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Biography - Jazz Collector 
UK
When there began to be a demand for Blues and early Jazz music in the UK, it was clear that there would never be enough American records to fulfill the demand. It was impossible (and would have been VERY expensive) to import records into the UK from the USA to satisfy the thirst for this type of music. So an entrepreneur called Colin Pomroy decided to reproduce, from originals, the records issued back in the USA for a British audience. They were mostly very small pressings - to begin with up to a hundred, and if very popular there were possibly reissues. Eventually, in the late 1950s the label changed its name to Collector and issued all manner of interesting and oddball records on vinyl from Football Crazy by Robin Hall & Jimmie MacGregor to Songs from the Aldermaston Anti-Nuclear Marches, and from Yellow Bird by The Merrymakers Leeward Islands Steel Band to speeches by Herbert Beerbohm Tree (a Shakespearian actor who died in 1917).
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UKWhen there began to be a demand for Blues and early Jazz music in the UK, it was clear that there would never be enough American records to fulfill the demand. It was impossible (and would have been VERY expensive) to import records into the UK from the USA to satisfy the thirst for this type of music. So an entrepreneur called Colin Pomroy decided to reproduce, from originals, the records issued back in the USA for a British audience. They were mostly very small pressings - to begin with up to a hundred, and if very popular there were possibly reissues. Eventually, in the late 1950s the label changed its name to Collector and issued all manner of interesting and oddball records on vinyl from Football Crazy by Robin Hall & Jimmie MacGregor to Songs from the Aldermaston Anti-Nuclear Marches, and from Yellow Bird by The Merrymakers Leeward Islands Steel Band to speeches by Herbert Beerbohm Tree (a Shakespearian actor who died in 1917).
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