TOWER
The
record arm of publishers Josef Weinberger, of 10-16 Rathbone Street, London, W1P
6BJ. For most of its life, Tower specialised in Christian
music. Its first EP came out in 1961, and at least thirty-eight of
them were issued during the next eleven years. Numbering was mainly
in the CLM-200s, but there was an early BLM-1000 series, which, if the contents
of the example shown above are anything to go by, may have been dedicated to
Light Orchestral music - Ronald Binge, three of whose tunes are featured on
BLM-1004, is best known for his 'Elizabethan Serenade'. I haven't
been able to trace any Tower record dating from after 1970, though the nature of
them - presumably they were pressed in small quantities and were aimed at a
specific audience - would tend to make them fairly google-proof. CLM-231,
Hayward Osbourne's EP 'Father Forgive Them - Seven Songs Of Faith' dates from
1969, and the highest number I have tracked down, CLM-234, is that of
the 1970 EP shown above, 'A Chance To See' by Peter Lewis & The Liverpool
Raiders, which suggests that the company only just made it into the
Seventies.
Copyright 2009 Robert Lyons.