Apparently a one-off DIY label. An EP by Barry Richards featuring covers of 'Mona Lisa', My Boy', 'My Woman My Wife' and 'Words' seems to have been RMA's only release. It had a catalogue number of RMA-101. There's no date on the labels but manufacture was by Orlake and the pressing marks indicate that it was made no later than 1975 - if I were forced to put money on a year, that would be the one. The material on the EP is fairly typical Club / Cabaret fare, though 'Mona Lisa' calls Shakin' Stevens to mind and is a cut above the average. The EP was engineered by Roy Neave, who worked at Fairview Studios of Hull, suggesting that the EP originated there; the reference to Gough & Davy of Hull on the label provides a bit of support for that theory. Barry Richards went on to have an EP out on the CMP label (q.v.) in 1976 and added a couple of self-financed albums on SRT (q.v.) in 1978 / 1980.
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