Some people, perhaps most people, think that every bit of music ever recorded is now available ‘on the internet’. This is very far from the case. Entire catalogues from independent labels going back a century or more have fallen into limbo, because the owner/estate has disappeared or because there are ownership disputes between various parties, or because a small label was bought by a bigger label and then a bigger one again to the point that Warners, Sony and Universal (the Big 3) now own huge tracts of music that they don’t know they own or have no interest in ever reviving. And so on. The bijou Collector label, run by Charing Cross retailer Colin Pomroy – in parallel to his Jazz Collector label – between 1959-64 is one such body of work that has fallen into limbo. Pomroy disappeared from the scene amid vague talk of financial problems in the mid 60s and last turns up in a bit of court reportage in Middlesex in 1967 about drink driving.
I think the odd track from the many English, Irish and Scottish folk/trad recordings he issued has been discretely used (taken from disc, most likely) on this or that » Continue Reading.
