FRANCIS HOUSE DAY NURSERY
I
filed this under 'Poplets' at first but that's most likely the title of the record rather than
the label, so on reflection I've decided to credit the Francis House Day Nursery
of Paddington, who were responsible for the record - they are credited on the
labels and their address can just about be seen, rubber stamped, on
the sleeve. The nursery's only release was an EP of very short songs for children,
written by Winifred Williams and sung by Barry
Alexander, who wrote most of the music for them; I assume that Barry also
provided the accompaniment, which consists of a sole acoustic guitar. It's actually rather
appealing in a simple 'Now We Are Six' kind of way. The
catalogue number, CP-2599, indicates a Decca custom pressing (see the Decca
Custom Pressing page). There's no year on the label but happily there
was one on CPX-2606: it was 1972, which means that we can date this to
1971-72 with a degree of confidence. The scan has been doctored to replace
a missing centre.
Copyright 2015 Robert Lyons.