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Member	Item		Review/Comment
The Record Press 28th Jul 2021		Vinyl Album Genesis - Foxtrot	The September 1983 date comes from a later 1980s Music Master publication (the '89 Labels List, I think) and is incorrect. The date related to Virgin's blanket redistribution of all Charisma titles still on catalogue when they took over from Phonogram in the August, and at the redistribution date actually related to CAS 1058. Somehow MM managed to transpose that date to the March 1985 CHC release later on (probably down to removing catalogue number information in the 13th edition of the main catalogue in 1988).
The Record Press 21st Jul 2021		12" Single Steve Hackett - Cell 151	Initial advertising materials did not mention the free 12", which I think was added as an extra incentive after the single started to look as though it might chart. I remember being annoyed that I had to go and buy a second copy to get the 12"...and then I was even more annoyed when I discovered that I already had the 12" because it was nothing more than CB 341-12 being given a new lease of life.
The Record Press 20th Jul 2021		Cassette Album Monty Python - Live At Drury Lane	The New Cassettes & Cartridges lists this Phonogram version in its July 1976 edition.
The Record Press 15th Apr 2021		Vinyl Album Cuckoo - Iona	Crackingly good LP, which I hunted out after seeing James Lascelles and Kuma Harada with the Breakfast Band in 1981...but I have to admit that this is the first point at which I've discovered that the band is called Cuckoo and not Iona! Some great Globs and Riff Raff connections on this - and Kuma Harada went on to play on the highly underrated White Flames LP by Snowy White - have a hit single and no-one takes your LP seriously! In the Snowy White/Breakfast Band camp, another cracking LP is Richard Bailey's 'Fire Dance' (Shed Records ‎– MML-89007-7) from 1989, which includes the tambourine player from this album on congas!
The Record Press 5th Apr 2021		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Big Road Blues	The full story of how the LP came to be unissued is included in my upcoming book, "Blues from the Avon Delta: the Matchbox Blues Story", which is to be published by The Record Press, August 2021, distributed by Nimbus/Wyastone. The book covers all blues releases on (in order of appearance) Saydisc, Sunflower, Kokomo, Highway 51, Matchbox, Village Thing, Ahura Mazda, Flyright-Matchbox and Matchbox Bluesmaster - over 100 blues records in all between 1967 and 1987.
The Record Press 5th Apr 2021		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Big Road Blues	Update to the Notes section - there are now THREE known white label copies. Tony Russell, author of the influential November Books' Blues Paperbacks series book, 'Blacks, Whites and Blues', also has a copy (the LP was intended to support and illustrate an upcoming book from the same publisher).
The Record Press 26th Jan 2021		Vinyl Album Al Jones [Folk] - Jonesville	Aha, Graham Smith from Canton Trig (later in the Dragons with Huw Gower and the Fans on Fried Egg). Pete Moody ran the semi-legendary Sunflower label. He has LOTS of unreleased recordings of Al Jones (and Lackey and Sweeney), many of which were planned for a Sunflower LP, to have been titled 'Shape Like a Frog', proposed catalogue number ET-101, to have been issued via Saydisc. Proposed track listing below: Side 1 1. 32-20 2. To London With You 3. Hard Times Killing Floor 4. New Blue Suede Shoes 5. Dissatisfied Number 2 6. Butchers Knife 7. Searching The Desert For The Blues Side 2 1. The Wabash Cannonball 2. Dustbin Lid 3. New Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On 4. I’d Rather Be The Devil 5. You’re Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond No. 3 6. Most Chickens Are Mild And Friendly Or Would Like To Be 7. The Wild Rover Intended release date: late 1971.
The Record Press 24th Jan 2021		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Blues Piano	Matrix and catalogue number anomalies. The above set of images is now known to represent a second pressing. The first pressing was on generic labels with no overprinting, the same base design as the red labels and light blue labels in use earlier, only with "Matchbox" branding in place of Saydisc. The sleeve on that run states "SDM" as the prefix.
The Record Press 27th Dec 2020		78 RPM "Sleepy" John Estes - Married Woman Blues / Drop Down Mama	1944 release may be doubtful because it was reviewed in the October 1945 edition of The Gramophone. Interesting to note is that the original 3000 copies stated that the record was sponsored by The Jazz Appreciation Society, which was a mistake - it was the British Hot Record Society. Brunswick said they would correct it on the next pressing run. I wonder if it ever got that far!
The Record Press 4th Dec 2020		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Blues Like Showers Of Rain	The stamped matrix and label prefix are incorrect on the original pressing, and should be "SDM" as per sleeve. This happened with the first pressings of the first three Matchbox LPs, after which Orlake seems to have got used (mostly but not always) to adding an "M" in place of the Saydisc sequence "L".
