A mysterious one, this. The Little Winston single pictured above, 'Come Back Baby' (CP-001; 1979) is the only one I've ever seen on the Crazy Plane label, in the vinyl, and I live fewer than fifteen miles from Hednesford, which is where the company - a recording studio as well as a label - was based. Little Winston, who owned Crazy Plane, was a local DJ. A peculiarity of his single is that the light-blue labels have been pasted over a red label, as can be seen in (2). Perhaps the people at Crazy Plane changed their mind about the original label design at some point, or got the single back from the pressing plant with an unwanted red label on it. Be that as it may. The music is Foundations-style Soul-flavoured Pop, and the matrix number says that the side marked 'A' was in fact the 'B'-side, the 'AA' side being the proper 'A'-side. If you see what I mean. There appear to have been at least three other singles on Crazy Plane, if catalogue numbers are anything to go by. The second release was 'Mr. Fixit' by Cannock Punk band UXB (CP-002), which was issued in 1980 and had an injection-moulded label. Word has it that that single changes hands for quite large amounts of money nowadays. A site devoted to UXB can be found here. The CP prefix seems to have changed to SP by the time of the fourth single, 'Once In A Blue Moon' by Subita & Emphasis (SP-004; 1981), which was also injection-moulded but was pressed in France. Thanks to Simon Hughes and Robert Bowes for catalogue information.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.