Rags

'Recorded and mixed Summer 1979 & Summer 1980.
Piano on B5 recorded at the home of Beatrice Quennell.

This record is based on the score for 'The Song of the Shirt' (1979), a film about the London needlewomen whose sweated labour built the metropolitan garment industry during the mid-nineteenth century. Score commissioned by its directors with funds provided by the Arts Council of Great Britain.

Comes with 20-page booklet containing information and pictures pertinent to the subject matter of the record, along with song lyrics.

Catalog no. on spine: Arc 1.
Catalog no. on back cover: RRF 001.

Back cover says 'Pressed by Samea Records and credits (a=Pete Norman) as 'Cutting engineer', but the runouts indicate a Nimbus pressing, cut by (a=Gerald Reynolds). Some copies can be found with a sticker covering other text on back cover saying 'Cut and pressed by Nimbus.''[discogs]