A sister-label to the London-based strict-tempo label Silver Dollar. The seven Northern releases that I have seen have been reissues of Silver Dollar EPs: I have listed them below, but there may be others out there. They had the original issue dates on their labels, which doesn't help us with regard to when they were issued, but as one was a reissue of a record which first came out in 1970 that at least gives us a 'some time after' point. The records came in sleeves with a handstamp of distributors Nothern Dance Services on them (3, 4) rather than in Silver Dollar company sleeves, which suggests that Silver Dollar may have stopped distributing their own records by that time. If that is the case, Northern records would be from 1976 at the earliest. The EPs kept the old catalogue numbers but were given a new prefix, SDN, and a different artist credit, to Ernest Wilson And His Old Time Orchestra. At least one issue combined one side each from two different EPs, SDX-3922 and SDX-3942, and combined their catalogue numbers into SDN-3922-42 (2).
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