FUZZ (1976-79)
There were two Fuzz labels in the 1970s. This one, the
earlier of them, was conceived and born in Holmwood House School,
Colchester. Both sides of the Kevin Rothero single pictured above
featured songs from the School production of a musical, 'Sweet Dreams', which
had been co-written by Trevor Huggons and David Wenden, who was one of the
masters at the school. I am grateful to Mr. Wenden for the following
information:
"The record was pressed in response to airplay
of the song 'Where am I going?' on the BBC Home Service, who played it at 6.00
and 7.00 am on the local farming programme! We thought that
our humble school play was going global, but of course it didn't and we gave most
of our copies away to charity for use on tombolas. The label was
used once more some years later to record a song called 'Goldfinches', again a school
initiative, but it did not go anywhere. The name was inspired by the
fact that the school headmaster was nicknamed 'Pad', as in 'Brillopad', because
of his wiry hair, and we decided that as he had funded the project his name
should be on the label. Hence the use of yet another nickname, albeit
tenuous - 'Fuzz' was born!"
As the catalogue
number, LYN-3327, shows, the single was pressed by Lyntone. The
second Fuzz single, 'Goldfinches' b/w 'Brotherhood' by Baker's Dozen, came out
in 1979 and was another Lyntone
pressing; it was numbered LYN-6099. David Wenden went on to write
several more plays, and he eventually become one of the UK's foremost teachers
of dramatic art. He has a website at http://www.davidwenden.co.uk
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.