Capital Musical Box - In the Gloaming;
27" Regina Musical Box - Estudiantina Waltz;
22" Polyphon - Vienna Hearts - March;
Mandolin Quartet - Columbia Gem of the Ocean;
Webe Grand Electric Reproducing Piano - Rose of the Rio Grande - Foxtrot;
Paillard Vaucher Fils Musical Box - example;
Imhof & Muckle Barrel Organ - Flallergeister Waltzer (J. Strauss);
48 Note Street Piano - A Wandering Minstrel I;
Seeburg H. Solo Orchestrion - Waiting For the Robert E. Lee (from SDL 173;
Nicole Frere Table Model Musical Box - Blue Danube Waltz (J. Strauss);
Cabinetto Paper Roll Organ - Magnet and the Churn/God Save the Queen.

Sleeve design by Plastic Dog.

Sampler LP made up of new recordings and several previously issued pieces. Originally sold at 99p and with the price inconveniently printed on the sleeve so that Saydisc couldn't put the price up!

From the Roy Mickleburgh, Tony Sherriff, Bruce Angrave, Hathaway and Bowers, and A. E. Showering collections.

This was also pressed and distributed in the US by Ahura Mazda as SD 218 for the budget price of $4.98.
LP Saydisc SDX 219 Specialist: Nature Antarctica 1971
2 (light blue/silver) Ice movement;
Emperor Penguins;
Blizzard;
Spring;
Weddell Seals;
Adelie Penguins;
Skuas;
Rough seas;
Fur Seals;
Cormorants;
Elephant Seals;
Snow etrels;
Cape Pigeons;
Giant Petrel;
Prions, Wilson's Petrels;
Huskies.

Lavish set - record in gatefold sleeve, and with a 24 page booklet. The pictures of the seals are recommended! Recordings from the British Antarctic Survey 1968-1971: recordings and booklet are both by Edwin Mickleburgh, one of the Directors of Saydisc.
LP Saydisc SDL 220 Specialist: Railway Great Western in Gloucestershire 1973
4 (dark blue/silver) 3775 & 4689 (5/11/65 & 12/10/65);
3775 (no date);
4564, 7014, 5089, 6860, 6999 & 7925 (6/11/63, 29/8/63, 6/7/63, & 7/8/65);
7816, 6160, 3775 & 3832 (21/10/65 & 23/11/65);
1440 & 1455 (8/8/63);
6009 & 4706 (15/12/61).

Recordings from the Coleford branch, around the Cheltenham area, Gloucester, Badminton, etc.

Also issued in mono as a mid-price cassette in the 'Steam Heritage Series', CSDLB 220.
LP Saydisc SDL 221 Jim Europe & Arthur Pryor Too Much Mustard

4 (dark green/silver) Memphis Blues;
That Moaning Trombone;
Hesitating Blues;
Too Much Mustard;
Down Home Rag;
Indianola;
The Darktown Strutters' Ball;
Slippery Place Rag;
Georgia Sunset Cake-Walk;
Temptation Rag;
The African 400 (An Educated Rag);
The Ragtime Drummer;
The Ragtime Drummer (again);
That rag;
The King of Rags;
Canhanibalmo Rag.

Lt. Jim Europe's 369th Infantry ('Hell-Fighters') Band play on tracks 1 - 3, 6 & 7. Europe's Society Orchestra play on tracks 4 & 5. The Victory Military Band (with Pryor) play on track 8. Arthur Pryor's Band play on tracks 9 - 16.

Subtitled Ragtime, Cakewalk & Stomps Vol. 3.

A picture of Arthur Pryor is included on the sleeve, but there was no known photograph of Jim Europe when this record was scheduled and released. Europe was knifed onstage by one of his drummers, Private Herbert Wright, after Europe had reprimanded him for breaching stage etiquette. Europe was buried with full military honours, a very rare occurence for a negro in the United States Army in those days, but there is no record of what happened to Wright (can anyone help?).
LP Saydisc SDL 222 Specialist: Spoken Word Cotswold Characters 1973
4 (turquiose/silver) Miss Amy Cook of Coombe, Wotton-under-Edge;
The late Mrs. Emily Elliott, of Frampton Mansell;
Don and Lionel Ellis, of Chipping Campden;
Fred Archer of Ashton-under-Hill;
The late Ned Wheeler of Lower Swell;
Mr. William Worthy Crew and the late Mrs. Mary Crew;
Howard Pritchett of Bibury.

Stories, dialect and reminiscences from old people of the Cotswolds.

Also issued on cassette, CSDL 222.

Existence confirmed of a white label test pressing in plain white sleeve with wraparound proof sleeve.
LP Matchbox SDM 223 Little Brother Montgomery Home Again 1972
M2 (purple/silver) Lonesome Mama Blues;
Tremblin' Blues;
Aggravatin' Blues (with Jan Montgomery);
No Special Boogie;
Jan;
St. Louis Blues;
Home Again Blues;
Dangerous Blues (with Jan Montgomery);
Up the Country;
I Was So In Love With You (with Jan Montgomery);
History Of Little Brother;
After You've Gone (with Jan Montgomery).

Sleeve by Plastic Dog. Textured sleeve.
LP Matchbox SDM 224 Various Artists The Legacy of Tommy Johnson 1972

Big Road Blues (Isaac Youngblood & Herb Quinn);
Bye and Bye Blues (Mager Johnson);
Maggie campbell Blues (Arzo Youngblood);
Cannet Heat Blues (John Henry 'Bubba' Brown);
Cool Water Blues (Boogie Bill Webb);
Big Fat Mama Blues (Arzo Youngblood);
Pont Blues (Houston Stackhouse & Carey 'Ditty' Mason);
I Believe I'll Make Everything All Right (Arzo Youngblood);
Show Me What You Got For Sale (Boogie Bill Webb);
Prison Bound Blues (Arzo Youngblood);
Maggie Campbell Blues (Boogie Bill Webb);
The Old Folks Doing It and the Little Ones Trying (Arzo Youngblood);
Big Road Blues (Babe Stovall, O. D. Jones & Dink Brister);
take Your Time (Boogie Bill Webb);
Pine Top Boogie (Roosevelt Holts);
Don't You Lie To Me (Boogie Bill Webb).

Textured sleeve. Sleeve design by Plastic Dog.

All tracks are songs that were in Tommy Johnson's repertoire, and all were learned by the artists here from Johnson himself.

Existance confirmed of a white label test pressing.
LP Matchbox SDM 225 Various Artists Big Road Blues


Pick and Shovel Blues (Mott Willis);
So Soon I'll Be Home (Robert Johnson);
Dresser Drawer Blues (Mott Willis);
Unknown track;
Riverside Blues (Mott Willis);
Travelling Man Blues (Mager Johnson);
Mama Do Right (Willis Taylor and Mott Willis);
Maggie Campbell Blues (Roosevelt Holts);
Trashy Gang Blues (Willis taylor and Mott Willis);
Catfish Blues (Cary Lee Simmons);
Big Road Blues (Arzo Youngblood)
Who Is That Yonder Coming Down the Road (Mott Willis);
Sundown Blues (Roosevelt Holts);
Bad Night Blues (Mott Willis)

Existence confirmed of a white label test pressing in plain white sleeve.

My file copy includes a typed, 7 page, insert with details of the tracks and artists. Also includes a promotional photo of Mott Willis.
LP Matchbox SDM 226 Various Artists Blues From the Delta 1972
M2 (orange/silver) Cairo Blues (James 'Son' Thomas);
Bottle Up and Go (Lee Kizart);
Big Fat Momma (Scott Dunbar);
Rootin' Ground Hog (Lovey Williams);
Rock Me Momma (James 'Son' Thomas);
Train I Ride (Lovey Williams);
It's So Cold Up North (Scott Dunbar);
Don't Want No Woman Telling Me What To Do (Lee Kizart);
Jay Bird (Scott Dunbar).

Compiled by William Ferris Junior (Bill Ferris) to accompany his book, Blues From the Delta (November Books, London).

Existence confirmed of a white label test pressing.
LP Matchbox SDM 227 Viola Wells Miss Rhapsody 1972
M2 (orange/silver) Down Hearted Blues;
How Great Thou Art;
See, See Rider;
In the Garden;
Brown gal;
His Eye Is On the Sparrow;
Blues in My Heart;
Power In the Blood;
I Fell For You;
Face To face;
Old Fashioned Love.

Textured sleeve. Sleeve by Terry Brace at Plastic Dog.

Recorded April 22, 1972, in New York with Reuben Jay Cole, Danny Gibson, Ivan Rolle, Eddie Wright and Mrs. Grace Gregory. One of the few contemporary releases on the Matchbox label.
LP Saydisc SDL 228 Clyde Bernhardt and his Harlem Blues & Jazz Band Blues & Jazz From Harlem 1972
4 (light blue/silver) Good Rolling Blues;
After You've Gone;
Georgia On Your Mind;
Lazy River;
Triflin' Woman Blues;
Sugar Blues;
Nobody's Sweetheart;
There'll Be Some Changes Made.

With Charlie Holmes, Happy Caldwell, Jacques Butler, Earl Knight, Napoleon 'Snags' Allen, Jimmy Shirley and James Harewood.
LP Matchbox SDM 229 Franklin George & John Summers Traditional Music for Banjo, Fiddle & Bagpipes 1972
Purple/silver Londonderry Hornpipe (John Summers & Franklin George);
Boatsman (Franklin George);
Angeline (Franklin George & P. Dunford);
Pipe Medley 1: Wearing of the Green/All the Way To Galway
Medley: Wake Up Susan/Devil's Dream (John Summers, Franklin George & P. Dunford);
Salt River (Franklin George);
Rickett's Hornpipe (Franklin George);
Teetotaler (Franklin George);
Old Molly Hare (Franklin George & P. Dunford);
Pipe Medley II: Minstrel Boy/O'Donnell Abu
Turkey In the Straw (Franklin George);
Fiddle Collection: Forked Horn Deer/Fisher's hornpipe/Round Town Girls/Top Of Cork Road/Arkansas Traveler (John Summers & Franklin George);
Cumberland Gap (Franklin George);
Nancy Ann (Franklin George);
Grey Eagle (Franklin George);
Mississippi Sawyer (John Summers, Franklin George & P. Dunford);

Sleeve incorporates original design with additions by Plastic Dog.

Matchbox Country Series Vol. 2 (Vol. 1 had an earlier release date, but a later catalogue number - SDM 231).

Originally released in the US on the Kanawha label with the catalogue number KANAWHA 307.

Existance confirmed of a white label test presing.
LP Flyright - Matchbox SDM 230 Various Artists Mississippi River Blues


Lonesome Highway Blues (Lucious Curtis & Willie Ford with John Lomax speaking)
Guitar Picking Song (Lucious Curtis);
High Lonesome Hill (Lucious Curtis & Willie Ford);
Pay Day (Willie Ford);
Train Blues (Lucious Curtis);
Mississippi River Blues (Lucious Curtis & Willie Ford);
Stagolee (Lucious Curtis & Willie Ford);
Farmin' Man Blues (Lucious Curtis & Willie Ford);
Nobody's Business (Willie Ford);
Santa 'Field' Blues (Willie Ford with John Lomax speaking);
Sto' Gallery Blues (Willie Ford & Lucious Curtis);
Rubber Ball Blues (Lucious Curtis & Willie Ford);
Country Girl Blues (George Boldwin);
Time Is Gettin' Hard (Lucious Curtis & Willie Ford).

Library of Congress field recordings from Natchez, Mississippi, Saturday 19 October, 1940. Recorded by John Avery Lomax and Ruby Terril Lomax.

In the Flyright-Matchbox Library of Congress Series (Volume 1 in the series).

Exists as a white label test pressing.

The tracks that make up this record are analysed and discussed in Blues World, No. 38, Spring 1971, in the article Natchez, Mississippi Blues, by Bob Groom. The journal predates this UK release.
LP Matchbox SDM 231 Clark Kessinger Clark Kessinger Live at Union Grove 1972
M2 (light blue/silver) Trombone Rag;
Dill Pickle Rag;
Rose of My Heart Waltz;
Round Town Girl;
Whistling Rufus;
Sally Goodin;
Durang's Hornpipe;
Arkansas Traveller;
Old Joe Clark;
Down Yonder;
Turkey in the Straw;
Golden Slippers;
Billy in the Lowground;
Poca River Blues;

Textured sleeve.

Also includes Gene Meade, guitar & Gene Parker, banjo.

Matchbox Country Series Vol. 1 (Vol. 2 had a later release date, despite an earlier catalogue number - SDM 229). Originally released in the US on the Kanawha label with the catalogue number KANAWHA 312.
LP Saydisc SDL 232 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Mechanical Music Hall


Burlington Bertie From Bow (A);
After the Ball (B);
Nellie Dean (C);
Where Did You Get That Hat? (D);
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (E);
K. K. K. Katie (A);
Flanagan (C);
Hold Your Hand Out Naughty Boy (A);
Down At the Old Bull and Bush (F);
Lily Of Laguna (G);
If It Wasn't For the 'Ouses In Between (A);
Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey (C);
I Do Like To Be Beside the Seaside (F);
Ask a Policeman (D);
Don't Have Any More, Mrs. Moore (A);
The Ship I Love (H);
The Ship I Love (G);
Comrades (A);
Honeysuckle and the Bee (H);
Honeysuckle and the Bee (I);
Any Old Iron (A);
Boiled Beef and Carrots (A);
Cool Burgundy Ben (J);
Just a Wee Deock and Doris (A);
Little Dolly Daydream (I);
Our Lodger's Such a Nice Young Man (H);
Sister Mary Walked Like That (E);
A Broken Doll (C);
Knocked 'Em In the Old Kent Road (D);
My Old Dutch (A);
My Old Dutch (K);
My Old Dutch (F);
When You Wink the Other Eye (D);
My Old Man Said Fllow the Van (L);
Wiggy Voo (H);
The Boy I Love Is Up In the Gallery (A);
Ta Ra Boom De Ay (D);
Ta Ra Boom De Ay (A);
Miner's Dream Of Home (E);
Miner's Dream Of Home (H);
The Daring Young Man On the Flying Trapeze (A);
Not For Joseph (J);
Alexander's Ragtime Band (C).

