GREENWICH GRAMOPHONE COMPANY
RECORDS
Independent label: Greenwich Gramophone
Company Records was The 'Progressive' subsidiary of Les Reed's
'Chapter One' label. Les Reed and Tony Reeves were planning to launch a
'prog orientated' label called RAM in 1971; that didn't happen, but eventually
Greenwich came along. Under Reeves - bassist with John Mayall, Colosseum,
Greenslade, etc - as creative director Greenwich issued four albums and three
singles in 1971-72. He left the company in May 1972, however, and in
August 1972 Reed phased the label out. The acts which were still with the
company were transferred to Chapter One, Bond & Brown's album duly appearing
on that label. Three of the Greenwich albums (by Open Road, Day of
Phoenix, and Samurai) were deleted in June '74; the fourth (by the Woods Band)
was still listed in the Decca catalogue in 1977 - but not in 1978. The
singles appeared in a GSS-100 series; GSS-101 seems not to have been
issued. John Walker had been signed to the label and that Bill Wyman was
going to produce his records, but nothing seems to have come of it.
Records on the Greenwich Gramophone Company label are rarely met with nowadays;
the albums are collectable. Greenwich Gramophone Company Former Address: 35 Soho
Square London, W1. Distributed By Greenwich Gramophone Company Records. Thanks
to Robert Lyons For The Info.
72
Not Issued
GREENWICH GRAMOPHONE
COMPANY
GSS
101
72
Open Road
Swamp Fever
GREENWICH GRAMOPHONE COMPANY
GSS
102
72
Ian Stuart Lane
Don'T Rock Me Baby
GREENWICH GRAMOPHONE COMPANY
GSS
103
72
Bond & Brown
Lost Tube
GREENWICH GRAMOPHONE COMPANY
GSS
104