American, out of St. Louis; owned by Ken Keene and Frankie Ford. In May 1974 'Billboard' magazine reported that Sea Cruise Productions had signed a contract with Terry Waghorne, the managing director of UK company Southern Sound (q.v.) for product from its Briarmeade label to be released here, under the Sea Cruise banner. The article said that the first fruits of the agreement were to be tracks by Frankie Ford, Al Jordan, Billy Joe Duniven, Pallardy & Hawkins, Etta Cox and Jimmy Ward & The Streakers, along with old material by Narvel Felts. The records were to have the Sea Cruise logo on them, and would bear the designation Sea Cruise Productions (UK). In the event, however, Southern Sound appears not to have survived into 1975 and a British-recorded maxi-single by Bradford-based Rock 'n' Roll band the Dave Lee Sound seems to have been Sea Cruise's only release. The tracks featured on the single were 'Say Mama', 'Hearts Of Stone' and 'Two Hearts In Lipstick', and its catalogue number was SCDL-100. The band made a couple of albums: one for Southern Sound, 'The Dave Lee Sound Play Rock 'n' Roll Requests' (SSLP-401), and what appears to be a self-financed one on the Throstle Nest label, 'Carry On' (TN-001; 1975). Pianist Dave Lee earned a name for himself as 'The British Jerry Lee Lewis'. Thanks to Hawkmarty of the 45cat site for the use of his scan here, and to Keith S of the same site who sourced most of the information on this page.
Copyright 2007 Robert Lyons.