STANDFAST
RECORDS

Independent label: Standfast Records was run by producer Ian Grant and based in Atney Road, London. Standfast had signed to Shannon, for distribution and that it had two discrete prefixes for its catalogue numbers, 'PINE' for Country and 'CONE' for folk, but the only PINEs that records was a couple of Irish Folk LPs and the EP by None Such Green shown above (which features 'I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing' and 'Home To Rusthall' on the reverse).  Standfast had already been on the scene for a number of years at that point: PINE-1212, an album by Le Cheile called 'Lord Mayo', dates from 1975, and a 1974 LP 'Music and Songs From The 6th National Scout & Guides Festival of Folk Music' (FF-1-6) while not on the Standfast label has a credit to the Standfast Music Company.  The only other Standfast 7" that I have been able to track down was a three-track effort from 1983 featuring snooker player Ray Reardon, 'It's Snooker Again' b/w an instrumental version by Brass Standfast and a track by Dale Mitchell Humphries, 'The Night I Played Ray Reardon' (CONE-1216).  Its label was of the same design as the one below but was yellow. Ian Grant had formed Steadfast because it gave him complete control as a producer.  He had produced several Country albums for both The Hillsiders and Pete Sayers in the '70s, so he had experience in that particular field. . Nonesuch Green - This Is Our Record. The four tracks included one recorded live at Folk Fest 8 and three additional tracks that were recorded at St Paul’s Church, Rusthall, which doubled as a recording studio. I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing, Home To Rusthall,  Bread And Fishes, O'Rafferty's Motor Car. Nonesuch Green: English Folk group comprising of Scouts from the St Paul's Rusthall Scout Group from Rusthall, Tunbridge Wells. One of the new songs ‘Home to Rusthall’ was written and composed by Paul Dobson one of the founder members of the group.  The record went on sale in aid of Group funds through members of the Scout Group, anywhere the group performed, and later through a few local shops in Tunbridge Wells and Rusthall in the run up to Christmas 1978.  Further recordings and broadcasts were to follow at Tunbridge Wells Hospital Radio and BBC Radio Kent.  Thanks to Robert Lyons For The Info.

 
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75 Le Chéile Lord Mayo (Album) STANDFAST PINE 1212
75 Colin Hindmarsh Alive With Colin Hindmarsh (Album) STANDFAST PINE 1213
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77 Bobby Casey, Gabriel McKeon, Raymond Rowland Traditional Irish Music From Galway And Clare (Album) STANDFAST PINE 1216
78 St. Paul's Rusthall Scout Group Nonesuch Green - This Is Our Record STANDFAST PINE 1217.E
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78 Lorne Gibson Shadows Of Her Mind STANDFAST CONE 1215S
83 Ray Reardon It's Snooker Again STANDFAST CONE 1216



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