RECORDS
Independent label: Fanfare Records was a studio and custom-recording concern, based in Swiss Cottage, London. Fanfare appears to have made acetates, and to have arranged for records to be made from masters that were recorded in other studios. As might be expected, the fare was varied: it was responsible for records by acts such as Folk group Merruwyn, Trad Jazzers the New City Jazzmen, and the choir of All Saints church in Stock Harbard. There's no date on the Mervyn Francis EP, 'Love With Mervyn Francis' (FR-2061), but the style of the matrix number on the run-off was helpful because it revealed that pressing was by EMI. Most albums, EPs - and singles shared the same FR-2000 catalogue number series, though there looks to have been a separate FR-6400 series. There was another Fanfare label in the '70s - a division of Music For Pleasure, if I remember rightly. It only issued albums. There was also a Pop one in the '80s, which had hits with the likes of Sinitta. Some records seem to have used Fanfare numbers as matrix numbers and to have come out on other labels; see 'Scratch' for an example. At least one record with a Fanfare number came out on a different label; see 'Wax (1974)'. Distributed By Fanfare Records. Thanks to Robert Lyons For The Info.
| 74 | The Holy Trinity School Choral Society, Mozart | Mozart Requiem (Album) | FANFARE | FR | 2020 |
| 74 | Tony Diamond Trio | Hang Around | FANFARE | FR | 2025 |
| 74 | Maxwell Plumm | Maxwell Plumm (Album) | FANFARE | FR | 2042 |
| 74 | Sharpe And Betchley | Peaceful Easy Feeling | FANFARE | FR | 2046 |
| 74 | Mervyn Francis | Love With Mervyn Francis | FANFARE | FR | 2061 |
| 74 | Merruwyn | Live At The Grosvenor (Album) | FANFARE | FR | 2066 |
| 74 | Asylum | (It's My) Destiny | WAX | FR | 2073 |
| 74 | New City Jazzmen | New Orleans to Crawley | FANFARE | FR | 2093 |
| 75 | Arthur Lycett, Chris Timewell, Peter Blakeman | Extracts From Stone Gang Show 1975 | FANFARE | FR | 2112 |
| 75 | Choir Of All Saints Stock Harbard | Psalm 23 | FANFARE | FR | 2114 |
| 75 | Terry | 4 Songs For Singin' | FANFARE | FR | 2140 |
| 76 | Bob Short | A Year in the Life (Album) | FANFARE | FR | 2153 |
| 76 | Quodling's Delight | Among The Leaves So Green (Album) | FANFARE | FR | 2179 |
| 76 | Eleri Janet Diane | The Answer (Album) | FANFARE | FR | 2196 |
| 76 | Margaret Hill | Margaret Hill Sings a Pocket Full of Folk Songs (Album) | FANFARE | FR | 2198 |
| 76 | 5th Avenue | Searching for Heaven | FANFARE | FR | 2203 |
| 77 | Starship [Guildford] | Vampire For Your Love | SCRATCH | FR | 2219 |
| 78 | Not Known | Drink Ricard Your Way | FANFARE | FR | 2244 |
| 78 | The Staff and Pupils of Castle Rock High Scho | The Pardoner's Tale (Album) | FANFARE | FR | 2246 |
| 79 | The Moulton Morris Men | Where the Pavement Ends (Album) | FANFARE | FR | 2311 |
| 79 | The Children Of Barnsbury School | Paul Bradbury & Fanfare Present Colin Campbell's Child Magic | FANFARE | FR | 2320 |
| 80 | Barbara Law / Peter Robinson | New Town | FANFARE | FR | 2359 |
| 80 | Farnborough Hill Chapel Choir | Farnborough Hill Chapel Choir (Album) | FANFARE | FR | 2371 |
