CHECKMATE
RECORDS
Independent
label: Checkmate Records was a record
shop and Country music label, run by Graham and Sue Rowe out of premises in
Northbrook St, Newbury, Berkshire. Checkmate began issuing records in late
1976. It concentrated on LPs, the catalogue numbers of which reached at
least CMLF-1032 by April 1978, but it issued a solitary single, Jimmy
Payne's 'Feeling The Weight Of My Chains' b/w 'Can I Pick You Up', which was
numbered CMSS-806. Distributed By Checkmate Records. Thanks
to Robert Lyons For The Info.
77
Jimmy Payne
Feeling The Weight Of My Chains
b/w Can I Pick You Up
CHECKMATE
CMSS
806