MOBY PRODUCTIONS
RECORDS
Moby Productions was set
up around 1970 by Maurice Gibb and Billy Lawrie. It licensed its material
to other companies, but at least one record appeared on its own label: an EP by
a band called Soliloquy. Tracks on the EP were 'Alive To Die', 'Father
Moonshine', 'Asian Way' and 'Lady Tarantula'; it came out in 1974 and was
pressed by Lyntone as LYN-2867 / 2868. Only 99 copies were made, which suggests
that it may well have been intended as a promotional tool (either by Moby
themselves or by the publisher, Shetland Music Co.) rather than as a proper
release - the prominence given to Shetland Music's name and (presumably) their
address and telephone number on the labels is evidence for that theory. All four
tracks were written by Kel Monoghan and copyrighted on the 3rd of September
1974. The EP's labels were white with black printing; they had the Moby
Productions logo at the top, the band's name across the middle in a large
carnival-type font, the titles underneath that, and the publisher's name (on the
'A' side) or address (on the 'B' side) in large print at the
bottom. Thanks to Robert Lyons For The
Info.
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Soliloquy
Alive To Die
MOBY
PRODUCTIONS
LYN 2867 /
2868