You'd expect a label called Yorkie to come from Yorkshire, but according to the credits on the scans shown above it actually came from Biggleswade, Bedfordshire. The only records I've come across on the label have been by Rock 'n' Roll band Coast To Coast. They were an EP featuring 'Rock This Joint' and three other tracks (JB-101; 1978), and 'The Hucklebuck' b/w 'Telephone Baby' (JB-102; 1979). Neither had a date on it, and I wasn't altogether convinced that they were from the '70s, but I'm happy to say that Mick Cooper has kindly mailed and supplied the years of issue, which were passed on to him by Alan Mills, the singer with the band. Coast To Coast hit the Charts in 1981 with a re-recorded version of 'The Hucklebuck' (Polydor, POSP-214), which made it into the Top 5; the versions on the Yorkie single are different to - and somewhat sparser than - those on the Polydor one. Finance for the Yorkie recordings was provided by a record shop, J. B. Music, of 5, Church Street.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.