HUMBER
RECORDS

Independent label: Humber Records appears to have served as a custom-recording studio and an independent production company.  It was founded by Les Johnson in the early 1970s, and it was - indeed it still is - based in Grimsby. During that decade its singles and albums seem to have shared the same 000 numbering, with singles being prefixed 'HRSP' and LPs 'HRLPS'.  EPs seem to have started off being numbered separately in the HREP-000s, though a 1981 EP by Rock 'n' Roll band The Riot Rockers was numbered HREP-051: Humber's products have been varied.  As well as the Riot Rockers record there were EPs by Punk band The What ('What Is The Cure', HREP-004; 12/1979), and by Early Music group the Toll Bar Consort (HREP-003; 1979).  The Pisces single, 'Up The Mariners', is a song in praise of Grimsby Town Football Club rather than a tale of sexual deviation at sea, and was pressed by Lyntone.  The company's two Various Artist 'Humber Beat' albums (HRLPS-024 and 028) are modestly collectable.  Custom-made records were presumably pressed in small quantities, but some of the independent productions from the 1980s served better: 'Makin' It' by Good News (HUM-52; 1984) and Stacey Rae's 'He Used To Bring Me Roses' (12/1987) - the theme from Prisoner Cell Block H - both seem to have shifted a good number of copies.  There were at least two different label designs. Distributed Dead Good and Small Wonder Records. Thanks to Robert Lyons For The Info.

79	Not Traced		HUMBER	45-HREP	001
79	Hickory Stick	11 Mins 07 Secs Of	HUMBER	45-HREP	002
79	Waltham Toll Bar Consort	Early Music	HUMBER	45-HREP	003
79	What	East Coast Kids EP	HUMBER	45-HREP	004

 

78	Tommy Degnan	Shaymen Of Halifax	HUMBER	HRSP	049
78	Pisces	Up The Mariners	HUMBER	HRSP	050
81	Riot Rockers	Brand New Cadillac	HUMBER	HREP	051
84	Good News	Makin' It	HUMBER	HUM	52
86	Good News	See The Mariners	HUMBER	HUM	53

 

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Rea Stacey

Prisoner Cell Block-H

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