LUCKY (RC / LS prefixes)

 

The second of three Lucky labels to appear in the '70s is by far the most obscure.  As the vast majority of its records featured speedway riders turned singers Reg 'Lucky' Luckhurst and Malcolm Brown it seems a fair bet that the label was theirs.  The only three of its records that I have ever seen in the vinyl are shown above: the second is a double-'A'-side single split between Luckhurst and Brown.  Backing for two of those records was provided by Ken Mackintosh and his orchestra.  Catalogue numbers were in an RC-1000 series, but it seems to have leaped from 1002 to 1010.  The split single, which was released in 1974, had a catalogue number of RC-1010 / 1011, each side having its own number (2).
The first two releases on the label were Malcolm Brown's 'No One But You' b/w 'Tuesday' (RC-1001; 9/73), and 'The Joker' b/w 'Cafe Commercial' by The Harpp (RC-1002; 9/73).  I would guess that they both had had the same kind of labels (1) as they came out at the same time.  On Reg Luckhurst's 'You Belong To Me b/w 'Downhearted', which is numbered RC-1014, the 'A' side has a matrix number of 'RC-1012 A' and the 'B' side one of 'RC-1013 A', which suggests that they may have been the 'A' sides of two previous records.  It seems more likely that it is just a peculiarity in the numbering, but if anybody knows of an RC-1012 or an RC-1013 I'd be interested to hear from them.  Pressing of that record was by C.H. Rumble.  Reg Luckhurst had previously recorded for the Decca and Crystal labels (q.v. both).  A few years later several more Lucky singles were issued, using a LS-10 numerical series: the few that I have managed to find are again by Brown or Luckhurst and are listed below.  'Music Master' gives a release date of October 1980 for all of them, which is unlikely but not impossible - perhaps that was the date when the company brought the records to the publisher's attention.  If that is the case, they may possibly date from the late '70s.

Copyright 2009 Robert Lyons.