TREND
RECORDS
Independent label: Trend Records was a moderately obscure
label, owned by London record dealer Barry Class. Trend operated from 1968 to
1971. It is most often met with in the shape of Jazz-Rock-flavoured LPs by
Warm Dust and Swegas, which are beginning to command respectable prices
nowadays. Its first batch of singles, dating from 1968 and numbered in the
TRE-1000s, are even more collectable: their labels were pale blue with a purple
logo, and their catalogue numbers suggest that there were at least ten of them.
In 1970 Pye took over manufacture and distribution; numbers changed to a TNT-50
series and a new label design was adopted, which featured what I always thought
was a ceiling fan but is in fact a tape reel. Trend didn't stay with Pye
for long; before the end of the year they had moved to Philips. Numbers
changed again, this time to a 6099-000 series, which reached at least 6099-010,
though some of these were used for overseas-only releases. Philips's habit
of dinking the centres of its singles played merry hell with the Trend label
design. The company never had any hits, and it doesn't seem to have
survived into 1972. Distributed By Pye and
Phonogram RecordsThanks to Robert Lyons For The Info.
| 70 |
Chads |
Dearest Linda |
TREND |
TNT |
50 |
| 70 |
Abel Mann |
Sun In The Morning |
TREND |
TNT |
51 |
| 70 |
Consortium |
Melanie Cries Alone |
TREND |
TNT |
52 |
| 70 |
Almond Marzipan |
Opan Up Your Heart |
TREND |
TNT |
53 |
| 70 |
Campbell Sharon |
All The Loving You'Ve Got |
TREND |
TNT |
54 |
| 70 |
Almond Marzipan |
Marie Take A Chance |
TREND |
TNT |
55 |
| 70 |
Old Gold |
It'S Goodbye |
TREND |
TNT |
56 |
| 70 |
Swegas |
What You Gonna
Do |
TREND |
6099 |
001 |
| 70 |
Warm Dust |
It'S A Beautiful Day |
TREND |
6099 |
002 |
| 70 |
Swegas |
What You Gonna Do (Germany) |
TREND |
6099 |
003 |
| 71 |
Consortium |
Annabella |
TREND |
6099 |
004 |
| 71 |
Young Colin |
Anytime At All |
TREND |
6099 |
005 |
| 71 |
Audrey |
Getting Ready For A Heartache |
TREND |
6099 |
006 |
| 71 |
Marzipan |
My Kind Of Music |
TREND |
6099 |
007 |
| 71 |
Stevens Julie |
After Haggerty |
TREND |
6099 |
008 |
| 71 |
Consortium |
Melanie Cries Alone
(Portugal) |
TREND |
6099 |
009 |
| 71 |
Foundations |
Stoney Ground |
TREND |
6099 |
010 |
| 72 |
Consortium |
Sunday In The Park / Tell Me My Friend
(Portugal) |
TREND |
6099 |
011 |
| 70 |
The Chads / Consortium / Abel
Mann |
Trend promotional label
sampler |
TREND |
TNT P |
1 |
