Folk single 7" ross Cochrane on deroy sound service uk press 1967

	£		33
	$		43

Deroy sound service label ultra rare

1 ever made on acetate 7" uk

Ross Cochrane in 1967

What a find in ex condition one for deroy collectors ive looked at the website and they claim there are more artists that we have never heard how and the folk side is some great material to come out of the wood work

To end all rarities only 1 may have ever be made and the sticker shows the home address where they recorded it and it also says 45rpm but it plays on 33 rpm see photo.

They both play music and its a really great find to go with the album



This well worth its rarity and it will never be seen again

Happy bidding

The music on both sides is instrumental folk with guitar too

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DEROY

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An obscure but collectable label.  Deroy Sound Services seems to have been basically a custom recording-and-pressing concern.  It was owned by Derrick Marsh; in addition to putting out dozens of cinema- and theatre-organ records he recorded some very desirable Folk and Rock albums, by the likes of Parameter, Forever Amber, and Dark, all of which were given extremely limited pressings.  Frequently Deroy records came with labels upon which the details of artist and title had to be handwritten (1), or with blank white labels; artists could paste their own, more informative, labels on their records, as has been done with the Thurlstone Bells EP shown above (4).   The additional label, which has been pasted on rather roughly, claims that it is a Sonroy recording, so I have included it under 'Sonroy' as well as putting it here.  Other records had more conventional labels pressed on to the disc, as is the case with the John Hall EP (5).  The matrix number of the 'B' side, ADM/EP-76/3 - just visible, for once, on the scan, at the bottom - appears to be an earlyish one (the matrix number of the 'A' was ADM/EP-75/3).    There doesn't appear to have been an actual printed label with a Deroy logo on it; the company's products are generally only identifiable by means to their catalogue and / or matrix numbers, as was the case with one of the few of its 7" records that I have seen: a single by the Blackburn Rovers F. C. squad for the season 1972-73, 'By Gum We'll Make It A Day' (DEROY-880).  The label of that particular single was white with blue printing, and lacked any kind of decoration.  The studio also offered a tape-to vinyl service; these pressings, presumably, could be in single figures.  While many of the company's records had a DEROY prefix others were prefixed 'ADM' - 'ADM LP' for albums, 'ADM EP' for EPs, and plain 'ADM' for singles, the initials standing for 'A. D. Marsh'.  Both DEROYs and ADMs seem to have shared the same numerical series, but each side of an 'ADM' record had its own number.
As for dates of operation, 'Tape Recorder' magazine of November 1965 says that the Deroy Sound Service offered tape-to-disc and tape-to-tape services from an address in Hest Bank, Lancaster, and had 'twenty years experience', which suggests a start in the mid '40s.  The article also says that transfer of tapes to 78rpm records was available, which again suggests a pre-1960s origin.  An album exists of a December 1960 Mass from St. Alban's Church, Blackburn, with the Hest Bank address on it; while the material on the 'Caren & The Triplets' record shown above (2) was recorded in October 1961 according to the person who was doing a commentary on it - it is just a record of parents talking to their young children and the children responding.  At what point these were actually transferred to vinyl remains open to question, but it seems likely that it was done not long after the original recordings were made.  By the end of 1966 Deroy's labels had a new address on them, 'Little Place, Moss Delph Lane, Aughton, Ormskirk, Lancs'.  Early '70s labels indicate another change of address, to Carnforth, Lancashire (3).  'Billboard' of the 10th of June 1972 has '1966' in brackets by the company's name, which suggests that it underwent some sort of structural change in that year.  That same issue gives the company's director / studio manager as A.D. Marsh, with the chief engineer being G. Crompton; G. Crompton and B. Marsh are listed as 'mixers'.  DER-1444 has a proper printed label and an address of Eastwood Cove, Dunbartonshire, on the cover, suggesting that by the time of its release - 1978 - the company had moved premises again.  I don't know what the matrix numbers started at - ADM-1 seems a not unreasonable guess - but the highest to which I have seen any reference was DEROY-1486, an album of music played on the Hooghuys Fair Organ, which came out in 1979.  One advert for Deroy's services says that the company cut discs: demo discs - presumably acetates, or cut on blank discs - were available within twenty-four hours, while vinyl pressings took from three to four weeks.  A small advert in 'Studio Sound' magazine of March 1974 claims that discs in quantities of one to twenty could be delivered within four days, while quantities of twenty-five upwards again took three to four weeks.  It would appear that vinyl records - or at least those of which more than twenty-five copies were ordered - were pressed elsewhere: the few that I have seen have had matrix number styles suggestive of British Homophone or (later) RCA products.  Thanks to Jason Mills, Paul Jones and Stephen Small for help with the discography; thanks also to Barry Adcock for supplying the 'Hest Bank Lane' scans.  The few 7" Deroys from the '70s that I have stumbled upon are listed below.  Some have Deroy matrix numbers but catalogue numbers from other labels: see the column on the right, and the corresponding pages.  Needless to say, there are many more gaps than entries.

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Copyright 2008 Robert Lyons.

I have now obtained a record player and i wow

Wow wow

They are playing a full instrumentel version of the beatles track called

When im 64

It is super sound guitar instrumentel on side 2

I gotta say its a pleasure out of the unknown to find this oddity

It must for any beatles collector