
NDS 33
It's debatable whether
NDS 33 really qualifies as a
label in its own right, but it had its own special design and the records on it
had their separate numerical series, so I've given it the benefit of the doubt.
As the information on the labels show, it was a product of NDS / Northern
Dance Services (q.v.) of Shipley, who from 1972 started to complement their usual four-track
45rpm EPs with these six-track 33rpm ones. The artists were some of
the NDS regulars, such as Bill Rayner, Bill White and Harry Engleman,
and the material was the same sort of thing that was featured on the
four-track records: strict-tempo music for ballroom dancing. Numbering was in an
LLP-33/xx series, and pressing was often by Pye. Apparently
Bill Rayner's 'Oh! What A Lovely War' (LLP-33/11) is mildly
collectable.


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