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Penny Farthing Records was a British

Larry Page as a progression from his mildly successful 1960s record label, Page One Records. The label signed some artists of note. It released a number of hit songs, including "Venus" by Shocking Blue, "Beautiful Sunday" by Daniel Boone, "Blue Is the Colour" by the Chelsea football team, and "Sleepy Shores" by the Johnny Pearson and His Orchestra.[1]

History

Page first founded Page One Records with Dick James in 1966, but left the company in 1969 to start a new label. He bought the name of another company Penny Farthing to use it for his label, and located the headquarters on Tilney Street.[1]

Penny Farthing Records had its first success with their second single released in 1969, which was "Venus" by the Dutch group, Shocking Blue.[1]

In 1970, Penny Farthing Records released the single, "Sister Simon (Funny Man)" PEN 738, by the UK group Heatwave

Jimmy Young and Radio 1 Club shows.[3] In 1970, Killing Floor's second album, Out of Uranus, was released on Penny Farthing Records.[4]

The former Honeybus bassist, Colin Hare, released an album March Hare on Penny Farthing in 1971, which was not a commercial success. It was re-released through Hare's own Runfast label in 2004.

BBC TV's Top of the Pops
.

In 1971, Larry Page also signed up

UK Singles Chart for Penny Farthing in 1971,[5]
and an album of the same name was released the following year.

Page also recorded

records had some UK chart success. However, Page's attempts to turn them into a mainstream pop group failed. He eventually resorted to the flop "The Ballad of Frank Spencer
". Even his attempt to record them under another name – Philly Dog – did not produce the desired hits.

Paul Da Vinci, the voice on The Rubettes hit "Sugar Baby Love", turned to Penny Farthing immediately after this song made the UK no. 1 slot. The resulting "Your Baby Ain't Your Baby Anymore" sold modestly.

Beach Boys hit "Good Vibrations" with Reg Presley
's vocals, did not produce sizeable sales.

Penny Farthing also recorded an early album by Raymond Froggatt. However, most of the company's revenue was gained from Germany, where their solo artist signing Kincade had a number of minor hits, including "Dreams Are 10 A Penny", "Big Hand For Annie" written by John Carter. Carter, writing under a number of different names, also had hits with Penny Farthing in the early 1970s.

Page formed Rampage Records as a successor for Penny Farthing in 1978.

See also

  • List of record labels

References

  1. ^ a b c "Ride High with Penny Farthing". Billboard. 11 November 1972. pp. 51–64.
  2. ^ "Words-and-Music". Words-and-music.webstarts.com. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
  3. ^ "BBC Radio 1 Shows - Radio 1 Club". Radio Rewind. 3 June 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
  4. ^ Bryan Thomas. "Killing Floor | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
  5. ISBN 1-904994-10-5
    .
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