As can be seen from the discography below, the vast majority of the records on the Spider label were about football clubs or football personalities, the exception being an EP by the Llandulas Male Voice Choir. The sleeve of the Wrexham record says that an LP of Wrexham FC songs would soon be available - that was in 1978 - so presumably the company made at least one venture into the album market. As Vic Blackwell was involved in several Spider records it seems like a good guess that the label was his: in what was presumably an economy exercise, after being issued in its own right on SP-2 his 'Red Machine' appeared on the 'B' sides of SP-04, SP-05 and SP-06 alongside his 'March Of The Champions'. He was also responsible for several other football songs on different labels in praise of Nottingham Forest, Everton, Middlesbrough and Liverpool (again), either recording them himself - solo or with supporters - or getting the team itself to sing along. If anybody knows what SP-07 was, I'd be interested to hear - it might have been the Wrexham LP, perhaps. Thanks to Robert Bowes for the first and fifth scans, and to John Timmis for the second.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.