Pollen was the label of the Pollen recording studios, of Haxby, Yorkshire. It put out records by the usual sort of Club / Cabaret artists who used the services of custom recording firms, but it also came up with a few collectables including a couple of singles by Mod / Punk band Sema 4, 'If I ever Know' (PBM-022; 1979), and 'Capital City' (PBM-024; S/79/CUS-512; 1979). Albums, EPs and singles alike generally shared a PBM-000 numerical series, which seems occasionally to have been used as a matrix number rather than a catalogue number. A couple of records made through Ric-Rac Sound Studios of Leeds had their own RRS-000 series - see the 'Ric-Rac Sound' page. The Pollen records I've managed to trace up to 1981 are listed below, with the albums being in square brackets. Some are on Pollen, some on other labels. The highest number I've seen so far was PBM-081, an album called 'Today' by the Dore Male Voice Choir, which came out in 1985. Records made through SRT tend to have that company's plain labels, as shown in the fourth scan, which Nicholas Hough has kindly provided.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.