A label from Northern Ireland. Derry seems to have operated from c.1973 until at least 1989, but it doesn't appear to have been all that prolific on the singles front, as googling turned up only two of them. The earliest was 'London's Derry' b/w 'Man From The Daily Mail' by The Blackthorn (JAN-3072; 1973), the Wolfhound record shown above, 'Provie Lullaby' b/w 'My Mary Of The Curling Hair' (JAN-3074; 1973), was the other. I would imagine that there are others which haven't surfaced as yet, JAN-3073 being the obvious gap. Presumably the catalogue number of the Blackthorn record commemorates 'Bloody Sunday', the date of which was January 30th 1972. That particular single was pressed in the Repblic of Ireland, according to its label. Albums were mostly numbered in a DBL / SDBL-500 series; the highest that google revealed was SDBL-527. The material on Derry appears to have been traditional Irish Folk, of a Republican nature. Reportedly the label was set up in an atmosphere of secrecy after the owner of Outlet Records (q.v.) was gunned down by Loyalists in 1973 for issuing records of that nature.
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