RECORDS
EMI Custom Pressing is a description rather than a label name, as the words do not appear on any of the EMI custom pressings that I have seen. As the scans indicate, the labels on the records varied widely. Promotional pressings for different companies, such as Yardleys and BOAC, had their own distinctive labels, which, in the few examples that I have seen, seem to have been related to the product that the company was trying to promote; the King Brothers EP shown was made for Tupperware and had that company's logo on it. Other records, intended presumably for resale rather than for use as promotional tools, had a plain-looking black label. The EMI-style matrix number of the Noel Rawsthorne EP, 'At The Organ Of Liverpool Cathedral' - '7TYEB 95' - is a clue to its origin, as is that of the Clarendon Sound single 'Catari Catari'; the labels have an EMI-ish appearance, too. The King Brothers EP has a matrix number from the same series, '7TEB 71', which is the only sign that the three records are related. The '7T' part indicates a 7" EP, and the 'Y' shows that the record is stereophonic; presumably the 'EB' was used for private pressings. Two separate sets of catalogue numbers used, 7ES-00 until 1967 and SLE-00 (S/SLE or SSLE for stereo pressings) from then till 1972. From 1973 until at least 1976 an occasional series of records in an SECW-1000 numerical series) appeared, pressed by EMI and blessed with the same lack of identification, other than the name of the business which they were promoting (if there was one). There was also a separate ECW-1000 series. These SECW and ECW numbers appear to have replaced the SLE / SSLE-00s. The numbers suggest that there should be a lot more EMI custom pressings out there than the ones listed in the discography below - which only covers the 'S/SLES' records, the quantities pressed were doubtless small. The earliest EMI custom pressing that I have seen, S/SLES 1, was from 1965. In 1974 EMI was to stop doing custom pressing because of the shortage of vinyl, but it seems to have started again in the following year. The actual pressing was not always done by EMI: the Women's RAF EP shown has a British Homophone type of matrix number in the run-off - perhaps EMI's own presses were fully occupied at the time and the record was farmed out to that company. See also the 'Cyanamid' and 'CIBA' labels.
| 65 | No Artist Listed | Demonstration Record For The HMV Stereomaster | HIS MASTER'S VOICE | S/SLES | 1 |
| 65 | Not Traced | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | SLE | 2 | |
| 66 | No Artist Listed | Sampler Record | HIS MASTER'S VOICE | S/SLES | 3 |
| 66 | Not Traced | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | SLE | 4 | |
| 66 | Not Traced | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | SLE | 5 | |
| 66 | No Artist Listed | Demonstration Record For The HMV Stereomaster | HIS MASTER'S VOICE | S/SLES | 6 |
| 67 | Not Traced | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | SLE | 7 | |
| 67 | Rolf Harris | BOAC Pacific Panorama | BOAC | SSLE | 8 |
| 67 | Not Traced | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | SLE | 9 | |
| 67 | Dave Smith | Lover Like You | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | SLE | 10 |
| 67 | Church Of The Holy Trinity, Stratford-Upon-Avon | The Bells. Grandsire Caters | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | SLE | 11 |
| 67 | The Zowlas | Honest i Do / I'm gonna love my baby | AMUSICON | SLE | 12 |
| 67 | Various Artists | Song For Island Holidays | BOAC | SSLE | 13 |
| 68 | Herman's Hermits | The London Look | YARDLEY | SLE | 14 |
| 68 | Herman's Hermits | The London Look | YARDLEY | SLE | 15 |
| 68 | Not Traced | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | SLE | 16 | |
| 68 | Not Traced | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | SLE | 17 | |
| 68 | Not Traced | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | SLE | 18 | |
| 68 | Samantha Jones | Ford Leads The Way / Go Ahead | FORD | SLE | 19 |
| 67 | Various Artists | Islands In The Sun | BOAC | SSLE | 20 |
| 68 | Kyu Sakamoto | Let's Not Say 'Sayonara' | BOAC | SSLE | 21 |
| 68 | Sue And Sunny | Big Bush Sound / It's A Bush Over-Ture | BUSH SOUND | SSLE | 22 |
