An independent label from Coventry. SMA - Stavely Makepeace Associates - was owned by Rob Woodward and Nigel Fletcher, the driving forces behind both Stavely Makepeace and Lieutenant Pigeon. It seems to have issued just two singles, one by each of those groups, with a five-year gap between them. Pigeon's 'Disco Bells' b/w 'Steam Train Stag' (SMA-1501) came out in April 1978, through Lugton; SMA-1502, Makepeace's, 'Just Tell Her Fred Said Goodbye' b/w 'Opus 306' appeared in November of 1983, with a different label design and a different distributor, Spartan. As can be seen from the scans the 'A' and 'B' sides of the first single were coloured differently. SMA resurfaced c.2003, when Woodward & Fletcher released a series of new Lieutenant Pigeon CD singles.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.