MOONEY'S



A mystery.  All I know about the Mooney's label is what can be gleaned from the label itself: it issued at least one single, 'The Men Behind The Bar', by Arthur Porter & The Powers, in 1972.  The catalogue number of that single was, somewhat idiosyncratically, 'PINT ONE'; as yet I haven't been able to discover if they got any more PINTs in, but I would doubt it.  You would imagine that a label called 'Mooney's' would be Irish in origin, and on the 'A' side the band sound like Irish Folkies with a drummer, but it was English - the single was listed in the trade paper 'Music Week' among the releases for August 5th.  A word of caution: my copy had lost its push-out centre, so I've used a paint programme to 'replace' it in the scan.




Copyright 2008 Robert Lyons.