RECORDS
Independent label: Founded by Mike Vernon & Neil Vernon mail order label Purdah Records, which released just four 7" singles; including "Flapjacks" by Stone's Masonry (featuring Martin Stone, later to join Savoy Brown and Mighty Baby); and another by John Mayall and Eric Clapton "Bernard Jenkins", and "Lonely Years". Only 99 copies of each are thought to have been pressed - limited originally to avoid purchase tax - although it has also been said that the number was as high as 500. Purdah, along with sister imprint Outasite Records, was an offshoot of the mid-1960s Blue Horizon label. The label's early recordings were pressed and marketed in limited quantities and sold through the Vernon brother's Blue Horizon Newsletter. Unlike gospel label Wheel Records, which never got off the ground, the 1966 launch of Purdah opened the door for parent label Blue Horizon's Autumn 1967 distribution deal with CBS. Manufactured And Distributed By CBS Records. Former Address: 3B Godstone Road Kenley, Greater London.
