TC



A custom recording concern from Polzeath, Cornwall, run by Basil Tait.  TC put its first record out in 1971, using a TC-LP (or EP)-2000 series; the middle part appears to have been dropped fairly quickly, leaving just TC-2000.  The highest number that Google came up with was TC-2007, an album called 'A Galaxy Of Songs' by Folk duo Adele & Margaret, from 1979.  As I'm sure you can work out from that, the company seems to have made records fairly sporadically, being responsible for seven of them over the course of nine years.  The majority were LPs, but it made at least one 7" record under its own name: a self-titled EP by Apollo Sound, which came out in 1973 and had a catalogue number of TC-EP-2002.  A single by The Cheers on 'Big League' records (q.v.) also has a catalogue number which sound suspiciously as thought it belongs to the TC company: TC-SP-01.  In both cases the style of the matrix numbers on the run-off suggests a British Homophone pressing, and if I had to put (a small amount of) money on The Cheers' single being a TC product I would do so.  As is usually the case with custom recording studios, the limited numbers pressed and the local nature of their distribution make them difficult to trace, so for the sake of interest I've listed in the discography below all the TC records I have been able to come up with, despite the preponderance of albums.

Copyright 2009 Robert Lyons.