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Format & label Catalogue number Artist Title Release date Deletion date Label design Comments
LP Saydisc SD ? - no catalogue number Various Artists Bristol Folks

1 (red, small) Fiddle Medley (Bev & Richard Dewar);
She Moves Through the Fair (Anne Mavius);
Man of Constant Sorrow (Patrick Small);
Tramps and Hawkers (The Crofters);
Dona, Dona, Dona (Graham Kilsby);
He Was My Brother (Paul Evans);
Fare Thee Well (Bev & Richard Dewar);
Dirty Streets (Anne Mavius);
Geordie (The Crofters);
Flora (Patrick Small);
Farewell (Graham Kilsby).

A stupidly rare record that doesn't give anything away with regard to catalogue number. Matrix number is an unhelpful 16185/6. Limited edition press - 99 copies only?

All the artists on the LP were singers at the Ballads and Blues and/or the Poetry and Folk Clubs of Bristol.

Pat Small made an LP for Golden Guinea a couple of years later as one third of The West Country Three, whose LP was a tribute to Peter, Paul & Mary. Pat Small later joined a late line-up of The Pigsty Hill Light Orchestra. He was billed to play the secons Troubadour Reunion concert in 2004 but did not play on the night.
7" EP Saydisc SD 1 (?) Fred Wedlock Volume One

1 (red, small) Silbury Hill;
Si Mi Quieres Escribir;
Franklin;
Hey Nelly Nelly.

In generic Saydisc 7" sleeve with artist and song credits stuck onto credit panel. Rear of sleeve is blank. Includes Roneo insert, which concludes with the following credit, 'SAYDISC thank "Bristol Ballads and Blues Club" and "Bristol Poetry and Folk Club" for their co-operation in making this recording impossible'!

The catalogue number is taken from the insert, where the '1' looks suspiciously like a capital i - the matrix number is an unhelpful 16123.

This was very much a limited edition pressing - there may only have been 99 copies pressed as there is no Mecolico stamp on the labels or sleeve.
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 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 ?

2 (blue) Virtute et Industrial;
+ five more - title currently unknown

Six track EP with solid centre. Presumably, this was issued in a generic sleeve or with a Roneo insert as otherwise there are no track or artist credits.

Includes Fred on guitar with violin and vocal accompaniment - presumably from Bev & Richard Dewar, as they are credited on Virtute et Industrial's reappearance on the Sounds of Bristol 7" LP (33SD 245)..
7" EP Saydisc 33SD 125 Anderson, Jones, Jackson Anderson, Jones, Jackson 1966

A 5 track EP - tracks unknown.

Ian A. Anderson, Al Jones and Elliot Jackson.
7" EP Saydisc SD 127 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts Bells of Bristol Vol. 1

4 (purple/silver) Change ringing from Bristol: St. Mary Redcliffe (12 bells);
The Lord Mayor's Chapel (6 bells);
Bristol Cathedral (8 bells);
St. Stephen's, City (10 bells).

7" 45rpm EP in picture sleeve with 8 page Roneo insert.
7" EP Saydisc SD 129 The Crofters Ballad of the Severn Bridge

3 (yellow) Ballad of the Severn Bridge;
As I Walked Out One Morn;
The Butter Churning Race;
Buttercup Meadows.

Picture sleeve. Record pressed with solid centre. Includes a Roneo insert.

All tracks are composed and performed by the Crofters. Both the sleeve notes and insert notes advertise that The Crofters were soon to release an LP - was this ever recorded and release?.
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 A. Anderson and Elliot Jackson Almost the Country Blues 1968

EP.
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 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 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 Saydisc SDL 161 Unknown Test Pressing


Existence confirmed of a white label test pressing in plain white sleeve, which 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 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 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 Saydisc SDL 193 Specialist: Music, Arts & Crafts The Golden Age Of Mechanical Music - Vol. 8- The Reproducing Piano



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 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 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 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 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 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.
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 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 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 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.
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 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 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

The Bournville 48 bell Carillon, played by Trevor Workman:

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.

The Loughbourgh 47 bell Carillon, played by Peter Stratford:

Rendezvous (Aletter);
Cockles and Muscles;
Air (Purcell);
Volte (Couperin);
La Ferlaude (from J. de Gruytters Carillon Book);
Crimond;
The Bellfounder (G. Nees);
Extract from Mignon (Thomas).

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 Chipp