OVATION
RECORDS

Independent label: Ovation hailed from Nottingham.  To judge by the half dozen or so of its records, it appears to have been a custom recording organisation rather than the kind of company which signs artists and then issues records by them.  Albums were numbered in the MB-2000s; the catalogue number of one of the only two 7" Ovation records I've seen, Bob Rowe's 'Command Hits Vol. 1' (MBS-2026), looks as though it ought to belong in that series, but there was an LP numbered 2026 as well.  The other 7", an EP by Terry Mundy, was numbered K-7777, which doesn't fit into any series that I've come across.  The earliest Ovation product, Billy Street's 'On The Sunny Side' LP (MB-2025), dates from 1978, though the catalogue number suggests that there should be others; Ovation continued to make records until at least 1981.  As well as making his own EP Bob Rowe produced the majority of the LPs, which suggests that he may well have been behind the company.  He worked as a broadcaster on Radio Nottingham, and moved on to the field of photography, having a book published by Ovation Productions in 1999; the name of that publisher lends weight to the theory that Ovation was his.  pressed by Sound Manufacturing, of Hayes, Middlesex.  There was another Ovation label, which operated rather briefly from 1980 and was distributed by Pye; that company was of American derivation, and had nothing to do with the Nottingham one.  See also Cherub Music. Thanks to Robert Lyons For The Info.

 

78	Billy Street	On The Sunny Side (Album)	OVATION	MBS	2025
79	Bob Rowe	Command Hits Vol 1	OVATION	MBS	2026
78	Terry Mundy	Can't Stop Loving You (Album)	OVATION	MBS	2027
78	Tommy Owen Trio With Jyll Ball	Misty (Album)	OVATION	MBS	2030
79	Linda And Martin Barry	To Know You Is To Love You (Album)	OVATION	MBS	2032
79	The Brian Newton Orchestra	Highlights From The Tribute To Stan Kenton Concert (Album)	OVATION	MBS	2033

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Terry Mundy

I Can't Stop Loving You

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7777