DANSAN
One of Britain's
premier Strict Tempo Dancing labels - there can't be a Ballroom Dancing school
in the country that hasn't got a sprinkling of Dansan LPs next to the record
player. Dansan singles, however, are much rarer; which, given the
company's target audience, is hardly surprising. The label, which was
owned by Tommy Sanderson, appears to have lasted from 1978 until at least
1986. It issued more than seventy albums during the course of its
existence, but so far I have only managed to trace four seven-inch records:
one single and three EPs. It would appear from their catalogue
numbers that LPs, EPs and singles alike initially shared a common
'000' numbering, with different prefixes for the different formats: singles were
prefixed 'SDS', EPs 'DSEP' and albums 'DS'. There was,
however, a separate DSEP-500 series for 'Shall We Dance' EPs in 1979 (2);
it seems to have been short-lived.
Copyright 2006 Robert
Lyons.