ARGO & ARGO TRANSACORD
RECORDS

Independent label: Argo Records was a record label founded in 1951 by Harley Usill (born in 1925 - died 1991), Cash flow problems in 1957 meant that the company only survived by being taken over by British Decca, although Usill remained in charge and the company was able to maintain autonomy from the parent company. A series of actuality recordings of steam locomotives (then in the early stages of being phased out in the UK) was masterminded by the film sound recordist/mixer Peter Handford, selling up to 30-40,000 copies per year under the name Transacord. The EAF / ZFA series was shared with other Argo releases in the '60s; EAFs were mono recordings, ZFAs stereo.  Some '60s Argo EPs were issued in both forms, with the same number but different prefixes.  Transacord spent some time as part of the Academy Sound and Vision group; it survives to this day, as SPV/Transacord, and is still issuing train records. Manufactured And Distributed By Decca Records. Argo Records Former Address 113-115 Fulham Road London S.W.3. Argo Transacord in 1961 to 1980, was a Sub-Label of the Argo label formed by an agreement between Argo and Transacord Ltd and backed by Decca, devoted to field recordings of railway engines. Early releases were re-cut Transacord Ltd LP's.

   
 
60 King'S College Choir Vaughan Williams    Three ARGO EAF 1
60 Denis Noble The Beggar S Opera ARGO EAF 2
60 Dorothy Parker Dorothy Parker   14 Poems ARGO EAF 3
60 George Guest Bach  Jesu Joy Of Man'S Desiring  ARGO EAF 4
60 Denis Noble Amy Woodforde ARGO EAF 5
60 Not Traced ARGO EAF 6
60 Denis Noble Songs Of Eric Coates ARGO EAF 7
60 Ely Cathedral Choristers Anon.  Misa Cum Jubilo ARGO EAF 8
60 Edric Connor Edric Connor ARGO EAF 9
60 Not Traced ARGO EAF 10
60 Kings College Choir Carols From Kings ARGO EAF 11
60 Not Traced ARGO EAF 12
60 John Betjeman The Dear Old Village ARGO EAF 13
60 Temperance Seven Plus One Eton Boating Song ARGO EAF 14
60 Robert Speaight Belloc Four Sussex Poems ARGO EAF 15
60 Jacobean Ensemble Purcell  Golden Sonata ARGO EAF 16
60 N0T Traced ARGO EAF 17
61 John Hahessy Songs From Friday Afternoons ARGO EAF 18
61 Gordon Heath And Lee Payant The Boll Weevil ARGO EAF 19
61 Choir Of King'S College, Cambridge The First Nowell ARGO EAF 20
61 Not Traced ARGO EAF 21
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61 Not Traced ARGO EAF 27
61 Choir Of King?S College, Cambridge Croft ? Burial Service ARGO EAF 28
62 Royal Shakespeare Company The Hollow Crown  ARGO EAF 29
62 Not Traced ARGO EAF 30
62 Kings College Choir Hymns For Passiontide ARGO EAF 31
62 Kings College Choir Evening Hymns ARGO EAF 32
62 No Artist Gresley Pacifics ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 33
62 No Artist N7 On The Jazz ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 34
62 No Artist South Eastern Steam ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 35
62 No Artist Narrow Gauge On The Costa Brava ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 36
62 No Artist The Dukedogs And The City ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 37
62 No Artist Steam Traction Engines ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 38
62 No Artist Jeanie Deans And Oxford ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 39
62 Royal Shakespeare Company Whiting ? Scenes From The Devils ARGO EAF 40
62 Royal Shakespeare Company Scenes From As You Like It ARGO EAF 41
62 Not Traced ARGO EAF 42
62 No Artist At Wadebridge And Templton Stations ARGO EAF 43
63 Various Artists Love Poems 1600-1700 ARGO EAF 44
63 Various Artists Love Poems 1600-1700 ARGO EAF 45
63 Various Artists Animal Poems ARGO EAF 46
63 Simon Preston Franck ? Prelude, Fugue And Variation ARGO EAF 47
63 Donald Swann Lord Of The Dance ARGO EAF 48
63 Donald Swann Festival Matins ARGO ZFA 49
63 King?S College Choir The Infant King ARGO EAF 50
63 Not Traced ARGO EAF 51
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63 Not Traced ARGO EAF 54
63 Not Traced ARGO EAF 55
63 Alastair Roberts Hear My Prayer ARGO EAF 56
63 Not Traced ARGO EAF 57
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63 No Artist On The Aberdeen Flyer ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 59
63 Not Traced ARGO EAF 60
63 Not Traced ARGO EAF 61
63 Not Traced ARGO EAF 62
63 T.H. White White ? Sword In The Stone ARGO EAF 63
63 Various Artists  Carroll ? Alice In Wonderland ARGO EAF 64
63 Various Artists  Carroll ? Alice In Wonderland ARGO EAF 65
63 Various Artists  Carroll ? Alice In Wonderland ARGO EAF 66
63 Not Traced ARGO EAF 67
64 Simon Preston Toccata From Symphony No. 5 For Organ ARGO EAF 68
64 Not Traced ARGO EAF 69
64 No Artist Hunts, Shires & Sandringhams ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 70
64 No Artist G5S On The Push And Pull ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 71
64 No Artist The 11.15 For Torpantau ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 72
64 No Artist With 'The Mail' To Aviemore  ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 73
64 No Artist Caledonian Express ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 74
64 No Artist A Transacord Recording On The Footplate Of A 'King'  ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 75
64 No Artist The Southern ?Schools? ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 76
64 No Artist Flying Scotsman At Aylesbury And Brackley ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 77
