A company with addresses in Dover and London, Double-S Productions seems to have specialized in travelogues - all of its products that I have seen have featured sounds and / or music and commentary from various place, in a gatefold sleeve along with coloured slides. I have only been able to trace one record on the actual Double-S Productions label, the first one shown above; it is a recording of some of the sounds of London, and it is entitled, sensibly enough, 'Sounds Like London'. Its catalogue numbers, PC-067 / PC-068 (one for each side) indicate a Procaudio (q.v.) product, and the style of the matrix numbers suggests that Pye were responsible for the pressing. It can be found in two different varieties - there is also a red-labelled version with black print, with the EP's title in a larger, fancier font and a date of May 1972 on the cover. PC-043 came out on Procaudio in 1970, which gives us a date of c.1971 for 'Sounds Like London'. The other EPs had a reference to Double-S on the sleeves but not on the labels, as exemplified by 'Sounds Like Wales' (PC-057 / 058) (2). 'A Mediaeval Tour' (PC-075 / 076), which featured Bunratty Castle and was intended as a souvenir of that place, had green labels; while 'Shakespeare's Stratford' (PC-073 / 074) had a gold block on a black label. The latter two appear to be from 1972.
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