The record label of compilation specialists Multiple Sound Distribution, Warwick spent much of the late '70s and the '80s producing the kind of '20 Golden Hits' albums which are the staple of Charity shops today. Its singles output was much leaner, but the occasional one slipped out. The numbering of these singles was rather strange: for the most part they seem to have been given the same number as the LP from which they were taken, with a slightly altered prefix. Thus Clinton Ford's album, '30 Smash Hits Of The War Years, Volume 2', and the single taken from it, 'Land Of Hope And Glory' (1975), were numbered WW-5006 and WWS-5006 respectively; while Boxcar Willie's LP, 'King Of The Road', and the single taken from it, were numbered WW-5084 and SW-5084. As the vast majority of albums didn't have singles taken from them, this produces huge gaps in the numbering and leaves the amateur researcher without any clue as to how many singles the company released. There seem to have been just two in the 1970s, one of which - Anita Harris's 'The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot' - seems not to have been taken from an album. Warwick started issuing records in 1974; the last 7" of theirs that I have been able to trace was Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney's, 'True Love' (SW-1005), which came out in 1987. The 'discography' below only covers the '70s and 1980.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.