To judge from the few of its records that I have ever see listed, the Leicester Recording Company would appear to have been a custom recording concern. Four of those records were EPs, the earliest being 'Christmas With The Melody Girls' which was numbered GSP-11864 and which was made through Gosport Sound Products (q.v.); there was no date on it but comparison with other Gosport Sound numbers suggests that it came out in 1968 or possibly 1969. The other three were a self-titled one from Leicester-based club band The Good Impressions (LRC GI-1; 1970); 'A Christmas Miscellany' from the New Parks Ringers, a team of handbell ringers from the New Parks Boys' School, Leicester (1975); and 'The Youth Concert Band 1978' by the Leicester Schools Concert Band (LRC LSCB-1; 1978). There were also a couple of LPs: one was a recording of a church service at the Leicester City Football Ground ('Diocese of Leicester Jubilee Eucharist', LRC HR-1; 1976); the other was by a steel band called Ocho Rios, 'Stateside' (LRC ORS-1). In addition, the company was responsible for several records which came out on the Charnwood label (q.v). It doesn't take a genius to work out where the label was based, but its actual address was 5a Thurcaston Road. The method of numbering generally seems to have been to use an LRC prefix followed by initials referring to the artist / customer, with the actual number indicating how many records the company had made for them. It's not really possible to google that kind of numerical series, so the quantity of records produced through the Leicester Recording Company is anybody's guess at the moment. The few that I've managed to dredge up are listed below.
Copyright 2007 Robert Lyons.