One of several labels which specialized in providing records for ballroom dancing, Je Mar Sequence Records was based in Pudsey, Leeds, as the company sleeve helpfully tells us. It was a vehicle for the music of Geoff Heald, who also distributed the records; they were numbered in a GH-100 series and there were at least eighteen of them. EPs and LPs shared the same GH-100 numerical series. There are no dates on the first seven EPs but the sleeve notes to one of the two albums state that Je Mar started up in 1974. GH-118, which came out in 1979 and was made through SRT, seems to have been the last in the series. Early and late Je Mar EPs had paper labels in various colours, including black-on-yellow and black-on-orange as well as the ones shown; middle-era ones were injection moulded and were pressed by Phonodisc - they too came in different colours, as can be seen. Additional distribution was provided by Northern Dance Services - see 'NDS'. Thanks to Sporidium of the 45cat site for the first scan, to Robert Bowes for the fifth, and to Sam Mauger for the eighth.
Copyright 2007 Robert Lyons.