The Record Press 14th Oct 2020		Vinyl Album Neville Dickie, Quentin Williams, Pete Davis - Ragtime Piano	I pass Quentin Williams' house on the way to my local pub (indeed, have drunk with his son in there)! Pete Davis is better known as Henry Davis, ex-Adge Cutler and the Wurzels, and now an active local CAMRA member. The nickname 'Henry' came from the Goons' Henry Crun character and stuck.
The Record Press 14th Oct 2020		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Blues Like Showers Of Rain	Ah, the girl on the sleeve was called Lynn! The record was recorded in two sessions on the first Sunday of March and April. Sessions were in the afternoon before the artists played at Ian Anderson's Folk Blues Bristol and West club...all currently being documented in my next discography, "Blues from the Avon Delta".
The Record Press 6th Oct 2020		Vinyl Album The Barry Male Voice Choir - Gloria	Little-known fact, This was the first record pressed by Nimbus. Saydisc was quite heavily involved in getting Nimbus up and running.
The Record Press 6th Oct 2020		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Blues Like Showers Of Rain	Other early Saydisc sleeves (e.g. Cylinder Jazz) printed in Westbury on Trym are also yellowed, though not to this extent. As for including Matchbox LPs in the Saydisc listing, what do we do about the two rogue Roots label LPs that were issued, one on the Matchbox label (RL 337) and one on Saydisc label (SL 506)? (Then there's the added complexity of Saydisc assigning its own catalogue numbers in-house to contract pressings by Sunflower, Kokomo, Highway 51, Roots and JASS.)
The Record Press 16th Jul 2020		Classical Item Hallé Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli - Bizet "L'Arlésienne", Tchaikovsky "The Swan Lake" Ballet Suite	This was one of the first batch of LP releases by the EMI group, reviewed in the October 1952 edition of Gramophone.
The Record Press 4th Feb 2020		Vinyl Album Mike Absalom - Save The Last Gherkin For Me!	'Matchbox Studios London' = Mike Absalom's bedsit!
The Record Press 4th Feb 2020		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Blues Piano	The label (and matrix) gets it wrong - the catalogue number is really SDR 146. On Matchbox releases, 'R' meant 'reissue of previously released music' and 'M' stood for 'modern' - i.e. first release.
The Record Press 4th Feb 2020		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Bristol Folks	This year's Saydisc PPL audit (to do with the copyright changeover from 50 to 70 years) has brought to light that this was assigned the catalogue number SDL 100 on original notification...but the two Crofters tracks from the LP are also listed as being SDL 110. What with there being nothing known from 101 to 109 and the next known release being an LP on SDL 112 (very soon after this one), I'm thinking that this LP started life neatly as SDL 100 and somehow 'morphed' into SDL 110 in Saydisc's in-house admin. (I also have a theory, in that case, about what then slots in to the otherwise unknown 111 number.)
The Record Press 1st Aug 2019		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Cylinder Jazz	Hang on, the plot thickens. I've just noticed the 'Skyline Studios' credit on the rear of the later version of the sleeve, which dates that copy as being from some point in 1975 or slightly later. 1975 was when Plastic Dog Graphics changed their name to Skyline Studios. I'm near certain that the copy I viewed (but didn't buy) on eBay had a 'Plastic Dog Graphics' credit. So that's two versions of the later sleeve design that I'm still looking for, then! (The Skyline Studios partnership was dissolved in 1977, but was probably retained on any later pressing runs, if there were any.) (As for label colours, curiously, Saydisc almost always repressed LPs on the same colour labels as used on the original release, so the label colour only tells you when the record was first issued [or given a makeover, as in this case] and, unlike other labels, doesn't help in working out date of actual pressing. Have I ever mentioned before that Saydisc can be a bugger to document?)
The Record Press 1st Aug 2019		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Cylinder Jazz	Hi Fokeman, the later sleeve design is from either late 1970 or early 1971. This is a 'best guess' based on the first known orange label design appearing on 'I'll Dance Till De Sun Breaks Through' (SDL 210), which was issued (probably) 1970 (with an outside chance of early 1971). This looks very much as though Plastic Dog Graphics (Rodney Matthews, world-renowned fantasy artist, and Terry Brace) took the opportunity to spruce up the sleeve designs of those records still on catalogue when they took over graphic design duties in - guess what - either late 1970 or early 1971. None of those still surviving - Terry died back in 2009 - can remember quite when! There's an even earlier sleeve design as well, which is the generic Saydisc design as used on the earlier Bristol Folks LP, which represents a copy from the first 99 copy pressing run. Your copy, what with still including the Mecolico sticker, probably places it in the first post-99 pressing run batch.

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