American. Along with the Azrock music publishing company, Peachtree was owned by Bel-Wyn management, which belonged to Soul artist William Bell and his manager, Henry Wynn. It was based in Atlanta, and it issued records from 1969-72 in the USA. The only UK-pressed single on the label dates from a few years after, 1976. Mitty Collier's 'Share What You Got' b/w 'I'd Like To Change Places' kept the P-122 catalogue number of the original American issue, which came out in December 1969. The style of the matrix number suggests that manufacture was by Pye. Richard C. has provided an intriguing note about the single for the 45cat site, one which casts considerable doubt on it being a British issue. It's worth repeating here, in full -
"The Peachtree Mitty Collier record was pressed in the UK by Global Records of Manchester but almost all the thousand copies made went to a dealer in The Netherlands, who had ordered it. Around ten copies were available from HMV in Manchester but it was not officially available from any other shops. So to list it as a UK label could be borderline...."
'Borderline' is probably generous, but for the sake of interest - and for the sake of those ten or so copies that were sold in HMV Manchester - I'll let Peachtree keep its page on this site. Thanks to Klepsie of the 45cat site for bringing Peachtree to my attention in the first place.
Copyright 2016 Robert Lyons.