The record label of the Church Missionary Society. Unsurprisingly, CMS's output consisted of devotional songs; the few examples I have heard have been of a contemporary Folkish nature. The Society seems to have started issuing records at the end of the 1960s, using catalogue numbers in the LIV/SP-0s; the series was one used by Livingston Studios, of Barnet, where the recording was done. A and B sides had consecutive numbers, the first record shown above being LIV SP-71 / LIV SP-72. In 1974 a CMS-0 series was adopted; numbering seems to have started at CMS-7. At least three different label designs were used. The gold-on-brown design with the Society's name in full is said to date from 1969; a label with the same design in silver-on-red was also used, apparently interspersed with the brown one. Pressing of the few records that I have seen in the vinyl has been by Orlake.
Copyright 2008 Robert Lyons.