BBC Records (Vinyl)

Oooooh! I’ve not seen that sleeve before.

Top Of The Box Vol. 2 Top Of The Box Vol. 2 by Tim Worthington – the story behind every album released by BBC Records And Tapes from Play School Play On to Russell Grant’s Zodiac Jukebox,

Top Of The Box Vol. 2 - the story behind every album released by BBC Records And Tapes. No, genuinely. I listened to them all. Even the one that's just bells.

Paperback (15% off code MANUSCRIPT15) or Kindle from here.

timworthington.org/books/top-of...

A favourite of mine! Great for Vinyl Santa overload 😆

Share a TV show that raised you

2026 BBC Records Backlog YouTube video by Beeb King

Flick through of the photography backlog.
With added messin about with Clipchamp

Music is Hora by Dumitru Zamfira accompanied by the 'Rumanian' Radiotelevision Folk Orchestra, from John Peel's Archive Things, REC 68M, 1970 .

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Shamelessly reposting myself there because I needed the validation 🫡

2026 BBC Records Backlog YouTube video by Beeb King

Flick through of the photography backlog.
With added messin about with Clipchamp

Music is Hora by Dumitru Zamfira accompanied by the 'Rumanian' Radiotelevision Folk Orchestra, from John Peel's Archive Things, REC 68M, 1970 .

youtube.com/shorts/5ghvY...

And the white whale of my discography, Frank O’Connor Speaks REGL 2

It exists here and later catalogues in 1970. It’s got a picture sleeve and everything! You try finding a copy.
One low res image from an ancient auction is all I have.

A telephone number. And a name! This is Myrtle Ross. Origins unknown but one of the first producers at the label, and seems to have handled orders too.

Now this is getting into the nitty gritty. Distribution! In these early days they had a few across Britain. There’s a story about how things evolved in this area. One day…

Err, yeah looks like early 1970. Not 69, oops
Guess the name of the record company! At this point it was just BBC or ‘the BBC label’. And the company was BBC Radio Enterprises, although that was just part of the merged Enterprises - hence the ‘e’.
It became BBC Records in 1970 though.

Right, let’s mine this 69/70 catalogue for all it’s worth.
Prices and price codes. To think we were so ignorant of what these catalogue characters Mrs t (thanks @markayresrws.bsky.social)
One day I’ll do a REALLY boring exploration of the prices and how they changed. Not today though, thank you.

The fold out one was known to me but now in my possession too. It’s from 1971

The full colour one is the earliest I’ve now seen and covers the first 50 releases up to 1969 (Study Series records not for the public, yet)

As a keen discographer, getting my sweaty mitts on original record catalogues is always a thrill.

I did a few posts in the bad place when I tracked down the LP. One of those 'by popular demand' things. Pebble Mill, Charlie Chester, etc.

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in the dirt with his eyes closed and says kinky . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in the dirt with his eyes closed and says kinky .

Pianorama on cassette!

Things I found in my archive.
(no idea)

What I'm wearing to the bsky Valentine's ball.

Orange album cover

WINTER SPORTS Concert Band of the Royal Corps of Signals Tracks include Snow Coach Toboggan Les Patineurs March of The Swiss Alpine Club Clarinet Polka Troika Sleigh Ride

ICE TIME Concert Band Of The Royal Corps Of Signals

Concert Band Of The Royal Corps Of Signals had the late-seventies market for freezing cold sports themed albums well and truly cornered at BBC Records
#WinterOlympics

Did someone say beveragino?

Brian Cant And Floella Benjamin – Singing In The Band

Bands are just not hot like this anymore

Help with research needed!
Do any of you clever clogs know approximately which day of the month The Gramophone was published in the late sixties?
Nowadays it's 7th of the previous month for the next month's issue. Feb issue comes out on 7th Jan. I wanna know if it was a similar thing way back then.

Who YouTube video by Marti Caine - Topic

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Born this day 1945 – Marti Caine relaxing with her tigrine companion on the reissue of the quite brilliant LP Point Of View.

70 years ago today the world's first jet-propelled guided NAAFI took off for Malaya, carrying 10,000 cups of tea.

It was an historic event, captured on the BBC Home Service & later issued on a gramophone record.

More importantly, we talked about it on Goon Pod:
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If you see this, post your green.