A = Keith Prowse 'Pennyano' 48 note 'penny in the slot' piano (penny piano), probably made by Chiappa;
B = Excelsior Piccolo Musical Box, 12 air, 2 comb;
C = 48 note Street Piano marked by Angelo Tomasso;
D = 12 air cylinder Musical Box;
E = Orpheus Disc Piano;
F = Player Piano;
G = 24 1/2" disc Polyphon Musical Box;
H = 15 1/2" disc Regina Musical Box;
I = 9 1/2" disc Polyphon Musical Box;
J = 12 air, 2 comb cylinder Musical Box with Bells;
K = 10 5/8 disc Symphonium Musical Box;
L = 44 note Street Piano, possibly made by Rossie, marked by Angelo Tomasso;

Golden Age Of Mechanical Music, Vol. 10.

Music Hall favourites played by a varirty of Musical Automata from the Roy Mickleburgh collection.

Also issued on cassette, CSDL 232.

Existance confirmed of a white label test pressing.
LP Saydisc SDL 233 The Frank Evans Consort In An English Manner 1972
4 (purple/silver) Summer Song;
Greensleeves;
Ayre by Purcell;
In An English Manner;
Pavane - 'Lady Long of Wraxall';
Bouree;
Bach Double Violin Concerto, 1st Movement transcribed for 2 Guitars;
Scarborough fair;
The Girl With the Flaxen hair;
Longing for Baia;
Bach 2 Part Invention in D Minor;
A Pastoral Scene;
Air From the Suite No. 3 in D.

Sleeve by Plastic Dog.

Arrangements and transcription by Frank Evans. Also includes Graham Sothcott, bass and guitar, Ian Hobbs, drums and Ian McTier, bass. Four tracks are accompanied by the Barton String Quartet.

With a play on words in the title, as the music is inspired by an English manor house at Wraxall. Summer Song with the Barton String Quartet is possibly the most wonderful piece of music to come out of Saydisc.

Existence confirmed of a white label test pressing.
LP Saydisc SDL 234 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Parry's Barrel Organ 1973
4 (dark blue/silver) God Save the King/March in Blue Beard/Duke of York's March/Minuet by Vandermere (from Barrel No. 4);
Lady Montgomery's Reel/Miss Murray's Strathspey/Paddy O'Rafferty/The Chartreuse (from Barrel No. 4);
Devil Amongst the Taylors/Fife Hunt/Lord McDonald's Reel/Mrs. Gordon of Troop (from Barrel No. 3);
La Conservatoire/Ramah Droog/Speed the Plough (from Barrel No. 3);
Two unidentified titles (from Barrel No. 5);
100th Psalm/Morning Hymn/Sicilian Mariners/Portuguese (Adeste Fideles) (from Barrel No. 2);
Stowr Lodge/Mdm. Hillingbury/Lord Howis Reel/Highlandman - Reel/Polly Put the Kettle On (from Barrel No. 1);
Evening Hymn/German Hymn/36th Psalm/104th Psalm (from Barrel No. 2);
Three unidentified titles (from Barrel No. 5);

Includes insert.

Golden Age of Mechanical Music Volume II.

Sir William Edward Parry, the Polar explorer, took this barrel organ to Arctic and played it to the Eskimos, who evidently loved all forms of music!
LP Matchbox SDM 235 Gerge Pegram George Pegram


Mississippi Sawyer;
Workin' On a Building;
Little Old Log Cabin In the Lane;
John Henry;
Where Could I Go But To the Lord;
Wildwood Flower;
Never Grow Old;
Reubin;
What a Friend We Have In Jesus;
Over the Waves Waltz;
Johnson's Old Grey Mule;
In the Sweet Bye and Bye;
Are You Washed in the Blood?;
Just Because.

George Pegram, banjo, vocals; Clyde Isaacs, mandolin; Fred Cockerham, fiddle; Jack Bryant, guitar.

Textured sleeve.

Country Music Series - Volume 3.

UK reissue of Rounder 0001.

Existence confirmed of white label test pressing.
LP Matchbox SDM 236 Joe Val and the New England Bluegrass Boys One Morning In May

M2 (dark blue/silver) Comin' On Strong;
Live and Let Live;
the Little Paper Boy;
Do You Live What You Preach?
My Brother's Will;
Where the Old Red River Flows;
I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby;
Dark Hollow;
Come Walk With Me;
One Morning In May;
Ginger Brandy;
What Can I Do;
Sparkling Brown Eyes.

Joe Val, mandolin & vocals; Herb Applin, guitar & vocals; Bob French, banjo & vocals; Bob Tidwell, bass.

Textured sleeve.

Country Music Series - Volume 4.

UK reissue of Rounder 0003 - UK press still includes US matrix number in the run-off groove.

Existence confirmed of white label test pressing.
LP Matchbox SDM 237 Unknown Test Pressing


Existence confirmed of a white label test pressing, which has K 4390/K 4416 and ST 81370 scratched out on the run-off groove.

Music is fiddle, banjo, double bass, most likely licenced from Kanawha or Kokomo in the US.
LP Matchbox SDM 238 Snuffy Jenkins & Pappy Sherrill 33 Years of Pickin' and Pluckin'


Texas Quickstep;
Mountain Top/Shout Lulu;
Run, Boy, Run;
Cherry Blossom Waltz;
I Want My Rib;
Alabama Jubilee;
Nancy Rowland;
Milk Cow Blues;
Fifty Year Ago Waltz;
Kansas City Kitty;
C & NW Railroad Blues;
Lonesome Road Blues;
Shortenin' Bread;
Model T. Blues;
Coney Island;
Beaumont Rag;
When the Bumble Bee Backed Up To Me and Pushed;
Dreamy Georgia Moon;
Aunt Liza's Favourite;
Wagoner.

Snuffy Jenkins, banjo, washboard, guitar; Pappy Sherrill, fiddle; Dick Harmon, guitar; Budy Harmon, bass; Greasy Medlin, guitar, vocals.

Textured sleeve.

Country Music Series - Volume 5.

UK reissue of Rounder 0005 - UK press still includes US matrix number in the run-off groove.

Existence confirmed of white label test pressing.
LP Matchbox SDM 239 Happy Traum, Artie Traum, Maria Muldaur, John Herald, Eric Kaz, Jim Rooney, Bill Keith, Tony Brown, Lee Berg Mud Acres - Music Among Friends 1973

Cowpoke;
Done Laid Around;
Darlin' Corey Is Gone;
Titanic;
Give Me Back My Fifteen Cents;
Out of Joint;
Jackhammer Blues;
Oh, the Rain;
Hobo Blues;
Off To Sea Once More;
Fifteen Miles To Birmingham;
Out!;
Lonesome Pines;
Prison Wall Blues;
Parting Friends;
Mud Acres.

LP credits are taken from the original Rounder issue as no UK stock issue has been located.

Existence confirmed of a white label test pressing in plain white sleeve, which has ROUNDER 0011, 3001 and 17163 scratched out on the run-off groove.
LP Saydisc SDL 240 Various Artists Homage To Vaughan Williams 1973

Recorded by Gef Lucena and David Wilkins in Down Ampney Church. Photos by David Harrison.
LP Matchbox SDM 241 Hollow Rock String Band Hollow Rock String Band


Kitchen Girl;
Clog;
Waltz;
Dinah;
Richmond Cotillion;
Hog-Eyed Man;
Medley - John Brown's March/Green Fields of America/Hop Light Ladies;
Jawbones;
Betty Likens;
Cabin Creek;
Folding Down the Sheets;
Money Musk;
Devil On a Stump;
Over the Waterfall;
Fiddler's Drunk and the Fun's All Over.

Alan Jabbour, fiddle; Bert Levy, mandolin; Bobbie Thompson, banjo; Tommy Thompson, guitar.

Textured sleeve.

Matchbox Country Series, Vol. 8: traditional dance tunes. Fifteen traditional instrumental tunes, most of which were learned from Henry Reed.

Originally released in the US on the Kanawha label with the catalogue number KANAWHA 311.

Reissued on compact disc in the US in 1997 on the County label, CD-2715. Biographical sleevenotes for the CD reissue are by Jabbour and Thompson.

Existence confirmed of a white label test pressing.
LP Matchbox SDM 242 Curly Herdman Fiddler 1973

Turkey In the Straw;
Rachael;
Moonlight Waltz;
Old Joe Clark;
Meigs County Reel;
Under the Double Eagle;
Run Rabbit Run;
Dixie Howdown;
Runing Bear;
Big Tracy;
Billy In the Low Ground;
Rocus's Reel.

Curly Herdman, fiddle; Troy Herdman; Bob Tanner; Joe Tanner.

Textured sleeve, which includes Rodney Matthews' hardly ever used 'matchbox' logo.

Matchbox Country Music Series - Volume 7.

Existance is confirmed of a white label test pressing.
LP Saydisc SDL 243 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Change Ringing from St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol 1973
Purple/silver Grandsire Caters - 197 changes;
Stedman Cinques - 252 changes;
Little Bob Maximus - 176 changes;
Double Norwich Court Bob Major - 112 changes;
Erin Caters - 100 changes.

Bells of Britain, Vol. 3.

This was Saydiscs longest available record, which is still available via a new label following Saydisc's closure in 2003.

There's a great photo on the back of the sleeve - let's see if you can spot the person who wasn't actually there when the photo was taken, but was added later!

Also issued on cassette, CSDL 243.
LP Saydisc SDL 244 The Graham Collier Sextet Portraits 1972

Actually, this one might be credited to The Graham Collier Septet - I can't remember!
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.
LP Saydisc SDLB 246 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Music From Dartington 1973
4 (purple/silver) Fanfare;
Carlos - Down IN Yon Forest/A Virgin Most Pure;
Songs - In Prainse Of Arion/Song Of Hamon;
Spirituals - The Angels Done Bowed Down/Well, Well, Well;
Nonesuch;
Organ Concerto in F, Op. 4, No. 5 (Handel);
Carol - Te Haranui;
Piloo Thumri;
Pieces For Harpsichord - Tower Hill (Farnaby)/La Volta (Byrd);
Three Movements from Missa Brevis - Sanctus/Benedictus/Agnus Dei;
String Quartet in D, K. 575 - Slow Movement/Andante (Mozart);
Rounds - Humming Round/Great Radnor Hills/The Swan Sings/Hey, Ho, Nobody At Home/Derry Ding Ding Dason/Non Nobis Domine (Byrd)/Allelulia (Boyce).

Named musicians/singers/composers from the College are: Helen Glatz; Nigel Amherst; Dulce Marshall; Nicholas Marshall; Hilary Isaacs; Rachael Pardoe; Bertha Harley; Anne Maxey; Timothy Moore; Winsom Bartlett (ret'd); Roger Yates (member of staff or contractor?); John Wellington; Gordon Jones; Surendra Kamath; Anil Bhagwat; Julian Marshall; Hilary Reynolds; the Dartington String Quartet [Colin Sauer, Malcolm Latchem, Keith Lovell & Michael Evans]; Edith O'Hanrahan (former pupil); Timothy Porter (former pupil).

The LP was recorded to commemorate the 80th birthday of Leonard Elmhirst, mastermind behind Dartington Hall music school.
LP Saydisc SDL 247 Specialist: Spoken Word Cotswold Craftsmen 1973
4 (purple/silver) William Smith - Cotswold Sheep;
Edward and Cyril Pearce - Stone Walling;
Gilbert Peachey - The Cotswold Roof;
Miss Victoria Smith - Gloucester Cheese;
Dennis William Coates - Working with Oxen;
Alec Twinning - Hurdle Making;
Fred Saunders - The Wheelwright;
John Millard - Cider Making;
Walter Gardner - Thatching.

Also issued on cassette, CSDL 247

Existence confirmed of a white label test pressing in plain white sleeve.
LP Saydisc SDLB 248 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Music From the West Cornwall Museum of Mechanical Music 1973

Weber Unika - Title not known;
Piano Melodici - A Tripoli;
Mechanical Singing Bird;
Aeolian Orchestrelle - Smoky Smokes;
Symphonium Disc Musical Box - Faust Waltz/Mararethe;
Steck Duo Art Reproducing Piano - The Yam (played by Frank Milne);
Violano Virtuoso - Title not known;
Imhof & Muckle Drawing Room Barrel Piano - Casino Tanze;
Kuhl & Klatt Mandoline and Xylophone Piano - Ei Kantara;
Gem Roller Organette - Sailor's Hrornpipe;
Marshall & Wendell Ampico Reproducing Piano - By the Waters of Minnetonka (played by Zez Confrey, assisted);
Aeolian 116 Note Pipe Organ - In the Hall of the Mountain King;
65 Note Broadwood Player Piano - Side By Side;
Cylinder Musical Box With Bells - La Suive Cavat Dieu Nous Eclaire Fille Cherie;
Debrain Piano Mechanique - Gay arisienne;
Draper's Organette - Coming Through the Rye;
Edison Amberola (Phonograph Cylinder) - Light As a Feather.

Recorded by Ian and Maggie Anderson (nee Holland).

Originally sold at a budget price of £1.50, which was inconveniently printed on the sleeve, preventing Saydisc from putting the price up!

Existence confirmed of a white label test pressing.
LP Saydisc SDL 249 Quincicasm Quincicasm 1973


LP Flyright - Matchbox SDM 250 Various Artists Fort Valley Blues 1973

Mama You Goin' To Quit Me As Good As I Been To You (Allison Mathis);
Bottle Up & Go (Allison Mathis & Jessie Stroller);
Boll Weavil (Buster 'Buzz' Ezell);
Fort Valley Blues (The Smith Band);
War Song (Buster Brown);
Milk Cow Blues (Gus Gibson);
My Big Fat Hipted Mama (Charles Ellis);
Roosevelt & Hitler (part 1) (Buster 'Buzz' Ezell);
Roosevelt & Hitler (part 2) (Buster 'Buzz' Ezell);
Po' oy Long Way From Home (Sonny Chestain);
I'm Gonna Make You Happy (Buster Brown);
Railroad Song (Gus Gibson);
Salt Water Blues (Buster 'Buzz' Ezell);
Southern Rag (James Sneed, J. F. Duffy & Alvin Sanders);
John Henry (Allison Mathis & Jessie Stroller);
Blues - When Saints Come To Town (Jessie Stroller).

