(Midland Sound Recordings)
RECORDS
The record label(s) of Midland Sound Recordings, of Balsall Common, Warwickshire - it seems to have started off as plain Midland Sound Recordings and become MSR 1973. The Midland Sound studio made many acetates and demos for local bands; it also issued records on its own label from around the mid '60s and throughout the 1970s, presumably as a custom recording service. Albums and singles seem to have shared the same catalogue series. MID-1345 appeared in 1967, and MID-1367 in 1971, suggesting that the series started at 1300,1965. By 1974 the prefix had changed and the numbers had reached MSRS-1400 - it would appear that the MSRS prefix was retained for albums. The label seems to have averaged roughly ten issues a year, which is hardly prolific. The material on offer seems to have been the usual mixture that custom recording operations provided - the few items to which I have seen reference have been Folk, Choral and Pop LPs, though there were at least three singles: Thanks To Robert Lyons for the info.
