RECORDS
Independent label: Standard Records was a Sub label of Silver Doller Records. It managed one single. The catalogue number belongs to a series used by Silver Dollar, which invites the questions did this EP also come out on Silver Dollar. It issued singles in Silver Doller SDX-3000 numerical series. Silver Doller Records was a London-based Strict Tempo Music label. It seems to have issued its first records in 1960. Its 7" products were EPs, and they were all by bands led by Ernest Wilson. Numbering started off at SD-139, with 'Dancing Time No. 1', and continued in an odd way, with the first number rather than the last changing - the second issue, 'Dancing Time No. 2', was SD-239, and so on. This changed after ten issues, the eleventh being numbered SD-3911. From then on the numbering remained the same, though there were variations in the prefix, which became 'SDX' in or around 1964. An 'SDV' prefix indicated that the EP had vocals on it, while 'SDP' seems to have been kept for records by Ernest Wilson's Pop Sequence All Stars. 1963 saw a separate STEP-4400 series, which was handled by Saga Records. Silver Dollar continued to release records until at least 1971, though the 'Silver Dollar (Northern)' series, which had a different label design and a separate 'SDN' prefix, may be from later. The few examples that I have seen of the Northern EPs have been reissues, some straight, using the new prefix with the old number and having the old date on the label, at least one combining sides from different EPs and combining the old catalogue numbers - SDN-3922-42 has one side from SDX-3922 and one from SDX-3942. There may well be many more issues than the three that I have listed. The sleeve of SDP-3949 states that the record was distributed by BCM/UK of London WC1V 6XX. At least one EP, SDX-3918, appeared on the Standard label, with a Silver Dollar catalogue number; there may well have been others. The discography below contains several conjectures, which are marked as such: the EPs went under the general title of 'Dancing Time', and catalogue numbers usually corresponded with the second half of the catalogue number - for example, 'Dancing Time No. 24' was SDX-3924. However, EPs which had five minutes' worth of continuous music rather than two shorter tracks were given a different numerical series, SDX-x399, where again the first number changed rather than the last - 'Dancing Time No. 27' was SDX-7399, not SDX-3927. The tracks were invariably medleys; because of the restrictions of space, Thank to Robert Lyons for the info.
| 60 | Ernest Wilson Trio | Quickstep blue room | SILVER DOLLER | SD | 139 |
| 60 | Ernest Wilson Trio | Quickstep best things in life are free | SILVER DOLLER | SD | 239 |
| 60 | Ernest Wilson Trio | Dancing time no 3 | SILVER DOLLER | SD | 339 |
| 61 | Ernest Wilson Trio | Quickstep the lady is a tramp | SILVER DOLLER | SD | 439 |
| 61 | Ernest Wilson Trio | Dancing time no 5 | SILVER DOLLER | SD | 539 |
| 61 | Ernest Wilson Trio | Slow foxtrot blue moon | SILVER DOLLER | SD | 639 |
| 61 | Ernest Wilson Trio | Quickstep three little word's | SILVER DOLLER | SD | 739 |
| 61 | Ernest Wilson Trio | Dancing time no 8 | SILVER DOLLER | SD | 839 |
| 61 | Ernest Wilson Trio | Slow foxtrot the very thought of you | SILVER DOLLER | SD | 939 |
| 61 | Ernest Wilson Trio | Dancing time no 10 | SILVER DOLLER | SD | 1039 |
| 61 | Ernest Wilson Trio | Quickstep let yourself go | SILVER DOLLER | SD | 3911 |
| 61 | Ernest Wilson Trio | Waltz dancing with tears in my eyes | SILVER DOLLER | SD | 3912 |
| 61 | Ernest Wilson Trio | The very thought of you slow foxtrot | SILVER DOLLER | SD | 3913 |
| 61 | Ernest Wilson Trio | Dancing time no 14 | SILVER DOLLER | SD | 3914 |
| 61 | Ernest Wilson Trio | Old time waltz nights of gladness | SILVER DOLLER | SD | 3915 |
| 64 | Ernest Wilson Trio | Dancing time no 16 | SILVER DOLLER | SD | 3916 |
| 64 | Ernest Wilson | Dancing time no 17 | SILVER DOLLER | SD | 3917 |
| 65 | Ernest Wilson Trio | Old Time & Modern Sequence No. 3 | STANDARD | SDX | 3918 |
