Another label about which information has proved next-to-impossible to find. To judge by the catalogue number of the Tony Marsden EP pictured above, Countdown would appear to have issued at least seven records. Googling, however, has revealed no sign of any of the others, so it looks likely that the EP may be a one-off and that the '2007' number was not part of a series. Pressing was by Lyntone; the matrix number in the run-off, LYN-4064, gives a date of early 1977. The EP format and the content of the record - Tony Marsden appears to be a cabaret singer, and the songs are by other by other people - suggest that Countdown was a custom-recording company, one which made recordings for people who paid them to do so. Tony Marsden went on to record for MPA (q.v.) towards the end of the decade.
Copyright 2007 Robert Lyons.