LIFESONG
RECORDS
Independent American label: Lifesong Records
was owned by singers / songwriters / producers Terry Cashman and Tommy West, and
was named after one of the albums they had made as a duo. It operated from
1975 into the early '80s, though its output towards the end was sporadic, and it
was more successful in the States than over here; though Henry Gross (once, with
'Shannon'; 1976) and Dean Friedman (three times, with 'Woman of Mine', 'Lydia',
and 'Lucky Stars'; all 1978) took it into the British Singles Charts, which
isn't a bad hit ratio from nine singles. 'Lucky Stars' in fact got to
No.3. Lifesong was licensed to GTO on these islands, so wherever GTO went
Lifesong went: it started out under the Polydor umbrella, which explains the
injection-moulded label, and moved to CBS in 1978. Its catalogue numbering
series changed in the process, from ELS-45000 (these numbers were those of the
corresponding American issues) and ELS-3500 to LS-400. Distributed By Polydor
and GTO and Pinnacle Records.
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