Library of Congress field recordings from Georgia, 1941 & Fort Valley State College, Fort Valley, Georgia, 5 - 7 March, 1943. Recorded by John Wesley Work (1941) and Willis Lawrence James & Lewis Wade Jones (1943).

In the Flyright-Matchbox Library of Congress Series (Volume 2 in the series).

Exists as a white label test pressing.
LP Saydisc SDL 251 White On Black White On Black 1974
White/black Country Roads;
Snowbird;
Big Yellow Taxi;
Scarborough Fair;
Bitter Green;
Meet Me On the Corner;
Carey;
Nowhere Man;
Bramble Cottage;
Together Forever;
Norwegan Wood;
I Don't Know How To Love Him.

Sue Franklin, Jon Knowler and Suzi Lawrence, supported on the LP by Al Jones, John Turner, and from the Pigsty Hill Light Orchestra, Jon 'Wash' Hays and Richard Gould.

For some reason (probably the inclusion of Alan Ashworth Jones), this LP commands a price tag of around £25 (various Record Collector Price Guides have said £70 and £40, but that's being a bit hopeful - as of 2004, the Guide value has gone down to £30: a bit more realistic).

Non-autographed copies are actually harder to find than autographed copies!

Jon Knowler is now a member of The Bristol shanty group, The Harry Browns.
LP Saydisc SDL 252 Jack Armstrong Celebrated Minstrel. 1974

Rothbury Hills;
Whittingham Green Lane;
Border Fray;
Proudlocks Hornpipe;
Redesdae;
Barbara Allen;
Buy Broom Bussoms;
Bobby Shaftoe;
Northumberland Rejoices;
Kielder Burnie;
Gentle Maiden;
Noble Squire Dacre;
Bonny At Morn;
Billy Boy;
Derwentwater's Faerwell;
Keel Row;
Lass of Falstone;
Peggy's Foot;
Wild Hills O'Wannie;
The Fair Flower of Northumberland;
6 band medleys.

Saydisc Traditional Series Vol.1.

A compilation from various sources, including Alan Lomax and the BBC, of Northumbrian piper Jack Armstrong - recorded 1944 and 1951. Includes solo and band pieces by the Northumbrian Barnstormers and the Northumbrian Minstrels Bands.
LP Saydisc SDL 253 Various Artists Rusty Rags


Pussyfoot March (Six Brown Brothers [Tom Brown, Guy Shrigley, James 'Slap Rags' White, Sonny Clapp, Harry Cook &Harry Fink]);
You're Here and I'm Here (Europe's Society Orchestra [led by James Reese Europe]);
Florida Rag (Fred van Eps and William van Eps with Felix Arndt);
Crazy Bone Rag (United States Marine Band, conducted by Lt. William Santelmann);
Maori (possibly with Charles A. Prince);
Trombone Sneeze (Sousa'a Band [including Walter B. Rogers, Arthur Pryor & Simon Maritia);
Bull Frog Blues (Six Brown Brothers);
Humpty Dumpty Rag (anonymous studio band);
Beets and Turnips (possibly with Charles A. Prince);
Smiles and Chuckles (Six Brown Brothers);
Castle Walk (Europe's Society Orchestra);
Darkies' Patrol (Vass L. Ossman with [possibly] Landon Ronald);
The Music Box Rag (Jaudus Society Orchestra);
Alabama Jubilee (possibly with Charles A. Prince);
Rusty Rags (Vass L. Ossman with C. H. H. Booth);
Castle House Rag (anonymous studio band);
Les Copeland's Rag (possibly with Charles A. Prince);
Wild Cherries Rag (Victor Orchestra conducted by Walter B. Rogers).

Ragtime, Cakewalks and Stomps - Vol. 4 (1900-1917).

Sleeve design by Rodney Matthews.

Existance confirmed of a white label test press with small labels.
LP Saydisc SDL 254 Derek Garside, William Davis, Haydn Harris, Lyndon Baglin Foursome for Brass

4 (purple/silver) Foursome for Brass (Spurgin);
An Eriskay Love Lilt (arr. Mortimer);
Fancy's Knell (Vinter);
Mary (Richardson);
Foresters Sound the Cheerful Horn (Bishop);
Concordia (Rimmer);
Butterfly Caprice (Ord-Hume);
Alla Burlesca (Vinter);
Good Night Beloved (Pinsuti).

Lyndon Baglin on euphonium, Derek Garside on cornet, William Thomas on cornet, and Hadyn Harris on tenor horn.
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.
LP Saydisc SDLB 256 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts More Music From the West Cornwall Museum 1974

Recorded by Ian and Maggie Anderson (née Holland).
LP Flyright - Matchbox SDM 257 Various Artists Out In the Cold Again

FM John Henry [vocals/guitar] (Gabriel Brown);
John Henry [guitar] (Gabriel Brown);
Casey Jones (Rochelle French & Gabriel Brown);
Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On (Rochelle French & Gabriel Brown);
Out In the Cold Again (Rochelle French & Gabriel Brown);
Blues (Gabriel Brown & Rochelle French);
Tone the Bell Easy (Gabriel Brown);
Motherless Child (Gabriel Brown);
Franky & Albert (Cooney & Delia) (John French & Gabriel Brown);
Po' Boy, Long Way From Home (Rochelle French & Gabriel Brown);
A Dream of Mine (Gabriel Brown);
Blues (I Ain't Got No Mama Now) [take 1] (Rochelle French & Gabriel Brown);
Blues (I Ain't Got No Mama Now) [take 2] (Rochelle French & Gabriel Brown);
What Did the Doodle-Bug Say To the Mole? (Rochelle French & Gabriel Brown);
Education Blues (Gabriel Brown & Rochelle French);
Talking in Sebastopol (Gabriel Brown & Rochelle French);
Careless Love (Gabriel Brown);
Uncle Bud (Rochelle French & Gabriel Brown);

Includes the same insert as that issued with SDM 258.

Library of Congress field recordings from Eatonville, Florida, June 1935. Recorded by Mary Elizabeth Barnacle, Zora Neale Hurston & Alan Lomax.

In the Flyright-Matchbox Library of Congress Series (Volume 3 in the series).

Exists as a black label test pressing.
LP Flyright - Matchbox SDM 258 Various Artists Boot That Thing

FM The Train (Booker T. Sapps);
The Fox & Hounds (Roger Matthews);
Alabama Blues [part 1] (Booker T. Sapps, Roger Matthews & Willy Flowers);
Alabama Blues [part 2] (Booker T. Sapps, Roger Matthews & Willy Flowers);
The Weeping Worry Blues (Booker T. Sapps & Willy Flowers);
Levee Camp Holler (Willy Flowers & Booker T. Sapps);
Uncle Bud [take 1 & take 2] (Booker T. Sapps, Roger Matthews & Willy Flowers);
Frankie & Albert (Booker T. Sapps, Roger Matthews & Willy Flowers);
Boot That Thing (Booker T. Sapps, Roger Matthews & Willy Flowers);
John Henry (Booker T. Sapps, Roger Matthews & Willy Flowers);
Po' Laz'us (Booker T. Sapps, Roger Matthews & Willy Flowers);
I'm a Pilgrim (Booker T. Sapps, Roger Matthews & Willy Flowers);

Includes the same insert as that issued with SDM 257.

Library of Congress field recordings from Belle Glade, Florida, June 1935. Recorded by Mary Elizabeth Barnacle, Zora Neale Hurston & Alan Lomax.

In the Flyright-Matchbox Library of Congress Series (Volume 4 in the series).

Exists as a black label test pressing.
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.
LP Matchbox SDM 261 Dave Peabody Keep It Clean 1974

Saydisc Matchbox label. Basically the same line-up as Tight Like That (Village Thing VTS 12).

Existence confirmed of a black label test pressing in plain white sleeve. Amusingly, the white sleeve includes the handwritten message, 'Reject TP - clicky thro A,' with the identifier 'JL' (John Lucena).
LP Saydisc SDLB 262 The Stanshawe (Bristol) Band Spectrum 1974
red/silver Spectrum (Gilbert Vinter);
Variations On a Ninth (Gilbert Vinter);
Academic Festival Overture (Brahms, arr. Denis Wright);
Suite Gothinque, Op. 25 (Leon Boellmann, arr. Eric Ball).

Subtitled 'The Rise to Fame of the Stanshawe (Bristol) Band'.

Conductor Walter Hargreaves.

This lot later changed their sponsor, and therefore their name to, firstly The Sun Life Stanshawe Band, and then to the shorter Sun Life Band.
LP Saydisc SDLB 263 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Poppers 'Happy Jazz Band' & the Ruth Fairorgan


Also issued on cassette CSDLB 263.
LP Flyright - Matchbox SDM 264 Various Artists Two White Horses Standin' In Line 1976

Rabbit In De Garden (Ace Johnson);
Mama Don't 'Low No Swingin' Out In Here (Ace Johnson & L. W. Gooden);
Worry Blues (Jesse Lockett);
I Wouldn't Mind Dying If Dying Was All (Smith Casey);
When I Git Home (Roger Gill & Smith Casey);
Gray Horse Blues (Smith Casey);
Shorty George (Smith Casey);
West Texas Blues (Roger Gill & Smith Casey);
Santa Fe Blues (Smith Casey);
Hesitating Blues (Smith Casey);
My Pore Mother Keeps On Praying For Me (probably Wallace Chains & Sylvester Jones);
Smoky Mountain Blues (possibly Wallace Chains & Sylvester Jones);
Ella Speed (probably Wallace Chains & Sylvester Jones);
Long Frieght Train Blues (Richard L. Lewis & Wilbert Gilliam);
Desert Blues (Hattie Ellis & 'Cowboy' Jack Ramsey);
Jack O' Diamonds (Smith Casey);
Mournful Blues (Smith Casey);
Two White Horses Standin' In Line (Smith Casey);
East Texas Rag (Smith Casey).

Includes insert with detailed notes.

Library of Congress field recordings from Clemens State Farm, Brazoria, Texas, Sunday 16 April, 1939; Camp Four, Ramsey State Farm, Otey, Texas, Sunday 23 April, 1939; State Penitentary, Huntsville, Texas, Thursday 11 May, 1939; Goree State Farm, near Huntsville, Texas, Sunday 14 May, 1939. Recorded by John Avery Lomax & Ruby Terril Lomax.

In the Flyright-Matchbox Library of Congress Series (Volume 5 in the series).
LP Flyright - Matchbox SDL 265 Various Artists Jack O' Diamonds 1976

Jack O' Diamonds (Pete Harris);
Square Dance Calls (Pete Harris);
He Rambled (Pete Harris);
Stavin' Chain (Tricky Sam);
The Buffalo Skinners (Pete Harris);
Alabama Bound [announcement] (Pete Harris with John Lomax speaking);
Thirty Days In Jail (Pete Harris);
Stavin' Chain [different take]
Ella Speed (Tricky Sam);
Jack & Betsy (Pete Harris);
Jack O' Diamonds [different take] (Pete Harris);
Blind Lemon's Song (Pete Harris);
The Red Cross Store (Pete Harris);
Police Special (Augustus 'Track Horse' Haggerty & [probably] Jack Johnson);
Hattie Green (Augustus 'Track Horse' Haggerty & [probably] Jack Johnson);
Is You Mad At Me? (Pete Harris);
It Was Early One Morning (Jack Johnson);
Up and Down Buildin' (the) K. C. Line [sic]
Carrie (Pete Harris);
Standing On the Border (Pete Harris);
I Met You Mama [plus announcement] (Augustus 'Track Horse' Haggerty & Jack Johnson with John Lomax speaking);
I Feel That Old Woman Is a Jinx To Me (Augustus 'Track Horse' Haggerty).

Includes insert with detailed notes.

Library of Congress field recordings from Richmond, Texas, May, 1934; State Penitentiary, Huntsville, Texas, Tuesday 20 November (some definitely recorded this date and some probably) and Wednesday 21 November, 1934; some probably recorded at State Penitentiary, Huntsville, Texas, either May/June or November, 1934. Recorded by John Avery Lomax & Alan Lomax.

In the Flyright-Matchbox Library of Congress Series (Volume 6 in the series).
LP Saydisc SDL 266 Staverton Bridge Staverton Bridge


Lyric insert.
LP Saydisc SDL 267 Specialist: Spoken Word Cotswold Voices

4 (red/silver) George and Dorcas Juggins - Snufftaking;
Jim Hitch - Weather predictions;
Bert Butler - 'Oss muckin';
William Clark - Rookstarving;
George and Dorcas Juggins - 'The Express';
Walter Gardner - Old Jack, the shepherd;
Godfrey Pain - 'A' ditchin' in the Fog';
Bert Butler - 'Bath Night';
George and Dorcas Juggins - Shopping expeditions to Bisley.

Also issued on cassette, CSDL 267
LP Saydisc SDL 268 Frank Mansell Cotswold Ballads 1975
4 (dark blue/silver) The Farm Dog (sung by Peter Tatham);
The Bells of Bisley (read by Frank Mansell);
Tim O'Leary (sung by Celia Carroll);
Old Inhabitants (read by Frank Mansell);
I Passed By the Fields (sung by Peter Tatham);
Cotswold Choice (read by Frank Mansell);
The Roads Go Down (sung by Celia Carroll);
The Wood (read by Frank Mansell);
In Wishanger Wood (sung by Peter Tatham);
The Spring Fox (read by Frank Mansell);
The Encounter (sung by Celia Carroll);
The Old Cricketer (read by Frank Mansell);
On Eldon Hill (read by Frank Mansell);
The Return (sung by Peter Tatham);
When the Fine Rain (sung by Celia Carroll);
Winter (read by Frank Mansell);
The Tramp In Spring (sung by Peter Tatham);
Lines For a Bereaved Libertine (read by Frank Mansell);
The Steeple It Stands (read by Frank Mansell);
The Wife (sung by Celia Carroll);
See These Hands (read by Frank Mansell);
The Cottagers Reply (read by Frank Mansell);
I'd Sooner Go Hedging (sung by Peter Tatham).
LP Saydisc SDL 269 Lyndon Baglin Showcase for the Euphonium 1975
4 (purple/silver) The Swan (Le Cygne) from Carnival of Animals;
Carnaval de Venise;
Plasir d'Amour;
Lucy Long;
Scarborough Fair;
Prelude, Theme & Variations;
Largo;
Spanish Dance;
Tarantella;
Yesterday.

