A record shop and Country music label, run by Graham and Sue Rowe out of premises in Northbrook St, Newbury, Berkshire. Checkmate began issuing records in late 1976. It concentrated on LPs, the catalogue numbers of which reached at least CMLF-1032 by April 1978, but it issued a solitary single, Jimmy Payne's 'Feeling The Weight Of My Chains' b/w 'Can I Pick You Up', which was numbered CMSS-806. A report in Billboard of the 4th of February 1978 says that the singer was coming to the UK to do radio spots and to promote the record, which suggests that it was released around that time. I haven't managed to track down a copy to scan it, so I've put a picture of an LP label up to give an idea of what the single may have looked like. If anybody can rustle up a scan and drive it this way I'd be only too glad to corrall it on this page.
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