| 69 | Not Traced | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | SLE | 23 | |
| 69 | Not Traced | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | SLE | 24 | |
| 69 | Not Traced | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | SLE | 25 | |
| 69 | Not Traced | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | SLE | 26 | |
| 70 | The Clarendon Sound | Old Shep | CLARENDON SOUND | SSLE | 27 |
| 70 | The Clarendon Sound | Catari Catari | CLARENDON SOUND | SLE | 28 |
| 70 | The Clarendon Sound | She Taught Me How To Yodel | CLARENDON SOUND | SLE | 29 |
| 70 | The Clarendon Sound | Mexicali Rose | CLARENDON SOUND | SLE | 30 |
| 70 | Tony Beamish | Wild And Beautiful | BOAC | SLE | 31 |
| 70 | Not Traced | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | SLE | 32 | |
| 70 | Not Traced | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | SLE | 33 | |
| 70 | Not Traced | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | SLE | 34 | |
| 60 | Carl Dolmetsch, Joseph Saxby | Music For Recorder And Harpsichord | ARNOLD DOLMETSCH LTD | SLE | 35 |
| 61 | The Dolmetsch Consort | Recorder Consorts | ARNOLD DOLMETSCH LTD | SLE | 36 |
| 64 | Carl Dolmetsch, Joseph Saxby | Play It Yourself - No. 3 - The Descant Recorder | ARNOLD DOLMETSCH LTD | SLE | 37 |
| 64 | Carl Dolmetsch, Joseph Saxby | Play It Yourself - No. 4 - The Descant Recorder | ARNOLD DOLMETSCH LTD | SLE | 38 |
| 70 | Not Traced | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | SLE | 39 | |
| 70 | Not Traced | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | SLE | 40 | |
| 70 | Not Traced | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | SLE | 41 | |
| 70 | Not Traced | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | SLE | 42 | |
| 70 | Not Traced | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | SLE | 43 | |
| 71 | Noel Rawsthorne | At The Organ Of Liverpool Cathedral | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | SSLE | 44 |
| 71 | No Artist Listed | The Southern Sound / The Other Sound | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | SLE | 45 |
| 71 | Not Traced | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | SLE | 46 | |
| 71 | Geraldine [Weightcheckers] | Exercise Routine With Geraldine | WEIGHTCHECKERS | SLE | 47 |
| 71 | Not Traced | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | SLE | 48 | |
| 71 | Not Traced | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | SLE | 49 | |
| 72 | Alison, Ann, Ken, Blue And Taff | Songs From The Old Barn At Trewan Hall | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | SLE | 50 |
| 72 | Not Traced | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | SLE | 51 | |
| 72 | Not Traced | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | SLE | 52 | |
| 72 | Denis Norden | MMA Presentations Ltd With Compliments | MMA | SSLE | 53 |
| 72 | Dr. Bruce Fowler | The Elusive Diagnosis, Potassium Deficiency | CIBA | SSLE | 54 |
| 72 | Central Band Of The Women's Royal Air Force | Farewell | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | SSLE | 55 |
| 72 | Not Traced | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | SLE | 56 | |
| 72 | Donna Fargo | 3 Million Sellers | DOT | SSLE | 57 |
| 60s | No Artist Listed | Pitman's Gramophone Course Of Typewriter Keyboard Instruction - Record 1 | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | B | 760 |
| 60s | No Artist Listed | Pitman's Gramophone Course Of Typewriter Keyboard Instruction - Record 2 | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | B | 761 |
| 60s | No Artist Listed | Pitman's Gramophone Course Of Typewriter Keyboard Instruction - Record 3 | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | B | 762 |
| 60s | No Artist Listed | Pitman's Gramophone Course Of Typewriter Keyboard Instruction - Record 4 | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | B | 763 |
| 60s | No Artist Listed | Pitman's Gramophone Course Of Typewriter Keyboard Instruction - Record 5 | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | B | 764 |
| 60s | No Artist Listed | Pitman's Gramophone Course Of Typewriter Keyboard Instruction - Record 6 | EMI [CUSTOM PRESSING) | B | 765 |
