SECW (Emi Custom Pressing)
RECORDS
EMI Custom Pressing Records is a description
rather than a label name, as the words do not appear on any of the EMI custom
pressings. The labels on the records varied widely. Promotional pressings
for different companies, such as Yardleys and BOAC, had their own distinctive
labels, seem to have been related to the product that the company was
trying to promote; Other records, intended presumably for resale rather
than for use as promotional tools, had a plain-looking black label. Two
separate sets of catalogue numbers used, SECW-1000 numerical series, pressed by
EMI and blessed with the same lack of identification, other than the name of the
business which they were promoting (if any). There was also a separate
ECW-1000 series. These SECW and ECW numbers appear to have replaced the
SLE / SSLE-00s. In 1974 EMI was to stop doing custom pressing because
of the shortage of vinyl, but it seems to have started again in the following
year. The actual pressing was not always done by EMI: Some had a British
Homophone type of matrix number in the run-off - perhaps EMI's own presses were
fully occupied at the time and the record was farmed out to that
company. See also the 'Cyanamid' and 'CIBA' labels. Thanks to
Robert Lyons For The Info.

75 |
Sir Bernard Miles And New Anglian Singers |
A Tapestry Of
Winter |
TOC H CHARITY |
SECW |
1001 |
75 |
Johnny Hewer / Charles Young / Rita
Williams |
Top Of The Bill Music Hall Songs |
ALLIANCE |
SECW |
1002 |
75 |
Barbara Windsor / Barney Gilbraith / Four Singing
Waiters |
Top Of The Bill Music Hall Songs |
ALLIANCE |
SECW |
1003 |
75 |
Rita Williams / Johnny Hewer / Barbara
Windsor |
Top Of The Bill Music Hall Songs |
ALLIANCE |
SECW |
1004 |
75 |
Daphne Anderson / Charles Young / Rita
Williams |
Top Of The Bill Music Hall Songs |
ALLIANCE |
SECW |
1005 |
76 |
Bumble |
It's Bumble |
CYANAMID |
SECW |
1006 |
75 |
Dr Bruce
Fowler |
Which patients need a
diuretic |
CIBA |
ECW |
1001 |
75 |
Not Traced |
|
|
ECW |
1002 |
75 |
Thames Television & Vera Lynn |
The World At War |
THAMES TELEVISION |
ECW |
1003 |
75 |
Tim Brinton |
New Perspective In Beta-Blockade |
CIBA |
ECW |
1004 |