Sleeve design by Rodney Matthews.

Also includes Meinir Heulyn, harp, Geoffrey Spratt, flute, Gavin Ashenden, flute, and Olwyn Wonncott, piano. Directed by William David Thomas.

The ubiquitous Lyndon Baglin, from the Forest of Dean, is probably best known for his stint(s) with Bristol's Stanshawe Band/Sun Life Band. Gef Lucena gets an arranger credit for "Yesterday", "Plaisir d'Amour", and "Scarborough Fair".
LP Matchbox SDX 270 Dave Peabody Come and Get It 1976

Come On Boys, Let's Do That Messin' Around;
Statesboro Blues;
San Francisco Bay Blues;
Hi-Heel Sneakers;
But I Forgive You;
Shut Your Mouth;
The Happy Blues;
Rock Little Baby;
Love In Vain;
My Friend Whiskey;
Sweet Georgia Brown;
You Can't Come IN;
Hard Man To Please;
Don't You Leave Me Here.

Dave Peabody with Hugh McNulty and Dave Griffiths, plus Nick Pickett, Bob Hall, Steve Rye & Jon 'Wash' Hays.
LP Saydisc SDLB 271 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Pipes, Barrels and Pins. Café and Parlour entertainment of yesteryear from West Country Musium of Mechanical Sound 1976

Also available on cassette, CSDLB 271.
LP Saydisc SDL 272 Pumpkin Pie Down the Cut 1976
Purple/silver Birmingham Lads;
Here Come the Navvies;
Navvy Boots;
Push Boys Push;
The Rosemary;
Hard Working Boater;
Manchester Ship Canal;
Up the Kennet and Avon;
Waterways Lament;
Poor Old Horse;
Operation Working Party;
Wild Canal;
Down the Cut.

Norma King and John Mills with John Turner and Owen Wonnacott.

Songs about the Canal Age.
LP Saydisc SDL 273 The Barbershop Harmony Clubs of Bristol & Reading and the Barrytones Quartet That Barbershop Style 1976
4 (brick red/silver) Give Me That Barbershop Style (A);
Back In Dad and Mother's Day (B);
Just a-Wearying For You; (B)
Alexander's Ragtime Band (B);
Bye Bye Blues (B);
Coney Island Baby (C);
Beautiful Isle of Somewhere (B);
Roses Of Success (B);
Battle Hymn of the Republic (B);
New Ashmolean Marching Society (D);
Let the Rest of the World Go By (D);
Margie (D);
For All We Know (D);
Something (C);
Goodbye My Lady Love (D);
Let's Get Together Again/Keep the Whole World Singing (A).

A = combined Bristol and Reading Choruses;
B = Bristol Chorus;
C = The Barrytones Quartet;
D = Reading Chorus.
LP Saydisc SDL 274 Sound In Brass Handbells Music By Sound In Brass Handbells

4 (turquoise/silver) Whistling Rufus;
On Wings Of Song;
March - The Washington Post;
Wiegenlied;
Selection - Stephen Foster Songs;
Life Let Us Cherish;
Polka - Quicksilver;
March - The Parade of the Tin Soldiers;
Air and Variations - The Ash Grove;
Original Rags;
Waltz - Tales from Vienna Woods;
Nola;
Medley - I've Heard It Before.

Also issued on cassette: CSDL 274.
LP Saydisc SDL 277 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Bells of the Norwich Diocese 1977

Bell ringing teams. Recorded by Nolan Golden and Jeff Gorrod.
LP Saydisc SDL 278 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts We Sing Barbershop Too! 1977

Various female barbershop teams. Recorded by Gef Lucena and David Wilkins at Fry Hall, Keynsham, near .
7" LP Saydisc 33 SD 279 Old Pete and John Christie Isambard Kingdom Brunel 1977
Light blue/black 7" 33 1/3rpm LP.
LP Saydisc SDL 280 Tish Stubbs & Sam Richards Invitation to America 1977

An Invitation To North America;
Callerforney;
The Balaena;
Betsy the Servingmaid;
Canadee-io;
Bold Princess Royal;
The Drifter;
Have Over the Water To Florida;
When That I Was Weary;
New York Gals;
Paul Jones;
Wolfe and Saunders;
I Wish That the Wars Were All Over;
The Banks of Newfoundland.

Subtitled 'The New World Seen Through English Folksong'.

Tish Stubbs & Sam Richards play harmonium, whistle, drum, guitar, accordion, Anglo concertina, spoons, mouth organ and Appalachian dulcimer.

Tish Stubbs & Sam Richards were both in Devon folk group, Staverton Bridge, who recorded SDL 266.
LP Saydisc SDL 281 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Leicester Barbershop Convention 1977

Various barbershop teams. Recorded by Gef Lucena and David Wilkins at The De Monfort Hall, .
LP Saydisc SDL 282 Barry Male Voice Choir Gloria 1977

Also issued on cassette as CSDL 282.

Recorded by Gef Lucena and David Wilkins at Fry Hall, Keynsham, near Bristol.
LP Saydisc SDL 283 Crawley Barbershop Chorus Double Gold 1978

Also issued on cassette as CSDL 283.

Recorded by Gef Lucena and David Wilkins at Fry Hall, Keynsham, near Bristol.
LP Saydisc SDL 284 Specialist: Spoken Word Steam & Harness


Howard Pritchett, Bibury - traction engines;
Fred Archer, Ashton-Under-Hill - Shire horses;
Emily Elliot - Severn & Thames Canal;
Lily Moss and Ernie Franklin - Severn & Thames Canal;
George King, Lechlade - building the Witney to Fairford railway branch;
William Crew - 'passenger lorry'.

Recollections of horses, canals, trains, etc.

Also issued on cassette CSDL 284.
LP Saydisc SDL 285 Miss Dorothy Blake Memories of Osbourne


Miss Dorothy Blake recalls her childhood at Osborne House, Isle of Wight and her memories of Queen Victoria and the Royal Family..

Also issued on cassette, CSDL 285.
LP Saydisc SDL 286 Various Artists Love Is A Song 1978

Also issued on cassette as CSDL 286.

Various barbershop quartets.
LP Saydisc SDL 287 Five In a Bar Lady Of Fortune 1978
Blue/black Barbershop quartet. Includes John Turner on bass and guitar, and even includes one of his own compositions.
LP Saydisc SDL 288 The Blue Note Jazz Band The Blue Note Jazz Band 1978

O Gee Say Gee You Ought To See My Gee-Gee From the Fiji Isles;
Blue Feeling;
Coffee Grinder;
'J'
Something You Got;
There'll Be Some;
Importance Of the Rose;
Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?;
High Life;
L. B. Blues;
T'Ain't No Sin.

Originally recorded by BBC Radio Bristol for a Jazz Tempo programme in 1978.

Roger Bennett, John Skuse, Chris Pearce, Ralph Laing, Wayne Chandler, Geoff Hancock & Crusty Martin, managed by Keith Yeates.

NOT Chris MacGregor's South African lot, nor Harold Melville's lot. This is BRISTOL's lot! Now fronted by Fred Wedlock's daughter, Hannah (2002).
LP Saydisc SDL 289 Sound In Brass Handbells Handbells In Harmony


Black & White Rag (Botsford);
Intermezzo from Cav. Rusticana (Macagni);
Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach);
Song Without Words No. 14 (Mendelssohn);
Covenry Carol/Silent Night;
The Ragtime Dance (Joplin);
Entry of the Gladiators (Fucik);
The Girl with the Faxen Hair (Debussey);
The Sycopated Clock (Leroy Anderson);
The Shepherd's Farewell (Berlioz);
Variations on Lead Kindly Light;
Savoy Christmas Medley.

Also issued on cassette: CSDL 289.
LP Saydisc SDL 290 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Bells of the Cotswolds 1978
Red Burford (Oxon.) - Double Norwich Court Bob Major;
Bledington (Glos.) - Cambridge Surprise Minor;
Stow-On-the-Wold (Glos.) - Grandsire Triples;
Moreton-In-Marsh (Glos.) - Kent Treble Bob Major;
Bourton-On-the-Hill (Glos.) - Plain Bob Minor;
Chipping Camden (Glos.) - Grandsire Triples;
Ebrington (Glos.) - Grandsire Minor;
Ilmington (Warks.) - Plain Bob Doubles.

Also issued on cassette: CSDL 290.
LP Saydisc SDL 291 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts The Sound of the Carillon 1978

Cuckoo Rondo (Daquin);
Du Bist die Ruh (Schubert);
Judas Maccabaeus, chorale (Handel);
Last Rose of Summer;
Llanfair (variations);
Schubert Serenade;
Variations on a Gospel Tune;
Rendezvous (Aletter);
Cockles and Muscles;
Air (Purcell);
Volte (Couperin);
La Ferlaude (from J. de Gruytters Carillion Book);
Crimond;
The Bellfounder (G. Nees);
Extract from Mignon (Thomas).

Music from the Bournville (48 bell) & Loughbourgh (47 bell) carillons.

Also issued on cassette, CSDL 291.
Cassette Saydisc CSDLB 292 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts The World of Mechanical Music


Museum tour recital.

Cassette-only issue.
LP Saydisc SDL 293 The Radio Bristol Singers So Beautiful 1978

Laura;
He Was Beautiful (Cavatina);
Let's Face the Music;
Speak Low;
Jungle Fantasy;
Chanson d'Amour;
Guantanamera;
Blue Moon;
Carnival;
Tropical Magic;
As Time Goes By;
Peanut Vendor;
Birth of the Blues;
Yellow Bird.

Mary Hale directs: Sylvia Badman; Mary Bennett; Doreen Brooks; Joan Clothier; Diana Gibb; Valerie Hancock; Gloria Hollister; Rosmarie Horne; Jane Lilley; Beverley Oxley; Barbara Pickwick; Jo Taylor; Jackie Venn; David Evans. The band is: Jack Toogood, electric, Hawaaian & acoustic guitars; Mike Hope, piano; Norman Cole, string & electric bass; Eddie Clayton, drums; Eddie Jones, tenor sax & flute.
LP Saydisc SDL 294 Kenneth Williams Parlour Poetry 1978

Jabberwocky;
Little Jim;
The White Knight's Song;
The Wreck of the Hesperus;
The Walrus and the Carpenter;
In the Workhouse: Christmas Day;
The Green Eye of the Yellow God;
The Pobbly Who Has No Toes;
Casabianca;
You Are Old Father William;
Bily's Rose;
Hiawatha's Photographing;
Come Home Father;
The Dong With the Luminous Nose.

Comic, patriotic and improving verse from the Victorian age.
LP Saydisc SDL 295 Various Artists Barbershop Convention - Caister 1978 1978

Music from the Roker Peers of Harmony (Wearside); Crawley Chordsmen; Great Western Chorus (Bristol); Newtown Ringers (Crawley); Class Distinction (Brighton & Hove); Harmony Raisers (Bristol).
LP Saydisc SDL 296 Stoke Original Theatre A Souvenir from Stoke


Lumpy Tums;
The Oatcake Ceremonial;
City of Smoke;
Silicosis;
Chalk and Cheese;
Jolly Potters;
Wedgwood Blues;
Cost Keck a Boe Agen a Woe;
and others.
LP Saydisc SDL 297 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Music For the Magic Lantern 1979
Yellow/black Mandoline Street Piano (D. Antonelli & Sons, 55 note) - Rule Britannia/Pomona Waltz;
Pasquale Street Piano (44 note) - The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo/Oh! Oh! Antonio;
Polyphon Disc Musical Boxes (A = 24 1/2"; B = 9 1/2") - Whistling Rufus (A)/The Dandy Queen (B)/The Messenger Boy (A);
Penny Piano - Goodbyee;
Pianola (Orchestrelle 65/88 note player attachment) - Ragtime Skedaddle;
Chiappa Street Piano (marked by A Tomasso, 48 note) - Put Me Amongst the Girls/At Trinity Church I Met My Doom/Colonel Bogey;
Mandoline Street Piano (D. Antonelli & Sons, 55 note) - Softly Awakes My Heart/Samson & Dalila;
Penny Piano - I've Got a Motto;
Polyphon Disc Musical Box (24 1/2") - Xenia, Intermezzo/Latter Polka ('The Laughing Policeman');
Pasquale Street Piano (44 note) - Molly O'Morgan/He Had To Get Out and Under/Roamin' In the Gloamin'/Charmaine;
Atlas Organette - Honeysuckle and the Bee/Bicycle Barn Dance Polka;
Street Piano (marked by A Tomasso, 48 note) - Soldiers of the Queen/Goodbye Dolly Gray/Let the Great Big World.

Sampler of previously issued music from the Mickleburgh collection. Much also appeared several years later on SDL 340, Music of the Streets.

