Dating from the second half of the '70s, Plus 8 was a product of Ron Lee's Lee Sound Recording Studios, of Pelsall, near Cannock, Staffordshire. I doubt very much that Lee Sound actually issued records, as such; Plus 8 looks suspiciously like one of those labels which were put on private pressings, in limited quantities, for people - Folk singers, Club and Cabaret performers - who wanted them. A listen to the tracks on the Lee Wilson EPs tends to confirm this suspicion. Albums and singles shared the same PE-100 (or possibly PE-110) numbering. The earliest record in that series that I have stumbled upon was an album on a label called 'Rainbow' - not one of the Rainbows that are on this site - and two of the next three were on the 'Chrillimac' label, which suggests that Lee Sound tried a few different names before setting on 'Plus 8'. Records on the label are very uncommon, as might be expected; those that I have managed to trace are listed below. The two that I have seen in the vinyl were pressed by Lyntone, and the label also came in silver on dark blue. PE-118 was apparently a reissue of Great Western (q.v.) DM-003: it has that matrix number in the run-off, scratched out.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.