P. R.



The label of Progress Records, of Blackpool, which appears to have been another one of those custom recording concerns, catering for Club / Cabaret artists who wanted to make a record and were prepared to finance it themselves.  The only five of its products that I have seen, either on the net or in the vinyl, are listed below.  Numbering was in the PR-1000s for singles, EPs and LPs alike, and it reached at least PR-1031, which leaves an awful lot of records unaccounted for.  There were no dates on the labels, but Neil Thompson, who brought the P. R. label to my attention, reports that the Poteen single 'Green Valleys' (PR-1016) dates from 1976.  Labels came in black as well as in blue, the Mike Slater EP being an example.  The Eddie Burnett EP shown above was pressed by Orlake.

Copyright 2007 Robert Lyons.