SOVEREIGN
RECORDS

Independent label: Sovereign Records was relatively short-lived member of the EMI family, with a Progressive slant.  Sovereign was owned by Ben Nisbet, and was launched as the record arm of his newly-formed Big Ben Music publishing company.  It had an interesting roster of artists, including Renaissance, Peter Banks, Flash, Juliet Lawson and Public Foot the Roman.  It never achieved the success or the reputation of EMI's own Progressive label, Harvest, and neither its albums nor its singles are met with all that often nowadays.  Sovereign operated from early 1972 to mid 1974.  Its singles were numbered in the SOV-100s, and the label design remained unchanged throughout, apart from a tweak in the perimeter credits: for the very last single the reference to 'The Gramophone Co.' at 9 o'clock was replaced by one to 'EMI Records'.  The same alteration was carried out on most of the other labels in the EMI group, albeit six months or so earlier in most cases - perhaps Sovereign used up existing stock before bringing the new type in. Thanks to Robert Lyons For The Info.

     

72	The Joseph Horowitz Orchestra	The Search For The Nile	SOVEREIGN	SOV	101
90	Morin And Wilson	Save The Country	SOVEREIGN	SOV	102
72	Earl Jordan	Sugar Joe	SOVEREIGN	SOV	103
72	Sovereign Collection	Theme From Upstairs Downstars	SOVEREIGN	SOV	104
72	Flash	Small Beginnings	SOVEREIGN	SOV	105
72	Rod Dawes	Brand New Tennessee Waltz	SOVEREIGN	SOV	106
72	Madrigal	Time Of The Seasons	SOVEREIGN	SOV	107
72	Richard Plant	All Through The Day	SOVEREIGN	SOV	108
72	Earl Jordan	Lord Release Me	SOVEREIGN	SOV	109
72	Fumble	Hello Mary Lou	SOVEREIGN	SOV	110
72	Juliet Lawson	Only A Week Away	SOVEREIGN	SOV	111
72	Sovereign Collection	Theme From Upstairs, Downstairs	SOVEREIGN	SOV	112
72	Renaissance	Prologue	SOVEREIGN	SOV	113
72	Yellow Pager	Dougal	SOVEREIGN	SOV	114
73	Patrick Campbell-Lyons	Everybody Should Fly	SOVEREIGN	SOV	115
73	Flash	Watch Your Step	SOVEREIGN	SOV	116
73	The Joseph Horowitz Orchestra	Search For The Nile	SOVEREIGN	SOV	117
73	Fumble	Million Seller	SOVEREIGN	SOV	118
73	Patrick Campbell-Lyons	Out On The Road	SOVEREIGN	SOV	119
73	David Ireland	Shoot The Family Man	SOVEREIGN	SOV	120
73	Fumble	Alexandra Park	SOVEREIGN	SOV	121
73	Mouse	We Can Make It	SOVEREIGN	SOV	122
73	Steve ´N´Bonny	Me ´N´My Soul	SOVEREIGN	SOV	123
73	Good Times	Cokey Cokey	SOVEREIGN	SOV	124
74	Virginia McKenna	Love That I Have	SOVEREIGN	SOV	125
74	Peter Sellers	House On The Rue Sichel	SOVEREIGN	SOV	126
74	Mouse	All The Fallen Teen Angels	SOVEREIGN	SOV	127