Dingle's Records

Dingles was a Folk Music label from Edgware, Middlesex, UK. According to 'Music Week' of the 8th of December 1979 Roger Holt was the company's chairman and Helen Holt its secretary, while Royer Slater, David Foister and Alan Morrow were co-directors. Their label was founded by the Holts and Royer Slater, and was named after the Holts' folk club in London. It issued its first record in 1976, a various artists album entitled 'Dingle's Regatta' (DIN-301), and it concentrated on LPs for the first three years of its existence. The unlikely success of the undeniably catchy 'Daytrip to Bangor' b/w 'The Flash Lad' by Fiddlers Dram (SID-211; 11/79) seems to have prompted Dingles to turn its attention to singles as well, and and over the course of the next eleven years at least twenty-four more of them were issued, in a numerical series starting at SID-221. Most disappeared without leaving much trace but one of them hit the Charts, Tony Capstick's 'The Sheffield Grinder', which was successful largely on the strength of its other 'A' side, the humorous 'Capstick Comes Home' (SID-227; 3/81).