Also issued on cassete CSDL 297.
LP Saydisc SDL 298 Grosmont Handbell Ringers Four In Hand



LP Saydisc SDL 299 Specialist: Nature South Atlantic Islands


Early Morning Atmosphere;
Coastal Scene;
Paraguayan Snipe;
Grass Wren;
Guanaco;
Southern Elephant Seal;
Black-Browed Albatross;
Patagonian Fox;
Falkland Thrush and Thin-Billed Prion;
Evening Atmosphere - Black Oystercatchers;
Steamer Ducks;
Red-Backed Buzzard;
Military Starling;
Sea Lion;
Magellan Penguin;
King Penguins and Gentoo Penguin Colony;
Rockhopper Penguin Colony and Black-Browed Albatross;
Fur Seal;
Short-Eared Owl;
Falkland Diving Petrels;
Sooty Shearwaters - White-Dhinned Petrels - Greater Shearwaters;

Recorded by Ian J. Strange (who also provided sounds for the Ribena, Sounds of the Sea, flexidisc) between 1966 and 1978. Locations are Volunteer Point, Carcass Island, Kidney Island, Staats Island, Cow Bay, New Island, Stanley, West Point Island, Mount William, Beauchene Island, Volunteer Rocks, Bird Island.
LP Saydisc SDL 300 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Whistle Songs and Humour of the Cotswolds


Ned Wheeler of Lower Swell;
Jim Turner of Tetbury;
Howard Pritchett of Bibur;
Arthur Sallis of Dumbleton;
William and Mary Crew of Elkstone;
Frank Wheatcroft of Chipping Campden;
Charles and Lawrence Ladbroke of Chipping Campden;
Fred Archer of Ashton Under Hill;
Tom Steward of Tirley.

On the Special Limited Edition label design.

Songs, tales and jokes from the Cotswolds.
LP Saydisc SDL 301 Mrs. Emily Elliott Down To Earth



LP Saydisc SDL 302 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Church Bells of Kent 1979
Green Canterbury Cathedral - 12 bells, Grandsire Cinques;
Hythe - 8 bells, Bristol Surprise Major;
Leeds - 10 bells, Kent Treble Bob Royal (where the first ever peal of this kind was rung in 1784);
Chislet - 6 bells, Stedman Doubles;
Ashford - 10 bells, Grandsire Caters;
Brookland - 6 bells, S. Clements College Bob Minor;
Lyminge - 8 bells, Double Norwich Court Bob Major;
Rochester Cathedral - 10 bells, Stedman Caters;
Beckenham - 10 bells, Plain Bob Royal;
Maidstone - 10 bells, Plain & Little Bob;
plus 4 more tracks.

Kent County Association of Change Ringers' Centenary record.

Also issued on cassette, CSDL 302..
LP Saydisc SDL 303 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Sublime Harmony


Vals des Fees/Largo/Wedding Song from Lohengrin (all A);
I Have a Song To Singo/Servants Chorus (both B)/two examples (C);
Selection from 'Maritana'/The Lost Chord/War March of the Priests (all A);
Example (D)/Mira O Norma (A)/Perche non Posso (E)/Sweethearts (F)/Behold the Lord High Executioner (G)/Feniculi Fenicula (A);
March of the Toreadors (A)/Ah! Non Giunge (H)/Ave Maria (A)/Cara Deh Attendini (H);
Wedding March/The Village Blacksmith/Libiamo (all A);
The Legacy/The Campbells Are Coming/Kate Kearney (all F);
La Serenade: Valse Espagnole/Entry March (both A)/Voici le Sabre/Stride la Vampa (both I);
Waltz from Faust/Hellelujah Chorus (both A).

A = 24 1/2" disc Polyphon musical box;
B = Excelsior Piccolo 12 air cylinder musical box;
C = Nicole Freres 19 1/2" Interchangable Cylinder, Forte Piano musical box;
D = Nicole Freres 12" Cylinder, Overture Box;
E = Nicole Freres 6 air cylinder musical box;
F = 8 air cylinder box, makers unknown (several);
G = Sublime Harmonie 8 air cylinder musical box;
H = Nicole Freres 10 air cylinder musical box;
I = Nicole Freres 12 air cylinder musical box;

Also issued on cassette, CSDL 303.
Cassette Saydisc SDL 304 Specialist: Nature Gloucestershire Wildlife Tapestry 1979

Spring (day);
Summer (day);
Autumn (day);
Winter (day);
Spring (night);
Summer (night);
Autumn (night);
Winter (night).

Some copies included a membership form and deed of covenant for joining The Gloucestershire Trust for Nature Conservation.

Cassette issue, CSDL 304, included a fold-out insert.

The sounds of nature by day and night through the seasons from woodland, wetland and meadow: birds, foxes, deer, etc. Recorded by Ray Goodwin.
LP Saydisc SDLB 305 Specialist: Railway Steam's Final Hours


Hailwood - Aintree branch (8F 48198);
Pighue Lane, Liverpool (Class 5 45287);
Kirkby (Class 5 73069);
Lime Street (8F 48033);
Hoghton, on the Preston - Blackburn line (Class 5 45388 & 8F 48775);
Manchester - Southport, recorded from train (Class 5 44888 & Britannia 70013, Oliver Cromwell);
Various locomotives at scene of derailment, Rose Grove, near Burnley:
Approaching Manchester Victoria (Class 5 44871, 44894 & 45305);
The last official steam hauled train, Liverpool - Carlisle (Class 5 45110, 44871 & 44781 & Britannia 70013, Oliver Cromwell).

Recordings made during the final days of steam on British Railways metals during 1968.

Also issued on cassette CSDLB 305.
LP Saydisc SDL 306 Specialist: Railway Nocturnal Steam


Acton Grange Junction - Crewe line (8F 48198 & Class 5 45323);
Grand Junction Railway Bridge over the Mersey (unidentified 8F, Class 5 45055, unidentified 9F, etc.);
Frodsham Hill, on the Warrington - Chester line (A3 4472, Flying Scotsman);
Beeston, south of Leeds (Castle 7029, Clun Castle);
Pighue Lane, Liverpool (8F 48722, etc.);
On-board train between Leeds and Bradford (Jubilee 45593, Kolhapur).

Recordings made by Andrew Mellor at evening and night during 1967 and 1968, the last two years of steam operation on British Rail metals.

Also issued on cassette CSDLB 220.
LP Saydisc SDL 307 Launton Handbell Ringers Modal Melodies


The Lord of the Dance;
The Ashgrove;
Linden Lea (Vaughan Williams);
O Waly Waly;
O Guter Mond;
Brahms' Lullaby;
Finlandia (Sibelius);
Nos Galan;
Joy to the Workd (Handel);
The Cherry Tree Carol;
Down With the Rosemary and Bays;
A New Year Carol (Britten);
The Gloucestershire Wassail;
Patapan;
Little Donkey;
The Little Drummer Boy;
Tyrolean Cradle Song, Rocking;
In the Bleak Mid-Winter (Holst).
LP Saydisc SDL 308 Ray Goodwin Fox Not released?

Presumably unissued as Gef Lucena has the word "unpublished" next to this issue in his master listing.
LP Saydisc SDX 309 Timothy Davies Kilvert's Diary 1980

Part One: Singing up the nave like a company of angels;
Part Two: If gold would keep you with us we would gather a weight of gold;
Part Three; It began with a lass and will end with a lass;
Part Four: The strong sweet cup of life.

Subtitled - 'He Being Dead Yet Speaketh'. Read by Timothy Davies with music by: Ann Young, harmonium; Ann Griffiths, Welsh harp; Nick Oliver, concertina; Steve Glennie Smith, fiddle; John Ralph, flagolet.

Double play length LP, hence the SDX catalogue number.

Gef Lucena has the following to say about this issue on his master list: "The vinyl version was a unique "Double Play Length". Specially mastered by Gerald Reynolds of Nimbus it was a pioneering experiment and successfully squeezed 90 minutes over the LP (normal maximum depending on the sound material was around 50). The sound level on disc is very good and no problems with playing the LP were ever reported to Saydisc. However, the most perfect cutting lacquers were needed (perhaps 1 in 20 was good enough) and it needed, from memory, 6 cuts before successful - this perfect set was then dropped prior to growing the mother discs and the cutting procedure started again. It was not an economic way to produce LPs but proved what could be done. Nimbus then developed their own CD cutting and pressing plant which was the first in the UK by several years."
LP Saydisc SDL 310 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Change Ringing on Handbells



LP Saydisc SDLB 311 Specialist: Railway Iron-Ore Steamers


A medley of sounds of Andrew Barclay Nos. 11 & 19 (0-4-0) bringing loaded wagons through the woods, up the gradient to the main line and returning with empty wagons;
Recordings of 'Caerphilly' (0-6-0) from trackside and cab climbing the gradient and returning.

Storefield Quarry line recordings, 1968.

Initially issued on cassette CSDLB 311, prior to LP issue.
LP Saydisc SDL 312 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts The Gay 90's 1980

SONGS FROM THE SHOWS:
A Runaway Girl - The Singing Girl/Land of My Home/Far Away Over the Sea/Society/Soldiers In the Park (all A);
Robin Hood (selection, all B);
Florodora - The Shade of the Palm (A)/Silver Star of Love (C)/
The Shade of the Palm (D);
Belle of New York - They All Follow Me/We'll Stand & Die Together (both A)/We'll Stand & Die Together (D)/The Purity Brigade/The Anti-Cigarette Society (both A)/The Purity Brigade (D);
The Geisha - Chin Chin Chinaman/The Amorous Goldfish (both A);
A Greek Slave and San Toy - I'm a Naughty Girl/I Want To Be Popular (both C)/Rhoda and Her Pagoda (A);
POPULAR SONGS & PIECES:
A Dozen Discs from miniature to massive - Mister Cupid (E)/Down the Road (F)/Pride of the Ball, Waltz (G)/The Birdseller (C)/
Star Lghti, Star Bright (H)/Song of the Nightingale (I)/Happy New Year Polka (J)/Home Sweet Home (N)/The Birdseller (D)/Just As the Sun Went Down (M)/Tom Titt (A)/Soldiers of the Queen (L);
Canary and Nightingale Warble (B);
Evergreens, Stephen Foster Songs, Gay 90's Favourites - Old Folks at Home (D)/Soldiers of the Queen (C)/The Holy City (J)/I Wish I Was In Dixie (F)/Love's Old Sweet Song (I)/The Last Rose of Summer (C)/Daist Bell (A);
Miscellany - Skylark, Skylark (AKA The Boys Message) (M)/Sunshine Above (F)/Whisper and I Shall Hear (A)/Where Is My Boy Tonight (H)/Queen of the Earth (A)/Waves of the Danube (F)/God Save the Queen (M).

A = 24 1/2" Polyphon disc;
B = Orchestrelle player attachment & Bechstein Grand Piano);
C = 9 1/2" disc Polyphon;
D = 15 1/2" disc Polyphon;
E = 4" disc Thorens;
F = 6 1/2" disc Polyphon;
G = 7 1/2" disc Polyphon;
H = 10 5/8" disc Symphonion;
I = 11" disc Polyphon;
J = 11 3/4" disc Symphonion;
K = 22" disc Polyphon;
L = 27" disc Regina;
M = 22" disc Polyphon with Glockenspiel;
N = 13 5/8" disc Symphonion.

All from the Roy Mickleburgh collection.

Also issued on cassette, CSDL 312.
LP Saydisc SDLB 313 Specialist: Railway Return To Steam Vol. 1



LP Saydisc SDLB 314 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Devon Museum of Mechanical Music July 1981

Cassette issued, CSDL 314.
LP Saydisc SDL 316 Various Artists Forest Talk 1981

Pie Yuttin' (Keith Morgan);
The Lurcher (Dick Brice);
The New Technique (Harry Beddington);
The 'Azards O' Chimuck Szwippin' (Keith Morgan);
Washin' Day (Winifred Foley);
I Remember, I Remember (Dick Brice);
Up Fer the Cup (Keith Morgan);
Big Ambitions (Winifred Foley);
'Ers Zed As 'Er Could, 'Ers Zed As 'Er Should, 'Ers Zed As 'Er Ood, But 'Er Oon't (Dick Brice);
Varest Ship (Keith Morgan);
The Hat (Winifred Foley);
West of Severn East of Wye (Harry Beddington);
A Forester's Epitaph (Keith Morgan).

An evening of songs, poetry and humour from the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, recorded live at the Angel Hotel, Coleford.

Also issued on cassette, CSDL 316.
LP Saydisc SDL 317 Lawrence James Late Night Extra


I Know That You Know;
It's the Talk of the Town;
Goody Goody;
A Kiss In the Dark;
Late Night Extra;
Lazy River;
Glen Millr Selection - I Know Why/Tuxedo Junction;
I Won't Dance;
All the Things You Are;
Alley Cat;
Love's Last Word Is Spoken;
Walkin' My Baby Back Home;
Burt Bacharach Selection - The World Is a Circle/I'll Never Fall In Love Again/Do You Kow the Way To San Jose;
After You've Gone.

The Buckingham Town Hall Wurlitzer.
LP Saydisc SDL 318 The Mammoth Gavioli Fair Organ Bioscope Memories


Midnight Cakewalk Ball;
Row Row Row;
My Mother's Rosary;
Battleship Connecticut March;
Boston Waltz;
Ching Chong;
Sunny Side Up;
Back to Carolina;
99 Out Of 100;
Tell Me That You Love Me;
Our Directior;
Espana;
My Croony Melody.
LP Saydisc SDL 319 Specialist: Railway Return To Steam



LP Saydisc SDL 320 Norman Goodland My Old Chap 1981

Why do the birds zing, Feyther?;
You'd like to thatch your roof, Zur?;
My Missus be a-brass cleanun!;
Prayer for rain;
Ellen Sims;
When zun d'dip;
Up beside the pig pens;
The poacher;
The drowner;
I didn't knaw Jes'ad passed awaay!
Let's gwo up to Troaks, Jim!;
My old chap;
I be feared;
Land Army Gals;
My wife d'zz things in the sky;
I do luv'ee;
Neil the ploughman;
The rollerman;
Cuckoo be come;
Oh Jimmy-bwoy;
The Poltergeist;
Christmas be come;
When wind d'blaw;
I thank 'e Lard.

