Almost as basic as a record design can get. Stryka seems to have been a DIY effort; the method of company identification consisted of printed sticky labels put onto a standard white label, which is pure DIY. Rory Blackwell's EP featuring 'Help Me Make It Through The Night', 'Feelings', 'Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast' and 'Drum Rhapsody' appears to have been the only release on Stryka. There is no date on the label, but Steve Hill, who drew the EP to my attention, assures me that it dates from the 1970s and I'm quite prepared to bow to his superior knowledge. The catalogue number on the run-off is BP-001, the matrix number P-2065. This same EP can be found with a sticker on it crediting it to 'Uncle Rory's Records' (q.v.). Blackwell also had a single out on his own 'Rory' label (q.v.) in 1976, featuring two of these tracks, 'Daddy' and 'Drum Rhapsody'; presumably it pre-dated this by a year or two. In addition he had an album out on Ellie Jay (q.v.) in 1978, 'Two Sides Of Rory Blackwell'.
Copyright 2008 Robert Lyons.