Broadway seems to have started out as one of the labels of Warwick Kent's 'Spectrum Sound Studios' of Westcliff-on-Sea - see 'Spectrum (SSS prefix)' for the other. It appears to have been responsible for just one record in the '70s: an EP by Club / Cabaret singer Brad Ford, which offered versions of 'Memories', 'Mama', 'Just In Time' and 'Love Story'. The EP was pressed by Orlake and had a catalogue number of 97661, which I suspect is the reverse of the date that it was recorded. The other records on the label that I have traced so far have all been from the '80s. Brad Ford joined with a band called Festival for a single, 'I Can't Say Goodbye' b/w 'Passing Strangers', the latter track featuring Terri Sheern; its catalogue number was 18841, which I would again guess is the reverse of its recording date. An LP by a family band called Four-May-Shun, 'Just Four-May-Shun', also dated from 1981; it was made through custom recording firm SRT (q.v.) and had catalogue / matrix numbers of MJPD-268 and X/81/CUS-1041 - 'MJPD' were the initials of the four band members. A second Four-May-Shun LP, 'Four-May-Shun Plus', followed in 1982, as MJPDD-87-268; that too was recorded at Spectrum Sound.
From that point Broadway seems to have served as a vehicle for singles, albums and cassettes by Four-May-Shun, either as a band or backing member Julian May, and the link with Spectrum Sound appears to have been broken - subsequent recordings were made at Diploma Studios, Bicknacre. The latest of their records under the Broadway label that I have found was from 1986, though they continued to release self-financed recordings and are still going today, under the name of 'The Mays'. The colour, font and logo of the Broadway label changed several times during the '80s; examples can be found on the 45cat site.
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