Norman Goodland reads his Wessex verse, recalling the rural Hampshire of his father's time.
Cassette Saydisc SDLC 322 Geoffrey Woodruff Geoffrey Woodruff Entertains


Cassette-only issue. This was a compilation of previously-released material from the 7" LPs 'The Sounds of Bristol' (33SD 245) and 'Geoffrey Woodruff Live' (33SD 259).
LP Saydisc SDL 323 Ronald Curtis Compton Theatre Organ



LP Saydisc SDL 324 Ronald Curtis Yes, I Remember It Well 1981

When I Take My Sugar To Tea;
Yes, I Remember It Well;
Amor Amor;
Yesterday;
Syncopated Clock;
La Mer;
Walk Right Back;
True Love;
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter;
Sway;
Dream;
Begin the Beguine;
Smile;
Caravan;
I'll Be Seeing You;
Bei Mir Bist Du Schon;
Wunderbar;
Perfidia.

Ronald Curtis at the Conn Electronic Organ.
LP Saydisc SDL 325 Jing Ying Soloists Like Waves Against the Sand 1981

Chinese Martial Arts;
The Flower Fair;
The Flowing Streams;
Night;
Shenpadei Folksong;
The Races;
Love At the Fair;
Suzhou Scenery;
The High Moon.

Tong Leung-tak, Lam Si Kwan, Chan Man Cheong, Chan Ki Chan and Ho Man Chuen. Instruments are pi-pa, er-hu, di-zi, yang-qin and Chinese percussion.

Also issued on cassette, CSDL 325, and on CD, CD-SDL 325.

Traditional music from China. They were recorded by Gef Lucena and David Wilkins whilst the group were on a London tour between 5th and 26th March, 1981. The live performances were accompanied by a dance troup consisting of ten girls.
LP Saydisc SDL 326 Alain Presencer The Singing Bowls Of Tibet 1981

Invocation;
Shepherd's Song;
Bowl Voices;
Lullaby;
Bon-Po Chant;
Lamentation;
Symphony of the Bowls.

Instruments played: conch horn (dung); yak horn (dzo-dung); gong (khar-rgna); shepherd's flute (gling-bu);spinning cymbal (rol-mo); human femur (rkang-gling); sacred bronze handbell (dril-bu); small hanging bell cymbals (ding-sha); panic bowl; cloud bowl; star bowl; wandering gold bowl; speaking bowl; large bowl.

Also issued on CD, CD-SDL 326, and cassette, CSDL 326.
LP Saydisc SDL 327 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Enchanted Carols 1981
Blue/white The Bells of St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol (change ringing) and Hark the Herald Angels Sing (medley from Street Piano, 15 1/2" disc Regina Musical Box, Roller Barrel Organ, Nicole Freres cylinder Musical Box and Orpheus Disc Piano);
A Virgin Most Pure (choir with handbells from Dartington Hall);
Jingle Bells (Penny Piano) and Star of Bethlehem (15 1/2" disc on Polyphon and Regina Musical Boxes);
Carol Medley - Angels From the Realms of Glory/Away In a Manger/O Little Town of Bethlehem/The First Nowell (Four In Hand, Grossmont Handbell Ringers);
Carol Medley - As With Gladness Men Of Old/Glory To God In the Highest/See Amidst the Winter Snow (Sun Life Stanshawe Band);
O Come All Ye Faithful (medley from Street Piano, Parry's Barrel Organ, Nicole Freres cylinder Musical Box, Orpheus Disc Piano);
Silent Night (Sound In Brass Handbells, medley from Symphonium and Polyphon Disc Musical Boxes);
Dow In Yon Forest (choir with handbells from Dartington Hall);
God King Wenceslas (medley from 15 1/2 " disc played on Polyphon and Regina Musical Boxes, 22" disc Polyphon and Street Piano);
Carol Medley - Little Jesus Sweetly Sleep (Rocking)/Little Drummer Boy/Deck the Hall (Nos Galan)/Little Donkey (The Launton Handbell Ringers);
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night (Street Piano)/Auld Lang Syne (15 1/2" disc on Polyphon and Regina Musical Boxes)/The Bells of St. Mary Redcliffe (change ringing).

Sampler celebrating Christmas with Victorian musical boxes, handbells, church bells, barrell organs, street pianos, and brass band. All titles previously issued on: SDL 243; SDL 328; SDL 232; SDL 312; SDL 297; SDL 303; SDL 117; SDL 132; SDL 181.

Also issued on cassette, CSDL 327.
LP Saydisc SDL 328 The Sun Life Stanshawe Band Conductor's Showcase 1981

Fanfare;
Promenade;
Bone Idyll;
Alborado del Gracioso;
Fugue in E flat;
The Stars and Strip Forever;
Night Flight To Madrid;
When the Boat Comes In;
Ave Verum;
Cranberry Corner USA;
The Shepherd's Song;
Leviathan;
Hungarian Dance;
Yodelling Brass.

Derek Bourgeois conducts tracks 1 - 6; Cliff Sayers conducts tracks 7 & 8; Laurie Hinchley conducts tracks 9 & 10; Brian Howard conducts tracks 11 & 12; David Williams conducts tracks 13 & 14.

Band comprises: Jim Bell; Kevin Robbins; John Griffin; Ian Dickinson; Ralph Rowden; Steve Ruck; Roy Jennings; Doug Keepin; Graham Jones; Ted Walker; John Paeke; Martyn Coward; Dave Williams; Kevin Ford; Philip Gregory; Lyndon Baglin; Charley Brighton; Terry Jennings; Steve Didcott; Steve Walkley; Dave Alderman; Dave Byett; Derek Horsfall; Ray Hunt; Tony Nash; Bob Milsom; Tim Joint; Bernard Morgan.

The Stanshawe Band had changed sponsor to, you've guessed it, Sun Life. It would have been a daft move to change their name completely, because as "The Stanshawe Band" they had one of the best reputations in the country. So this rather unwieldy compromise was hit upon for a while, before the band parted company from Saydisc. When the band set up their own label, they changed their name to The Sun Life Band, but called their label stanShawe (yes, with a capital "s" in the middle and a lower case one at the start).
LP Saydisc SDL 329 Various Artists South Zeal Project No released?

Presumably unissued as Gef Lucena has the word "unpublished" next to this issue in his master listing.
LP Saydisc SDL 330 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Music from Prinknash Abbey 1982

Abbey Bells and Introit - Spiritus Domini. Mode VIII;
Alleluia - Emitte Spiritum tuum. Mode IV;
Hymn - Christe Redemptor omnium. Mode I;
Hymn - Vexilla Regis prodeunt. Mode I;
Hymn - Veni Creator Spiritus. Mode III;
Hymn - Adoro te devote. Mode V;
Hymn - Virgo Dei Genitrix. Mode II;
Offertory Verse - Ave Maria. Mode VIII;
Magnificat Antiphon - Montes Gelboe. Mode I;
Motet - Ave Verum Corpus. Mode VI;
Antiphon - Salve Regina. Mode I;
Processional - Spiritus Domini. Mode VIII;
Psalm 45 - God is for us a refuge and strength;
Hymn - Christ our Saviour, from the Father;
Psalm 138 - O Lord you examine me and know me;
Hymn - Into the silence of our hearts;
Psalm 137 - I thank you Lord with all my heart;
Hymn - Eternal living Lord of all;
Responsory - An angel came and stood at the alter;
Hymn - We praise you, Father, for your gifts;
Anthem - We greet you, holy Queen;
Magnificat.

Also issued on cassette, CSDL 330.

English chant and Latin plainchant.
LP Saydisc SDL 331 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts The Road to Heaven: Mechanical Music for a Victorian Sunday 1982

Old Favourites - Abide With Me (G)/Judas Maccabaeus (F)/The Lost Chord (H)/When I Survey the Wondous Cross (L)/How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds (L)/Lead Kindly Light (E)/Nearer My God To Thee (G);
Hundredth Psalm (All People That On Earth Do Dwell (A, B, L & C);
Redemption and Revival - Shall We Meet Beyond the River (F)/Only an Armour Bearer (L)/I Will Sing of My Redeemer (K)/Scatter Seeds of Kindness (G)/Shall We Gather at the River (L)/Beaulah Land (I)/The Holy City (F)/The Holy City (M);
Hanover (O Worship the King) (A & B);
Christians Awake (H & L);
Rock of Ages (H, K, L & F);
Morning and Evening Hymns - Morning hymn (A)/Morning hymn 'Awake My Soul' (B)/Evening hymn (B)/Evening hymn (C);
More Redemption and Revival - Onward Christian Soldiers (G)/Onward Christian Soldiers (H)/Rescue the Perishing (L)/What Shall the Harvest Be (E)/We'll Work Till Jesus Comes (I)/Washed In the Blood of the Lamb (H)/Safe in the Arms of Jesus (L)/What a Friend We Have in Jesus (K);
Austria (Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken) (D, J & G);
Churc Barrel Organ miscellany - Sicilian Mariners (A)/Helmsley (A)/Luther's Hymn (B)/London New (B)/Mount Ephraim (C)/
God Save the Queen (C).

Instruments from the Mickleburgh collection:

A = Church pipe barrel organ (Muir Wood & Co., c. 1820);
B = Church pipe barrel organ (Anon. maker, c. 1790, barrels repinned by Robson c. 1825);
C = Church pipe barrel organ (Astor, c. 1800);
D = Polyphon disc musical box (9 1/2" discs);
E = Symphonium disc musical box (10 5/8" discs);
F = Symphonium disc musical box (11 3/4" discs);
G = Regina disc musical box (15 1/2" discs);
H = Polyphon disc musical box (15 1/2" discs);
I = Celestina paper roll organ (reed);
J = Atlas Organette (reed);
K = The Cabinet roller barrel organ (reed);
L = Orpheus disc piano;
M = Street piano, anon. maker.

Also released on cassette, CSDL 331.
LP Saydisc SDL 332 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts All Around England and Back Again 1982
Blue/white Helston, Cornwall - The Furry Dance and Hal-an-Tow;
Padstow, Cornwall - Hobby Horse Day;
Castleton, Derbyshire - Oak-apple/Garland Day;
Bampton-in-the-Bush, Oxfordshire - The Whit-Monday Morris;
Abbots Bromley, Staffordshire - The Horn Dance
Antrobus, Cheshire - The Soul-cakers;
Barrow-on-Humber, Lincolnshire - The Plough-Jags;
Far & Near Sawrey, Cumbria - The Easter Jolly-boys;
Wassailers: Charlie Bate, Padstow, Cornwall/Fred Adams, Minehead, Somerset/Harry & Walter Sealey, Ash Priors, Somerset.

Also issued on cassette, CSDL 332.

Recordings of folk music, traditions, dances, children's games, dialect, stories and rituals from around the country, recorded by Peter Kennedy.
Cassette Saydisc SDL 333 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Ringing Clear - The Art of Handbell Ringing


Three teams included. This was a compilation of music from 'Music By Sound In Brass Handbells' (SDL 274), 'Four In Hand' (SDL 298), 'Change Ringing on Handbells' (SDL 310) and 'Handbells In Harmony' (SDL 289).
Cassette Saydisc CSDL 334 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Cylinder Jazz


Presumably also issued on LP. From Edison Blue Amberol phonograph cylinders.
LP Saydisc SDL 335 Jim Couza The Enchanted Valley 1983

Jenny Lind Medley;
Intrada & Minuet;
Londonderry Air Medley;
Nola;
The High Cauled Cap Medley;
Christine's Medley;
Devil's Dream;
The Enchanted Valley;
La Belle Katherine Medley;
Norwegan Wood;
Flowers of England/The Snowflake;
Los Ejes De Mi Carretta;
The Perfect Cure Medley;
Take Five.

Jim Couza, hammered dulcimer and vocals, Eileen Monger, Celtic harp & whistle, Michael Punzak, violin, Peter Kennedy, melodeon, Frank Evans, Spanish guitar and Duncan Brown, acoustic bass.

Also issued on cassette, CSDL 335.

It is very nice to see the superlative Frank Evans recording again for saydisc, even if only on two tracks.
Cassette Saydisc CSDL 336 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts I'll Dance Till De Sun Breaks Through


Presumably also issued on LP. Ragtime from old 78's.
Cassette Saydisc CSDL 337 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts The Bells of London


Presumably also issued on LP. Westminster Abbey, St. Pauls, Bow, St. Clements.
LP Saydisc SDL 338 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Children's Singing Games


England, Singing Games;
England, Dipping Rhymes;
England, Skipping;
England, Clapping;
England, Two-ball games;
England, More Singing Games;
Wales, Skipping, Chasing, etc.;
Southern Ireland, Clapping, etc.;
Scotland, Skipping, etc.

Includes insert.

Recordings made between 1960 and 1982.

Also issued on cassette, CSDL 338.
LP Saydisc SDL 339 Wild Thyme Wild Thyme Plays Fallibroome


Also issued on cassette, CSDL 339.

Country dances.
LP Saydisc SDL 340 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Music of the Streets 1983

Street Piano (Pasquale & Co., 44 note) - The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo/I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts/Charmaine/Oh! Oh! Antonio;
Cylinder Piano (Bristol) - three unidentified tunes;
Mandoline Street Piano (D. Antonelli & Sons, 55 note) - La Marseillaise/Pomone Waltz/Rule Britannia;
Atlas Organette (German, 1890s) - Honeysuckle and the Bee/Just One Girl, Waltz/Bicycle Barn Dance Polka;
Street Piano (marked by A. Tomasso, 44 note) - The Bells of St. Mary's;
Street Piano (marked by A. Tomasso, 48 note) - Soldiers of the Queen/Goodbye Dolly Gray/Let the Great Big World;
Street Piano (Pasquale & Co., 44 note) - Molly O'Morgan/Little Dolly Daydream/Roamin' in the Gloamin'/He Had To Get Out and Get Under;
Cylinder Piano (Bristol) - two unidentified tunes/Sailor's Hornpipe/unidentified tune;
Cabinetto Paper-Roll Organ (late 19th C.) - Gathering Sea Shells by the Sea Shore/Old Zip Coon/Old Rosin the Beau;
Mandoline Street Piano (D. Antonelli & Sons, 55 note) -Softly Wakes My Heart/Sweetheart/unidentified tune;
Tremelo Street Piano (Pasquale & Co., 48 note) - Little Old Mill/Now Is the Hour;
Celestino Paper-Roll Organ (late 19th C.) - Jesu Lover Of My Soul/Men Of Harlech/Pull For the Shore;
Street Piano (Chiappa Ltd., marked by A Tomasso, 48 note) - At Trinity Church I Met My Doom/Colnel Bogey.

