Does anyone know the story behind New London International records? The first number on the label (which has the same logo so it's related to the other ones at least) has a hollywood address and is produced by a Randy Richards but is written by Terry Woodford and George Soule. Even if they had offices in Cali, were all the recordings done in Muscle Shoals? What is the missing number below? Are there any other missing releases?

 

New London International Records 1001 - Joanne Murray - You made your bed / Goodbye again

1002?

New London International Records 1003 - Sam Dees - In my world / long

New London International Records 1004 - Young Divines - I'll show you with love / Deep in your heart

 

 

All of them were recorded in the New London International studio in Birmingham, Alabama, even though the Sam Dee's record doesn't state it on the label.  I do remember someone asking that question when they interviewed him on one of his visits to the UK in the early 90's.  Never seen 1002, but that's not to say it doesn't exist. I thought NLI was a similar to the initial set-up to Malaco, where these were limited releases aimed to get product noticed by larger labels with a national distribution network (Sam Dees, Polydor and Young Divines, Cotillion).  Can't help with the address question, though. 

Edited December 5, 201311 yr by John Reed

Thanks a lot for the info! As far as I know, the only release that actually got picked up was the Young Divines, as Dees' re-recording of the record didn't have much to do with his recording of the earlier version. I didn't notice it before but I just googled and see that Sir Shambling's page mentions the Joanne Murray having been done by Eddie Bradford at Chess.

I think there are 2 singles of the Young Divines on this label, if I am not mistaken.

I previously saw a discography of this label in the Georgia Soul website but now I could not find it in the website.  It is strange.

The person maintains the website is a member of this SS as Agent45 (Brian).  Hope he will find Bob's posting and update the discography and about the label.

hi naoya, thanks for your info. i would be pretty surprised if there were two young divines on this label, are you sure you're not thinking of the note label? thanks.

hi naoya, thanks for your info. i would be pretty surprised if there were two young divines on this label, are you sure you're not thinking of the note label? thanks.

Bob, sorry but I am not sure right now if the another copy on the Note label is the one.