BDM-Award records were based in Newcastle; at 100, Westgate Road, to be precise. The Brewer Brothers single pictured above, 'Serenade For Two Lovers' (BDMA-27) dates from November 1977, and is the only example of the Award label that I've ever happened upon in the flesh, but Robert Bowes has been kind enough to supply a scan of an earlier Award single, BDMA-21, 'The Drinking Song', by Robert Barton (BDMA-21; 11/75). I suppose the company may perhaps have issued BDMA-22 to BDMA-26 between those two, but if it did I've never seen sign of them, nor indeed of any numbers prior to 21; which leads me to wonder if the two records shown above may be the sum total of BDM-Award's contribution to the 7" singles catalogue. Pressing was by Lyntone, the matrix numbers being LYN-3240 for the Barton single and LYN-4589 for the Brewer Brothers. Distribution was by Lugton.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.