GALLIARD

 

A Folk label, from Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.  Galliard started issuing records in 1969; it managed more than twenty issues before expiring, which it appears to have done c.1975.  Most of its records were albums but there was at least four singles among them.  The single shown above on the right was spilt between Geordie's Penkers ('The Iron Road') and Mike Donald (Land Of The Pennine God'); it had a catalogue number of GALL-4023 and it was released in 1975 to mark the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Stockton & Darlington railway.  Albums and singles alike were numbered in the GAL-4000s.  The few 7" records that I have managed to track down are listed below.  The Tristram Cary reportedly has an instrumental piece for flute and two tape recorders on one side and an avant garde electronic piece on the other, which is unusual.

Copyright 2008 Robert Lyons.