SENTINEL
RECORDS
Independent Cornish label: Sentinel Records was owned and run
by Job Morris. It had a studio in the old school house in the village of
Paul, and it specialised in recording local artists - Choirs, Brass or Silver
Bands, and Folk singers such as Brenda Wootton. It also issued a couple of
LPs featuring a mixture of sound effects, songs and speech, which proved popular
with Cornish expatriates. Sentinel operated from at least 1970 to at least
1985, and possibly longer. It managed around fifty albums, which were
numbered in two different series, SENS-1000 and SENLPP-500, the latter being of
Scottish material, and it also issued cassette tapes. It output of EPs and
singles was less prolific. Seven-inch issues used two different prefixes, SENM
and SEMS; the numbering which followed the prefix also varied. Sentinel
also made custom recordings; these were numbered in the SENP-000s, and had a
somewhat different label layout - the EP by Cedar shown is an
example. As can be seen, the colour schemes of the labels varied: in
addition to the two shown mid-blue-on-white and black-on-orange examples can be
found. A company called Brio Music took over Sentinel after the death of
Mr. Morris; many of its albums have been reissued on CD and are still (2008)
available from the Brio Music website. Distributed By Sentinel Records.
Thanks to Robert Lyons For The Info.
| 70 |
Axminster School Folk
Group |
Axminster School Folk
Group |
SENTINEL |
SENP
EP |
001 |
| 71 |
Tell Mann |
Sings EP |
SENTINEL |
SENP |
002 |
| 72 |
Penryn Infant
School |
Penryn Infant School
EP |
SENTINEL |
SENP |
003 |
| 73 |
The Cornish
All-Stars |
Live' At The 'Golden West'. Penzance |
SENTINEL |
SENP |
004 |
| 74 |
Cedar |
Orange Blossom Special/Ring Of
Fire |
SENTINEL |
SENP |
005 |
| 75 |
The Bude Town
Band |
The H.I.P.P.O.potamus Song / A
Peaside Psalm |
SENTINEL |
SENP |
006 |
| 75 |
Not Traced |
|
SENTINEL |
SENP |
007 |
| 75 |
Not Traced |
|
SENTINEL |
SENP |
008 |
| 76 |
Blue |
Souvenir Edition
EP |
SENTINEL |
SEMS |
009 |
| 77 |
The Bill Matthews New
Sound |
Bye Bye
Fraulein |
SENTINEL |
SENP |
210 |
| 75 |
Rod Mason's Jass
Band |
Follow That Black
Sedan |
SENTINEL |
SENM |
2001 |
| 75 |
The Camborne Town
Band |
The Entertainer/St Louis Blues
March |
SENTINEL |
SENM |
2002 |
| 77 |
The Bill Matthews New
Sound |
Bye Bye
Fraulein |
SENTINEL |
SENP |
210 |
| 84 |
Alan Opie/Kathryn
Allen |
In The Bleak
Midwinter/Just Another Star |
SENTINEL |
SENM |
1080 |
| 89 |
The Cornwall Rugby Squad |
Trelawny's
Army/Trelawny |
SENTINEL |
SEN.RC |
001 |
