DINGLES
RECORDS
Independent label: Dingles was a Folk Music label from
Edgware. It was owned by Roger and Helen Holt, and was named after their
folk club. It issued its first record in 1976, a various artists album
entitled 'Dingle's Regatta' (DIN-301), and concentrated on LPs for the first
three years of its existence. The success of the undeniably catchy
'Daytrip to Bangor' by Fiddlers Dram (SID-211; 11/79) seems to have prompted the
Holts to turn their attention to singles as well, and and over the course
of the next eleven years at least twenty-three more were issued, in a numerical
series starting at SID-221. Most disappeared without leaving much trace,
but one of them hit the Charts: Tony Capstick's 'The Sheffield Grinder', which
was successful largely on the strength of its other side, the
humorous 'Capstick Comes Home' (SID-227; 3/81). Numbers from SID-201
to 210 and from 212 to 220 appear not to have been used. The
injection-moulded label was pressed in France, it was probably a response to the
unexpected demand generated when the Fiddler's Dram record was a
hit. Distribution in the early '80s was by Spartan. Dingles records
former address: 322 Whitchurch Lane Edgware, Middlesex, HA8 6QX. TIG 001
was an SRT custom pressing SRT cat number was SRT4KS302. Only 1000 copies were
pressed, but only 400 were ever sold (the rest copies were destroyed in
2004). Fiddler's Dram were a British folk band of the late 1970s. They are
mainly known for their hit single, "Day Trip to Bangor (Didn't We Have a Lovely
Time)" (1979). Dave Arbus, violinist with East of Eden, was a founder member but
left long before the band achieved success.The full-time members of the band
were drawn from a group of musicians at the University of Kent at Canterbury and
members of Duke's Folk Club in Whitstable. Cathy Lesurf - vocals, bodhran, Alan
Prosser - guitar, fiddle, bowed psaltery, bones, Chris Taylor - bouzouki,
harmonica, appalachian dulcimer, mandola, tenor banjo, Ian Telfer - fiddle,
bowed psaltery, viola, English Concertina. Thanks to Robert Lyons For The
Info.
| 79 |
Fiddler'S
Dram |
Day Trip To
Bangor |
DINGLES |
SID |
211 |
| 80 |
Fiddler'S
Dram |
Dancing In |
DINGLES |
SID |
221 |
| 80 |
Gentleman Gerald |
The Wimbledon Song |
DINGLES |
SID |
222 |
| 81 |
Gentleman Gerald |
Anyone For Tennis |
DINGLES |
SID |
222 |
| 80 |
Ar Log |
Carmarthan Oak |
DINGLES |
SID |
224 |
| 81 |
Fiddler'S Dram |
Black Hole |
DINGLES |
SID |
225 |
| 80 |
Kirkpatrick John |
Jogging Along With Me Raindeer |
DINGLES |
SID |
226 |
| 81 |
Capstick Tony |
Capstick Comes Home |
DINGLES |
SID |
227 |
| 81 |
Hollow Ken |
Bring Her Back Home To Me |
DINGLES |
SID |
228 |
| 81 |
Stephens Sam & Anne |
Don'T Dilly Dally |
DINGLES |
SID |
229 |
| 81 |
Grundy Eddie |
Lambs To The Slaughter |
DINGLES |
SID |
230 |
| 81 |
Fiddler'S Dram |
Little Ray Of Sunshine |
DINGLES |
SID |
231 |
| 81 |
Gary & Vera Aspey |
Don'T Get Married Girls |
DINGLES |
SID |
232 |
| 82 |
Bayoy Brothers |
You'Ve Got Away With It |
DINGLES |
SID |
233 |
| 82 |
Aspeys |
Come On Home |
DINGLES |
SID |
234 |
| 83 |
Andrews Harvey |
Me Mom |
DINGLES |
SID |
235 |
| 83 |
St Clair Isla |
Still No Sign |
DINGLES |
SID |
236 |
| 84 |
Ivey Lee & Five Cents |
Older Woman |
DINGLES |
SID |
237 |
| 86 |
Wurzels |
All Fall Down |
DINGLES |
SID |
238 |
| 87 |
Qed |
Yuppie Song |
DINGLES |
SID |
239 |
| 88 |
Pearson Chris |
Let Me Be Your Sunny Day |
DINGLES |
SID |
240 |
| 87 |
Qed |
Santa'S Going To Miss Christmas |
DINGLES |
SID |
241 |
| 89 |
Jerome Mike |
I Wanna Be A Toy Boy |
DINGLES |
SID |
242 |
| 89 |
Qed |
Sunny Days |
DINGLES |
SID |
243 |
| 90 |
Qed |
Captain Pugwash |
DINGLES |
SID |
244 |
| 90 |
Jerome Mike |
I'Ve Gone And Lost |
DINGLES |
SID |
245 |
| 81 |
Tony Capstick |
Capstick Comes
Home |
DINGLES |
SID |
27 |
| 84 |
Black Fantasy |
Evil
Places |
DINGLES |
TIG |
001 |
