A product of Fellside Recordings (q.v.), of Workington. Lake appears to have had two separate incarnations: it is most well-known as a specialist Jazz label, dating from 1984 onwards, but it first saw the light of day in 1977, apparently as a custom recording label - the few of its records that I've been able to track down have been by the likes of church choirs and people who seem to be Club / Cabaret artists, and there's no mention of any of them in the 'archive' section of the Fellside website. Numbering of 7" records and albums alike was in the C-2000s, and the series reached at least C-2029, which came out in 1981. Googling only brings up a handful of releases, most of them LPs, but there was at least one single: it was by Derek Maddison, and it offered versions of 'I'll Go Where Your Music Takes Me' and 'If'. Catalogue number of the single was C-2018, and it came out in 1979. C-2000, an album called 'Love Moves' by Howard Bond, was released on the 'Sticky' label, so it may perhaps be that Lake was originally intended to be 'Sticky'; there was, however, already a Sticky label around (see 'Sticky 1973-78'), so a change of name may have been called for. Thanks to Hawkmarty of the 45cat site for calling Lake to my attention and for supplying the scan.
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