CITY MUSIC
RECORDS
Independent label: A custom recording label, from
Scratby, Great Yarmouth. City Music was owned and run by Tony
Palmer. As far as the '70s are concerned, it seems to have issued records
from c.1969 to c.1973; in or around 1973 it dropped the 'Music' and become just
plain 'City'. It went on to put out several more records in the mid to
late '80s. The blue label looks to have been the commonest design, and it
was maintained into the 'City' era. Initially numbering appears to have
been generally in the EPC / CMSTP / CMSP-70Y0s, with the 'Y' showing how many
records had been made so far. It may be that the '70' referred to the year
of release, as the catalogue numbers of subsequent issues did, though the very
first record made - EPC-7010 - has a copyight date of 1969 on the label.
From 1971 numbers took the form 'XX0Y', with XX being the year and Y the number
of records issued in that year; thus CMSP-7202 was the second record made in
1972. There were two prefixes for EPs, CMEP and CMEPC; the 'C' at the end
of the latter may indicate 'Country', as the records with that prefix are both
in that genre. The gaps in the discography below hint that there should be
several other City Music records out there, but not many of them seem to have
strayed far from Great Yarmouth. The Singing Postman had previously
enjoyed a fair amount of popularity as a recording artist for Parlophone.
He went on to record for Gemini, as did Jim West & The Texans, which
suggests that there may have been lines of communication between that company
and City Music. Thanks to Robert Lyons For The
Info.
| 70 |
Ray Stratton |
Fox And The
Goose |
CITY
MUSIC |
EPC |
7010 |
| 70 |
The Singing Postman |
Thass Only Me |
CITY MUSIC |
CMSTP |
7050 |
| 70 |
Ken Saul |
Warm Summer Rain |
CITY MUSIC |
CMSTP |
7070 |
| 70 |
The Singing Postman |
Foxhunt |
CITY MUSIC |
CMSP |
7090 |
| 71 |
Not Traced |
|
CITY
MUSIC |
CMSP |
7101 |
| 71 |
Ray Stratton |
My Rose Of Tennesse |
CITY MUSIC |
CMSP |
7102 |
| 71 |
Jim West & Texans |
I Started Loving You Again |
CITY MUSIC |
CMSP |
7103 |
| 72 |
Falcon Mike |
Who Am I |
CITY
MUSIC |
CMSP |
7201 |
| 72 |
Gerry Welsh |
Both Sides Now |
CITY MUSIC |
CMSP |
7202 |
| 73 |
Tony Gray |
Route 66 |
CITY |
CMEPC |
7301 |
| 73 |
New Westernaires |
On The Road |
CITY |
CMEPC |
7302 |
