London based, and apparently a one-off. A football song, 'Our Crystal Palace' by The Crystal Band, appears to have been Stupet's sole release. It was backed with a song called 'U.S.A.' and it had a catalogue number of STU-67. There are no dates on the labels but happily the 'A' side mentions the names of manager Terry Venables and players Kenny Sansom and David Swindelhurst; they had all moved on by the autumn of 1980, so it's a good bet that the song is from 1979, the year that Palace won the Second Division title. The 'Stu' of the label name presumably relates to co-writer and co-producer Stuart Carbran; if the 'P' of co-writer P. Baum stood for Peter, that would account for the 'pet' part. Co-producer Keith Bonsoir was responsible for a good number of other songs and productions, but the only other K.P.S. Productions record that I have been able to trace came out on the Plant Music label (q.v.) in 1979 - it was a version of 'My Favourite Things' b/w 'Sexy, Sexy, Sexy' by Valentine (50007).
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