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RECORDS
Sound News Productions was a London-based custom recording
firm. It was active from the 1950s into at least the 1970s, and it seems
to have specialised in private recordings of performances and broadcasts, which
in some cases were cut directly to disc. Its products covered a wide
spectrum of recorded sound, ranging from a sung Mass through Classical music,
Gospel and Folk to such oddities as an album entitled 'Elvis Talks Back' and
recordings of the Congress of the International Psycho-Analytical
Association. Some of its output was available for the general public, some
was not. Numbering appears to have been in the SNP-0s for the most part;
it seems to have got into the SNP-200s before undergoing a slight hiatus, from
which it eventually emerged with a different set of numbers, SM-0. Until
some point in 1975 the labels had 'Sound News Productions' on them from around
SM-65 this became 'Sound News Studios'. The labels can also be found in other
colours. At least one single made as a promotional tool for a business,
George Fenton's 'Club 18-30's Holiday' (SM-141; 1977), had labels with that
business's name and logo on it. A couple more had basic Sound News Studios
labels with a record company name added to them: see 'Noisy Record Company' and
'Reel'. The style of the matrix number on the run-off of the Wild Geese
Folk Group EP shown above suggests that it was pressed by Pye, and the Noisy and
Reel singles were made by Sound Manufacturing, so it looks as though Sound News
may not have done their own pressing. Thanks to Robert Lyons For The
Info.
| 71 |
No Artist
Listed |
A Programme Of Music From Cedar
Hall, Thundersley |
SNP |
SNP |
187 |
| 71 |
Choir Of St Mildred'S Church Addiscombe |
Magnificat In B Minor |
SNP |
SNP |
212 |
| 73 |
London'S Voice Of
Praise |
Songs Of Praise From City
Missionaries |
SNP |
LCM |
101 |
| 73 |
The Wild Geese Folk
Group |
Save Our
Steelworks |
SNP |
SNP SH |
01 |
| 75 |
Junior Choir Of Christ's
Hospital Hertford |
Junior Choir Of Christ's Hospital Hertford |
SNP |
SM |
97 |
| 76 |
Past And
Present |
Fall In Love With You |
SNP |
SM |
123 |
| 77 |
George Fenton |
Club 18-30's Holiday |
SNP |
SM |
141 |
| 78 |
The Duncans |
Blackbird |
SNP |
SM |
179 |
| 75 |
Combined Choral Societies Of Cheltenham
College |
Music From Cheltenham College Chapel |
SNP |
SM |
64 |
| 77 |
The Calderdale Youth Symphony
Orchestra |
Symphony No. 5 1/2 |
SNP |
SM |
118 |
| 78 |
Port Talbot Cymric Male Choir |
Cymric Glee Canadian Tour 1978 |
SNP |
SM |
174 |
| 78 |
The Duncans |
Blackbird |
SNP |
SM |
179 |
| 79 |
David Firman |
The
Glass Menagerie |
SNP |
SM |
210 |
| 79 |
Roy Demaine With The Colin Barry
Sound |
Roy Demaine |
SNP |
SM |
211 |
| 81 |
Mevagissey Male Choir |
The Song Of Cornwall / Trelawney |
SNP |
SM |
240 |
| 81 |
Holman-Climax Male Voice Choir |
Cornwall Forever ! |
SNP |
SM |
255 |
