The second Honey label to surface in the 1970s. This particular Honey would seem to have issued at least eight singles, if the catalogue number of 'I'm Going Back' by Johnny St. Peters - HNY-008 - is anything to go by, but googling only results in one other, Billy Joe Ward's 'Tribute To A King' (HNY-007; 1977), and the others may well not exist. The appearance of the label itself - plain, with the name of the company at the top - is typical of a custom recording or a small independent. The Johnny St. Peters single, which couples an Irish expatriate song with an enthusiastic version of a Rock' n' Roll song called 'The Hucklebuck Is Back', came out in 1978. Lee Lynch wrote and produced that record, and was Billy Joe Ward's manager for some time, which suggests that Honey may have belonged to him. A third Honey label, which was coloured orange-and-white, used COMB-0 catalogue numbers and put records out from 1969 into the early '70s, was from the Irish Republic, and is thus outside the scope of this site.
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