As the label indicates, Spedeworth was - and indeed still is - in the business of promoting stock car race meetings. Orchestra leader Eric Winstone was inspired to write 'The Formula ll March' for the company after a visit to one of its meetings in late 1966; it was released in 1967 on his International Dance Records label, with a version of 'A Swingin' Safari' as the 'B' side (UPC 45-3609). The pairing seems to have proven popular enough to deserve reissuing, this time as a one-off on Spedeworth's own label. There's no date on the label but according to the 45cat site the reissue took place in 1976, which sounds reasonable. Pressing was by Decca. As for the music, on the sleeve notes to the original single Eric Winstone himself described the March as '...another March Of The Mods', which sums it up pretty well.
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