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The Record Press 26th Jan 2021		Vinyl Album Al Jones [Folk] - Jonesville (1973)	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 (1968)	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 4th Dec 2020		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Blues Like Showers Of Rain (1968)	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 (1966)	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 (1968)	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 (1977)	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 (1968)	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 4th Feb 2020		Vinyl Album Mike Absalom - Save The Last Gherkin For Me! (1969)	'Matchbox Studios London' = Mike Absalom's bedsit!
The Record Press 4th Feb 2020		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Blues Piano (1968)	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 (1965)	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 (1967)	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 (1967)	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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