ODDBALL PRODUCTIONS
Oddball Productions seems to have been a
production company rather than a record company. It issued at least
four singles from 1979-81, through four different companies - Parlophone, MCA,
Rough Trade and Polygram - though it kept its own separate label identity with
each. Its first release was the first record by Dexy's Midnight
Runners, 'Dance Stance', which managed to tickle the Top 40. The
single was handled by Parlophone, and its catalogue number, R-6028, was borrowed
from Parlophone's own numerical series. Subsequent singles, by Vic
Godard and Johnny Britton, were in a Power Pop sort of vein and were less
successful. Other Oddball labels were operative in the 1990s and the
2000s; I'm not aware of any connection with the '70s version.
Copyright 2007 Robert Lyons.