A short-lived concern from 1979-c.81. Fabulous seems to have released around nine or ten singles, two of them in the '70s. Initially numbering was in a JC-0 series, which reached JC-6; in or around 1980 this changed to the FABS-100s, which got at least as far as FABS-103. The first and third of the singles, Young & Moody's, 'The Devil Went Down To Georgia' and 'All The Good Friends' had a Status Quo connection, in that Bob Young played with the Quo, roadied for them, and co-wrote several of their hits; 'All The Good Friends' was produced by Francis Rossi. Three more were by Phil Cordell, under his alias of 'Springwater', FABS-103 being a reissue of his 'I Will Return' hit. JC-4, 'Can't See', was by Punk band The Drones. Two different label designs were used: an initial plain white one (1) used for the first two releases was replaced by one with a bit more interest to it (2) when the third came out. The company had at least two distributors during its lifetime: JC-2 was handled by Pinnacle, and JC-3 to 6 by Pye. The FABS-100s were distributed by Pye / PRT. Thanks to Duncan Marvin for bringing that series to my attention.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.