The record arm of publishers Josef Weinberger, of 10-16 Rathbone Street, London, W1P 6BJ. For most of its life, Tower specialised in Christian music. Its first EP came out in 1961, and at least thirty-eight of them were issued during the next eleven years. Numbering was mainly in the CLM-200s, but there was an early BLM-1000 series, which, if the contents of the example shown above are anything to go by, may have been dedicated to Light Orchestral music - Ronald Binge, three of whose tunes are featured on BLM-1004, is best known for his 'Elizabethan Serenade'. I haven't been able to trace any Tower record dating from after 1970, though the nature of them - presumably they were pressed in small quantities and were aimed at a specific audience - would tend to make them fairly google-proof. CLM-231, Hayward Osbourne's EP 'Father Forgive Them - Seven Songs Of Faith' dates from 1969, and the highest number I have tracked down, CLM-234, is that of the 1970 EP shown above, 'A Chance To See' by Peter Lewis & The Liverpool Raiders, which suggests that the company only just made it into the Seventies.
Copyright 2009 Robert Lyons.