Fiona Bentley Productions

Production company formed within the World Record Club to create, supervise and handle their own recordings, largely for the Children's Record Guild Of Australia. Recordings were ultimately licensed to other labels. Along similar lines, the slightly later F.C.M. Productions was associated with recordings for the Light Music Club. The company is still in existence, with Fiona Bentley's daughter handling its recordings (the logo at left is the current one, and didn't appear on their releases at the time). From "Pied Piper", the magazine of Children's Record Guild Of Australia, in 1959: "Many of the recordings to be offered by Children's Record Guild are made for you by a special production unit centred on London, and headed by brilliant young Creative Director, Fiona Bentley. Fiona Bentley Productions, as it is called, has for many months been working in close association with World Record Club in preparation for the launching of Children's Record Guild... Records...are completely original... Guild records have to be scripted by F.B.P. writers - that is, the narrative and song lyrics have to be written; frequently, special music has to be specially composed, and arranged and scored for orchestra of the size required."