Also issued on cassette, CSDL 340, and CD, CD-SDL 340.

A slightly different version of this LP was issued c1967 as SDL 121 under the same title.

Mechanical street entertainment from the collection of Roy Mickleburgh. Recordings made between 1965 and 1979.
LP Saydisc SDL 341 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Carillons of Scotland 1984

Scoth On the Rocks;
Mariners' Hymn (O Sanctissima);
Esteritta;
Estudio 5 for Guitar;
See the Conquering Hero Comes;
The Oak and the Ash;
Sailor's Song;
Duet;
Sandgate Dandling;
Sarabande;
Ellers;
The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls;
Round O';
Charlie Is My Darling;
Tambourin;
John Anderson My Joe;
Four Variations on an Orcadian Melody;
Finale, from Petite Suite;
Waltz No. 5;
Martyrs.

Tracks 1 - 5 played on the Perth Carillon; tracks 6 - 12 played on the Kilmarnock Carillon; tracks 13 - 20 played on the Aberdeen Carillon. Raymond Aldington plays on tracks 1, 4, 6, 8, 9 & 11; Adrien Gebruers plays on tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, 10 & 12. Ronald Leith plays on tracks 13 - 20.
LP Saydisc SDL 342 Various Artists Diamond Discs 1984

Louisville (Sez Which-Sez How!) (Broadway Dance Orchestra);
Tessie (Stop Teasin' Me) (Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra);
Nobody Knows What a Red-Head Mama Can Do (Jack Stillman & His Orchestra);
Lonely and Blue (Frank Crum & His Orchestra);
Sweet Georgia Brown (Tennessee Happy Boys);
(Oh Maw! Oh Paw!) Isn't She the Sweetest Thing? (Polla's Clover Gardens Orchestra);
Jig Walk Earl Oliver's Jazz Babies);
Sweet Thing (Golden Gate Orchestra [California Ramblers]);
Rosy Cheeks (Oreste & His Queensland Orchestra);
What Do I Care What Somebody Said? (B. A. Rolfe & His Palais d'Or Orchestra);
Oh! Doris, Where Do You Live? (Don Voorhees & His Earl Carroll Vanities Orchestra);
Anything To Make You Happy (Al Lynn's Music Masters)
Mary Ann (Louis Lilienfield & His Hotle Biltmore Orchestra);
I'm Riding To Glory (The Piccadilly Players).

Hot music of the 1920s from Edison Diamond Discs, from the collection of Ron Jewson.
LP Saydisc SDL 343 Kathryn Tickell On Kielder Side 1984

Joan's Jig/Cut the File;
Sweet Hesleyside/Hesleyside Reel;
The Skate/Beeswing;
Ronell's Reel/Bob Thompson's;
Crooked Bawbee/J. B. Milne/Carrick Hornpipe;
The Peacock Followed the Hen;
Da Slockit Light;
Kielder Jock/Matt's/The Stage;
Jean's Reel;
Johnny Cope/Tipsy Sailor;
Border Spirit/A. B. Hornpipe/Billy Pigg's Hornpipe.

Tickell plays Northumbrian small pipes and fiddle. Also includes Martin Matthews, pipes & 12 string guitar, Tom Gilfellon, guitar, piano, 12 string guitar, Tristram Robson, keyboards, Frankie Beegan, bodhran.

Also issued on CD, CD-SDL 343.
LP Saydisc SDL 344 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts The Roaring 20's


If You Knew Susie (Jack Shilkret & His Orchestra, vocal, Billy Murray);
The Sheik Of Araby (Pianola roll);
I'm Tellin' the Birds, Tellin' the Bees (Jack Smith with piano);
That's My Weakness Now (Pianola roll);
Canadian Capers (Paul Biese Trio);
Rose Marie (Pianola roll);
Collette (Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra, vocal, Jack Fulton, Charles Gaylord with Austin Young);
Where the Lazy Daisies Grow (Pianola roll);
Ain't Misbehaving (Jack Hylton & His Orchestra, vocal, Sam Browne);
My Inspiration Is You (Pianola roll);
The Wedding of the Painted Doll (Pianola roll);
Don't Bring Lulu (Jan Garber & His Orchestra);
Always (Pianola roll);
Where, Oh Where Do I Live? (Fred Douglas with orchestra);
The Birth of the Blues (Pianola roll);
I Miss My Swiss (Golden Gate Orchestra, vocal, Arthur Fields);
Ain't She Sweet? (Pianola roll);
Hello, Swanee, Hello! (The Syncopated Four with piano);
Ramona (Pianola roll);
Charleston (Savoy Orpheans).

Also issued on CD, CD-SDL 344.

Original records, pianola rolls and pianolas from the Rpy Mickleburgh collection.
LP Saydisc SDL 345 Richard Butler The Perfect Triangle


Northumbrian pipes.
LP Saydisc SDL 346 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts The Three Disc Symphonion



LP Saydisc SDL 347 Lyndon Baglin Lyndon Baglin's Best of Brass 1985

Also issued on CD as CD-SDL 347.

Conducted by Nigel Seaman.
LP Saydisc SDL 348 Eileen Monger The Lilting Banshee


Also issued on CD CD-SDL 348.
LP Saydisc SDL 349 Prinknash & Stanbrook Abbeys O Give Thanks To the Lord 1985

Gaudeamus (Processional);
Mass - 'Cum Jubilo' (Mass IX);
Media Vita;
Music from Compline;
Gaudeamus (Recessional);
Keep In Your Minds;
Like As the Deer;
Let All Creation;
Into Your Hands;
To the Lamb of God;
O Give Thanks To the Lord;
The Daughter of the King;
Send Forth Your Spirit;
Alleluia;
Te Deum.

Direct Metal Mastered digital recording with record manufactured in West Germany by Teldec.

Latin and English chant from the monks of Prinknash Abbey and the nuns of Stanbrook Abbey, joined by the Bishops Cannings Schola..
LP Saydisc SDL 350 Various Artists The Wibbly Wobbly Walk 1985

The Wibbly Wobbly Walk (Jack Charman);
Oh By Jingo, Oh By Gee (Premier Quartet);
I Miss My Swiss (Tennessee Happy Boys);
Everything's At Home Except Your Wife (Walter Van Brunt);
The Spaniard That Blighted My Life (Billy Merson);
Tickle Me, Timothy (Billy Williams);
The Little Ford Rambled Right Along (Billy Murray);
Wallaperoo (Arthur Osmond [AKA Arthur Gilbert]);
Love Me (Broadway Dance Orchestra);
Come Back To Georgia (Art Hickman & His Orchestra);
All By Yourself In the Moonlight (Leslie Sarony);
The Little Wooden Whistle Wouldn't Whistle (Columbia Novelty Orchestra);
Why Did I Kiss That Girl? (Savoy Havana Band);
Felix Keeps On Walking (Savoy Havana Band);
I Parted My Hair In the Middle (George Formby);
There's a Rickety Rackety Shack (Kit-Kat Band);
Down South (International Novelty Quartet);
Parade of the Wooden Soldiers (International Novelty Orchestra).

Tracks 1 - 8 are from Phonograph Cylinders; tracks 9 - 18 are from 78rpm records.
LP Saydisc SDL 351 Dave Townshend Portrait of a Concertina 1985

Lovesick Polly/Staines Morris/Three Rusty Swords;
The Flat Pavane and Galliard;
As Time Goes By;
Down the Waggon Way/Come Ashore, Jolly Tar, Your Trousers On;
John Come Kiss Me Now;
The Cuckoo's Nest/The Maid of the Mill/The Gallant Hussar;
Csardas;
Suite in E Minor, BWV 996;
Rosline Castle/The Golden Cross/Ratclif Cross;
Peschatore Che Va Cantando/Saltarello;
The Hole In the Wall/The Bashful Swain/Windsor Terrace;
Benetev a Trevito.

Dave Townsend, English concertina, Nick Hooper, guitar.

Also available on cassette, CSDL 351.
LP Saydisc SDL 352 The Cardiff Polyphonic Choir & Orchestra A Christmas Cantata 1985

A Christmas Cantata:
(Lullay, Jesu, Lullay;
The First God Joy That Mary Had;
When Jesus Christ Was Four Years Old;
Little Jesus, Sweetly Sleep;
Rejoice O Make We Merry, Both More and Less;
I Sing Of a Maiden;
By By Lullay, Thou Tiny Little Child;
I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In/Epilogue);
Shiao Bao-Bao;
The Angel Gabriel From Heaven Came;
Ar Gyfer Heddiw'r Bore;
Silent Night, Holy Night;
Tua Bethlem Dref;
As I Ourode This Enderes Night;
Good King Wenceslas.

Conductor, Richard Elfyn Jones,organist, Michael Griffiths.
LP Saydisc SDL 353 Danielle Pauly Fleur de Jura 1985

Reve Gourmand - Waltz;
L'Epatante - Polka;
Ballade Matinale - March;
Delice Catalan - Tango;
Rapide Digitale - Polka;
Carte Postale - Waltz;
Ballade Vosgienne - Polka;
Clin D'Oeil - Java;
File Indienne - March;
Piccolo Rag - Rag;
Fleur De Jura - Polka;
Exotic Samba - Samba.

Danielle Pauly, Crusianelli accordion, with Felix-Bernard Struber and his Orchestra.

Also issued on CD, CD-SDL 353.
LP Saydisc SDL 354 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Mechanical Opera


Verdi selection (11 pieces);
Gilbert & Sullivan selection (6 pieces);
Gounod/Bizet selection (4 pieces);
Meyerbeer selection (3 pieces);
Miscellany (9 pieces);
Donizetti selection (4 pieces);
Rossini selection (4 pieces);
Bellini (5 pieces).

Also issued on CD, CD-SDL 354.

Opera favourites on musical boxes.
LP Saydisc SDL 355 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Kitten on the Keys 1986

Bye Bye Blackbird;
Thora;
Miss Annabelle Lee;
For Me and My Gal;
Stars and Stripes Forever;
Sweet Genevieve;
J'En Ai Marre;
Alexander's Ragtime Band;
I Want To Be Happy;
Doll Dance;
Moon River;
Lovable & Sweet;
Me and Jane In a Plane;
Kitten On the Keys;
Stealing;
Tippy Canoe;
Among My Souvenirs;
The More We Are Together;
Three O'Clock In the Morning.

Also issued on CD, CD-SDL 355.

Pianola rolls played on pianlas, all from the Roy Mickleburgh collection.
Cassette Saydisc CSDL 356 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Music from St. Clement Danes


Cassette-only issue.
LP Saydisc SDL 357 Georges Schmitt Joy to the World


O Sanctissima;
Silent Night;
O Christmas Tree;
Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring;
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer;
O Gentle Little Jesus;
Come On, Shepherds;
Ave Maria;
Wake Up All You Shepherds;
Joy To the World;
Jingle Bells;
On the Christmas Tree;
Come Along Children;
The First Nowell;
Dance of the Santons;
O Joyful Day;
Ring, Sleigh Bells;
Angels from the Realms of Glory;
Song of Christmas;
The Holy Child Is Born.

Georges Schmitt, pan-pipes, Bernard Struber, organ & Roland Bochot/Jean Garron, percussion.

Also issued on CD, CD-SDL 357.
LP Saydisc SDL 358 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Keep the Home Fires Burning 1986

Here We Are, Here We Are (Wheeler and Chorus);
Goodbye (Penny Piano);
Just Before the Battle (Will Oakland and Chorus);
Your King and Country Want You (Helen Clarke and Chorus);
The Trumpeter (Raymond Newell and Ian Swinley);
The Deathless Army (T. F. Kinniburgh);
Medley (N. M. B. Flying Squadron);
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (Harlan and Stanley and Chorus);
Keep the Home Fires Burning (Penny Piano);
Boys of the Old Brigade (N. M. B.);
Boys In Khaki, Boys In Blue (F. Wheeler and Male Chorus);
Colonel Bogey March/Keep the Home Fires Burning/Pack Up Your Troubles/It's a Long Way To Tipperary (Band of H. M. Coldstream Guards);
Roses of Picardy (Templeton Murray);
Passing Review Patrol (Band);
What Has Become of the Hinkey Dinky Parlay Voo (Al Bernard and Chorus).

From phonograph cylinders, Penny Piano, 78rpm records, Pianola and Edison Diamond Disc. The songs and music of the 1st World War from original recordings.

Also issued on CD, CD-SDL 358.
LP Saydisc SDL 359 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Musical Box Dances Played on Victorian Musical Boxes 1988

Waltzes, Polkas, Gavottes, Galops, etc.
LP Saydisc SDL 360 The Melstock Band Under the Greenwood Tree


I also have a listing for CD (CD-SDL 360).
LP Saydisc SDL 361 The Canterbury Clerkes with the London Serpent Trio Fill Your Glasses 1986

Fill Your Glasses;
Push About the Bottle, Boys;
When Bibo Thought Fit;
Foresters, Sound the Cheerful Horn;
When Gen'rous Wine Expands My Soul;
Viva tutti & Dulci momenti;
We Be Three Poor Mariners;
Hark, the Hollow Woods Resounding;
An Evening Rondeau;
There Behold the Mighty Bowl;
Life's a Bumper;
Music's the Language of the Blest Above;
Fear No Danger To Ensue;
Peace To the Souls of the Heroes;
Sportive Little Trifler, Tell Me;
How Merrily We Live;
Fair Aurora;
Nocturne, from music for A Midsummer Night's Dream;
Fear No More the Heat of the Sun;
O How Sweetly Delia Sings;
Breath Soft, Ye Winds;
Of All the Brave Birds;
Peaceful Slumberings;
Time Has Not Thinned;
Sleep, While the Soft Evening.

The Canterbury Clerkes are: Peter Giles, countertenor; Martin Renshaw, tenor; Antony Bussell, baritone. The London Serpent Trio are: Christopher Monk, serpent d'eglise; Clifford Bevan, ophicleide; Andrew van der Beck, military serpent.

