An oddity. In the run-up to the 1970 general election Campaign Records put out a single containing an excerpt from a speech from Edward Heath on one side and a novelty vocal number called 'Little Steam Engines' by Ernest Wilson & His Orchestra on the other. The two sides weren't as unconnected as at first they seem to be: Heath quoted an old speech by Harold Wilson in which Wilson had said that what Britain needed were a lot of one- or two-horsepower steam engines; while the song pointed out that steam engines had had their day. The record was numbered SDR-9007; given Ernest Wilson's involvement the 'SD' may well indicate that it was made through his Silver Dollar (q.v.) company. Googling reveals no other records in that series, so perhaps there weren't any and the '7' just referred to the record's size. The style of the matrix number suggests a British Homophone pressing, and the record came in a picture sleeve which gives the company's address as 1, Jermyn Street, London SW1.
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