Cream Records (2)

Label from Manchester UK, set up Edwin James Balbier (Pennsylvania, USA) owner of Global Records of Manchester, who eventually returned to the USA in Denver before his death in 2018 The label ran for just two years (1976-77) and was most notable for the release of James Fountain's Seven Day Lover, a very controversial record back then. It had the distinction of being the most expensive Northern Soul scene record ever when a dealer/collector bought it for £150 on it's original Peachtree label. A month later, it came out on Cream for 50p. This happened a lot in the 1970's Eddie Carlton and The Jaywalkers came from the US Swan label (as did two singles released a couple of years previously by Global, The Spy by Guys From Uncle and Never Too Young by The Modern Redcaps, both issued on a lookalike UK Swan label). Note the previously unreleased instrumental version of Sheila Ferguson's Heartbroken Memories on the flip of The Jaywalkers single. It is believed that the vocal had not yet been discovered at that time The Johnny Jones single was issued simultaneously by both Cream and Brunswick, with Cream being forced to withdraw their version as Brunswick were the true copyright holders. The Four Perfections classic I'm Not Strong Enough featured a previously unreleased instrumental version on it's B side.