Also issued on CD, CD-SDL 361.
LP Saydisc SDLC 362 Various Artists Pleasures and Treasures 1986

March By Mr. Handel (from SAR 10);
Mira O Norma (from SDL 303);
Jean's Reel (from SDL 343);
Lezghinka (from SDL 347);
Prelude to the Suite in E major, BWV 1006a (from SAR 23);
Collette (from SDL 344);
John Come Kiss Me Now (from SDL 351);
Music from Compline (from SDL 349);
Le Coucou (from SAR 19);
Whistling Rufus (from SDL 333);
Limerick's Lamentation/Give Me Your Hand (from SDL 348);
La Quinte Estampie Real (from SAR 22);
I've Got a Lovely Buch of Coconuts (from SDL 340);
Love At the Fair (from SDL 325);
Miss Annabelle Lee (from SDL 355);
Scherzo from the 'Spring' Sonata (from SAR 9);
The Wibbly Wobbly Walk (from SDL 350);
Jeny Lind Medley (from SDL 335);
Turkish Rondo (from SAR 6);
O Sanctissima (from SDL 357);
Reve Gourmand (from SDL 353);
Sportive Little Trifler (from SDL 361).

Sampler of material previously issued on the Saydisc and Amon Ra labels, subtitled A Kaleidoscope of Rare and Beautiful Music.
LP Saydisc SDL 363 Stanbrook Abbey Wellsprings



CD Saydisc CD-SDL 364 The York Waits Music From the Time Of Richard III 1987

CD-only issue.
LP Saydisc SDL 365 The Fairer Sax Diversions 1987

The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Handel arr. John Brown);
Quatuor pour Saxophones - Ouverture: Brillante/Doloroso/Spirituoso/Andante (Pierre Max Dubois)
Bransle Gentil (Praetorius);
Pavane for the Earl of Salisbury (Byrd);
Courante & Springdance (Praetorius);
Robert Burns Suite - My Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing/My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose/Bannocks O'Bearmeal (Paul Harvey);
Fugue in G minor from Fantasia and Fugue in G minor (J. S. Bach arr. David Coggins);
Diversions - Gusty/Blowing Blue/Sea Breeze (Paul Patterson);
Aria from Suite No. 3 in D (J. S. Bach arr. A.-L. Lane);
Moment Musicale Op. 94 No. 3 (Schubert);
Quartet for Saxes Op. 168 - Allegro ma non troppo/Adagio/Finale: Allagro molto (John Gardner);
Something Doing (Hayden/Joplin).

Direct Metal Mastered using Teldec technology, but pressed in the UK, not Germany.

Also issued on CD, CD-SDL 365.

Saxophone quartet: Anne-Louise Lane, soprano; Gabrielle Lane, alto; Karen Street, tenor; Julia Mills, baritone..
LP Saydisc SDL 366 Maddy Prior with The Carnival Band A Tapestry of Carols


The Sans Day Carol;
In Ducli Jubilo;
God Rest You Merry Gentlemen;
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear;
The Holly & the Ivy;
The Coventry Carol;
Ding Dong Merrily On High;
The Angel Gabriel;
Angels From the Realms of Glory;
Infant Holy;
A Virgin Most Pure;
Unto Us a Boy Is Born;
Rejoice and Be Merry;
Joseph Dearest;
Personal Hodie;
On Christmas Night (Sussex Carol).

Maddy Prior, vocals; Bill Badley, lute, baroque guitar, guitar, banjo, mandolin, mandocello, cittern, vocals; Andrew Davis, double bass; Giles Lewis, violin, recorders, vocals; Charles Fullbrook, small & medium tabors, basel trommel, glockenspiel, small bells, wood blocks, cowbell, triangle, antique cymbals, tambourin provencal, vocals; Andrew Watts, Flemish bagpipes, bassoon, curtal, clarinet in C, recorders, shawm, vocals.

Prior is best know for her work with Steeleye Span and, with June Tabor, in Silly Sisters. However, her finest hour was appearing, with the rest of Steeleye Span, on Top Of the Pops, not as Steeleye Span, but as The Wombles!

Also issued on CD, CD-SDL 366.
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 367 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Kurokami


I only have confirmation of a CD issue; was there a vinyl version? Traditional music from Japan: koto, shakuhachi, shamisen.
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 368 Jing Ying Evening Song


I only have confirmation of a CD issue; was there a vinyl version? Traditional Chinese instrumental music.
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 369 Monks and Nuns of Prinknash & Standbrook Abbeys Christmas Chant


I only have confirmation of a CD issue; was there a vinyl version? Traditional Latin Plainsong.
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 370 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Whistle Away Your Blues


I only have confirmation of a CD issue; was there a vinyl version? Top bands and singers of the 1920s.
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 371 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Christmas Now Is Drawing Near


I only have confirmation of a CD issue; was there a vinyl version? Early English folk carols.
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 372 Bonnie Shaljean Farewell To Lough Neaghe


I only have confirmation of a CD issue; was there a vinyl version? Traditional harp music of Great Britain and Eire.
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 373 The York Waits Music From the Time Of the Spanish Armarda


I only have confirmation of a CD issue; was there a vinyl version?
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 374 Nigel Eaton & Friends The Music of the Hurdy Gurdy


I only have confirmation of a CD issue; was there a vinyl version?
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 375 Bristol Bach Choir Welcome Yule



CD Saydisc CD-SDL 376 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Diasappearing Worlds


I only have confirmation of a CD issue; was there a vinyl version? Music of endangered cultures.
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 377 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Rags, Malkauns & Megh


I only have confirmation of a CD issue; was there a vinyl version? Sitar, sarod, tabla.
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 378 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Church Bells of England


I only have confirmation of a CD issue; was there a vinyl version? Sxteen famous peals rom London, the Cotswolds, and elsewhere.
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 379 The English Guitar Quartet Romantic Guitar Quartets


I only have confirmation of a CD issue; was there a vinyl version? Music by Mendelssohn, Chopin, Borodin, and Schubert.
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 380 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts The Golden Years of Music Hall


I only have confirmation of a CD issue; was there a vinyl version? Original artists.
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 381 Fine Arts Brass Ensemble The Lighter Side of the Fine Arts Brass Ensemble


I only have confirmation of a CD issue; was there a vinyl version?
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 382 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Pills To Purge Melancholy


I only have confirmation of a CD issue; was there a vinyl version? Lewd songs and low ballads!
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 383 Maddy Prior with the Carnival Band Sing Lustily and with Good Courage


I only have confirmation of a CD issue; was there a vinyl version? Gallery hymns of the 18th and early 19th centuries.
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 384 Joji Hirota Rain Forest Dream


I only have confirmation of a CD issue; was there a vinyl version? Percussion, and more percussion.
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 385 Richard Wistreich The Musical Life of Samual Pepys


I only have confirmation of a CD issue; was there a vinyl version?
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 386 The English Guitar Quartet Baroque Guitar Quartets


I only have confirmation of a CD issue; was there a vinyl version?
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 387 Arabesque Traditional Arabic Music


I only have confirmation of a CD issue; was there a vinyl version? Led by Hassan Erraji, who is a blind ud player extraordinaire.
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 388 Caliche Music of the Andes


I only have confirmation of a CD issue; was there a vinyl version?
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 389 David Fanshawe Spirit of African Sanctus


27 tracks before these...;
Duo Ritual Burial Dance (Kenya 1973);
War Drums (Sudan 1969);
Call To Prayer (Egypt 1969);
Acholi Warriors & Bwala Dance (Uganda 1969);
Aluar Horns (Uganda 1969).

I only have confirmation of a CD issue; was there a vinyl version? Complete versions of recordings used in the world/easy listening blockbuster, "African Sanctus" (released on Philips in 1975). Also other recordings from Fanshawe's collection - all recorded between 1969 and 1973.
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 390 Javier Alvarez Paplotl 1992

CD and cassette-only.
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 391 Ray Fisher Traditional Songs of Scotland


I only have confirmation of a CD issue; was there a vinyl version? Includes Martin Carthy and John Kirkpatrick.
Cassette Saydisc CD-SDL 392 Various Artists Theatre Organ 1991


Cassette Saydisc CD-SDL 393 Broadside Band English Country Dances 1991


CD Saydisc CD-SDL 394 Roger Winfield Windsongs


I only have confirmation of a CD issue; was there a vinyl version? Aeolian harps.
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 395 Lucie Skeaping and The Burning Bush Raisins and Almonds


I only have confirmation of a CD issue; was there a vinyl version? Jewish songs from the Sephardi (Spanish) and Ashkenazi (Yiddish) traditions.
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 396 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Vocal Traditions of Bulgaria


I only have confirmation of a CD issue; was there a vinyl version? Various recordings from the archives of Bulgarian State Radio. Following in the footsteps of Joe Boyd?
CD Saydisc CD-SDLC 397 Various Artists A Musical Banquet: A Sampler of Musical Treats from Saydisc and Amon Ra 1992

Budget priced sampler. Intriguing and highly attractive selection of music: classical and traditional, to musical boxes. I presume that this a is a CD-only issue.
Cassette Saydisc CD-SDL 398 York Waits Old Christmas Return'd 1992


CD Saydisc CD-SDL 399 The English Guitar Quartet Spanish Guitar Quartets


I only have confirmation of a CD issue; was there a vinyl version?
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 400 Various Artists English National Songs



CD Saydisc CD-SDL 401 Various Artists Rajasthani Folk Music



CD Saydisc CD-SDL 402 Jo Freya Traditional Songs of England



CD Saydisc CD-SDL 403 Various Artists Spirit of Polynesia



CD Saydisc CD-SDL 404 Various Artists North Indian Vocal Music



CD Saydisc CD-SDL 405 Various Artists Sea Songs and Shanties



CD Saydisc CD-SDL 406 Siwsann George Traditional Songs of Wales



CD Saydisc CD-SDL 407 Various Artists Songs of the Travelling People



CD Saydisc CD-SDL 408 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Victorian Musical Box



CD Saydisc CD-SDL 409 The Broadside Band Songs and Dances from Shakespeare



CD Saydisc CD-SDL 410 The Mellstock Band Songs of Thomas Hardy's Wessex



CD Saydisc CD-SDL 411 Various Artists Traditional Songs of Ireland



CD Saydisc CD-SDL 412 Robin Huw Bowen Harp Music of Wales



CD Saydisc CD-SDL 413 Various Artists Cockney Kings of Music Hall



CD Saydisc CD-SDL 414 Various Artists Spirit of Micronesia



CD Saydisc CD-SDL 415 Hassan Erraji Music for the Arabian Lute and Dulcimer



CD Saydisc CD-SDL 416 Various Artists Bagpipes of Britain and Ireland



CD Saydisc CD-SDL 417 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts A Celtic Christmas 1996

Winter ritual song and traditions from Brittany, Cornwall, Ireland, Isle of Man, Scotland and Wales.
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 418 Various Artists Spirit of Melanesia



CD Saydisc CD-SDL 419 The Broadside Band and Vivienne Ellis Old English Nursery Rhymes



CD Saydisc CD-SDL 420 Various Artists Traditional Dance Music of Ireland



CD Saydisc CD-SDL 421 Various Artists Vocal Traditions of Albania



CD Saydisc CD-SDL 422 Stanbrook Abbey / Prinknash Abbey Compline and Other Chant


Compilation of material from "Music from Prinknash Abbey" (SDL 330) and "O Give Thanks to the Lord" (SDL 349)
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 423 Stanbrook Abbey / Prinknash Abbey Chant and Psalms


Compilation of material from "O Give Thanks to the Lord" (SDL 349) and "Wellsprings" (SDL 363).
CD Saydisc CD-SDLC 424 Various Artists Free Sampler of Saydisc and Amon Ra albums 1998

British traditional songs;
Traditional dance & Thomas Hardy music;
Customs, shanties, folk hymns, travellers, favourite songs;
Children games & rhymes, bagpipes;
Harps, dulcimers & hurdy gurdies;
World Music - Africa, Pacific;
World Music - China, Japan, Arabia;
World Music - India, Eastern Music;
World Music - Various;
Musical boxes;
Nostalgia + mechanical music;
Nostalgia + mechanical music (cont);
The Music of Christmas Past;
The Music of Christmas Past (cont);
Latin & English Chant, Bells;
Guitar & saxophone quartets;
Education Packs for schools;
Keyboards, trumpets, oboes;
Harps, mandolins, guitars, flutes;
Mediaeval music;
Renaissance, Elizabethan & Tudor music;
Elizabethan & Tudor music (cont);
Flemish and Italian Renaissance music;
Baroque music on original instruments;
Classical period music on original instruments;
Romantic period music on original instruments;
Singing bowls, windharps, percussion, electroacoustic.

The CD was not available for sale but was included free with Saydisc's 1998 catalogue. 100,000 copies and catalogues were sent out.

78 minutes on 27 tracks. Each track comprises several snippets from different recordings, covering most of the currently available catalogue.

CD is manufactured in Austria.
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 425 Various Artists English Customs and Traditions



CD Saydisc CD-SDL 426 Various Artists Traditional Songs and Dances of Sardinia



CD Saydisc CD-SDL 427 Various Artists Traditional Music of Tibet



CD Saydisc CD-SDL 428 Roger Wingfield Voices of the Wind



CD Saydisc CD-SDL 429 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Carillons of Great Britain


Compilation of material from "Sound of the Carillon" (SDL 291) and "Carillons of Scotland" (SDL 341).
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 430 Various Artists Celtic Harp 1999

Compilation of material from Eileen Monger's "The Lilting Banshee" (SDL 348) and Bonny Shaljean's "Farewell to Lough Neaghe" (CD-SDL 372) (and possibly from "Robin Huw Bowen's "Harp Music of Wales" [CD-SDL 412] - confirmation required).
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 431 Various Artists Folk Music of South Eastern Albania 1999

Subtitled 'Cry You Mountains, Cry You Fields'.
CD Saydisc CD-SDL 432 Knut Buen Hardanger Fiddle Music of Norway 1999