64 No Artist The Glenfield Goods ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 78
64 No Artist The Snowdon Mountain Railway ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 79
64 No Artist Great Northern Engines ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 80
64 No Artist Granges And Manors ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 81
64 No Artist The Atlantics And The Terrier ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 82
64 No Artist North Eastern Engines ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 83
64 No Artist A Transacord Recording - Castles In The Chilterns ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 84
64 Elizabethan Singers Britten ? Ballad Of Little Musgrave ARGO EAF 85
65 No Artist Grantham - 1957  ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 86
65 No Artist Bullied Pacifics ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 87
65 Handford Peter  On Board The Aberdeen Flyer ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 88
65 Various Artists Poems Of Summer And Winter  ARGO EAF 89
65 Various Artists Poems Of The Sea ARGO EAF 90
65 Various Artists Love Poems (1789-1914) ARGO EAF 91
65 Michael Garrick Quintet Anthem ARGO EAF 92
65 Not Traced ARGO EAF 93
65 Not Traced ARGO EAF 94
65 Not Traced ARGO EAF 95
65 Not Traced ARGO EAF 96
65 No Artist Trains On The Narrow Gauge ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 97
65 No Artist D For Diesels ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 98
65 No Artist L.N.W. Engines ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 99
65 No Artist Two Castles From Plymouth ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 100
65 Rowland/Shaw/Rimmer/Blades Songs For Children ARGO AFW 101
65 Rowland/Shaw/Rimmer/Blades Songs For Children ARGO AFW 102
65 Rowland/Shaw/Rimmer/Blades Songs For Children ARGO AFW 103
65 Various Artists Poems Of Nature ARGO AFW 104
65 Various Artists Poems Of Time And Mortality ARGO AFW 105
65 Various Artists Poems Of Voyaging And Discovery ARGO AFW 106
65 Various Artists Poems Of Sleep And Dreams ARGO AFW 107
65 Various Artists Poems Of Childhood ARGO AFW 108
65 Various Artists Poems Of London ARGO AFW 109
65 Pat Shaw/Esme Lewis Twelve Days Of Christmas ARGO AFW 110
65 King?S College Choir Miserere ARGO AFW 111
65 Not Traced ARGO AFW 112
65 Not Traced ARGO AFW 113
65 Not Traced ARGO AFW 114
65 Not Traced ARGO AFW 115
65 Michael Garrick Quintet October Woman ARGO AFW 116
66 No Artist Trains In Trouble  ARGO TRANSACORD AFW 117
66 No Artist Engines On The Continent ARGO TRANSACORD AFW 118
66 No Artist The Sounds Of Shunting  ARGO TRANSACORD AFW 119
66 King?S College Choir Stanford/Hadley/Batten ARGO AFW 120
66 No Artist Tramway Sounds  ARGO TRANSACORD AFW 121
66 Not Traced ARGO AFW 122
66 King?S College Choir The Three Kings And Other Carols ARGO AFW 123
66 No Artist At Ryde Esplanade Station ARGO TRANSACORD AFW 124
66 No Artist Change At Templecombe ARGO TRANSACORD AFW 125
66 No Artist The Highlanders ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 126
66 No Artist Midland Engines ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 127
66 No Artist Panniers And Prairies ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 128
67 No Artist Royal Scots And Jubilees  ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 129
67 No Artist This Is York ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 130
67 No Artist Trains From Tyne Dock ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 131
67 No Artist The Britannias And The Clans ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 132
67 Not Traced ARGO EAF 133
67 Aeolian String Quartet Maw ? String Quartet No 1 ARGO EAF 134
67 No Artist Southern Engines ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 135
67 No Artist Double Headed ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 136
67 No Artist Kings In The Chilterns ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 137
67 No Artist On A Banker From Beattock ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 138
67 No Artist Mixed Train To Rosporden ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 139
68 No Artist Industrial Engines ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 140
68 No Artist The ?W.D.S? ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 141
68 No Artist The London Tram Vol. 1 ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 142
68 No Artist The London Tram Vo1. 2 ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 143
68 No Artist Exhibitionist Engines ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 144
69 No Artist L.N.E.R. Pacifics ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 145
69 No Artist The Sounds Of Bressingham ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 146
69 Not Traced ARGO EAF 147
69 No Artist North British Engines ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 148
69 No Artist Steam In The Worth Valley ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 149
70 No Artist The Halls  ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 150
70 No Artist Worth Valley Engines ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 151
71 Clun Castle And Kolhapur  Castle Class And Jubilee Class Steam Engines ARGO TRANSACORD EAF 152
72 Handford Peter  Talyllyn Trains ARGO TRANSACORD ZFA 153
72 No Artist Sounds Of The Festiniog ARGO TRANSACORD ZFA 154



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