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A brand new label headed by Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley...which will specialise in unearthing forgotten albums, lost 45s and 78s from the mid 20th century. Croydon Municipal is a label curated by Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley that loves to root through boxes of old 45s and 78s, give them a quick wash, package them together, and make them available again at a nice affordable price. We think of it as a public service. It’s also intended as a way of curating the past, the early years of pop – almost everything is out there and available if you know which dusty rooms to look in, but you have to have the keys. Croydon Municipal is an attempt to make sense of the analogue pop era in a digital world. Cherry Red - 2013

Croydon Municipal was a CD label I ran from 2013 to 2016, when I "rested" it after I began doing re-issues for Ace Records. The idea was that it was an extension of making tapes for people, something I'd been doing since I was 15, when I had started to build up a decent record collection.

Everything on Croydon Municipal was 'public domain', or out of copyright, so all from 1962 or before. Many of the comps were done with the help (and mighty 45 collection) of Martin Green (watch out for our Choctaw Ridge comp on Ace early next year). The catalogue number was based on my home town's postcode; there were meant to be 22 releases, but distributors Cherry Red pulled the plug before we could release Soho Nocturne, or CR9 017. So there are only 21 releases. Bob Stanley - October 2020

	Saint Etienne Presents Songs For A Central Park Picnic Year: 2013 CAT#: CR9001 Barcode: 5 013929 830189 Notes By Bob Stanley, Highgate 2013	Pictures Unboxed	See Pictures For Track Listing

	Dory Langdon - My Heart Is A Hunter Year: 2014 CAT#: CR9002 Barcode: 5 013929 830288 Notes By Bob Stanley, Highgate 2013	Pictures Unboxed Bob's Story	See Pictures For Track Listing

	Sweet 'n' Salty Popcorn Year: 2014 CAT#: CR9003 Barcode: 5 013929 830387 Compiled By Bob Stanley Notes By Bob Stanley, Highgate 2013	Pictures Unboxed	See Pictures For Track Listing

	Corky Hale – Corky Hale Year: 2014 CAT#: CR9004 Barcode: 5 013929 830486 Compiled By Bob Stanley Notes By Bob Stanley, Highgate 2013	Pictures Unboxed Bob's Story	See Pictures For Track Listing

	Mid Century Minx Year: 2014 CAT#: CR9005 Barcode: 5 013929 830585 Compiled By Bob Stanley Notes By Bob Stanley, Highgate 2013	Pictures Unboxed Bob's Story	See Pictures For Track Listing

	Buttermilk Skies - The Hoagy Carmichael Songbook Year: 2014 CAT#: CR9006 Barcode: 5 013929 830684 Compiled By Bob Stanley Notes By Matthew Lees, 2014	Pictures Unboxed	See Pictures For Track Listing

	Soho Blondes & Peeping Toms! Year: 2014 CAT#: CR9007 Barcode: 5 013929 830783 Compiled By Bob Stanley Notes By Bob Stanley, Highgate 2014	Pictures Unboxed	See Pictures For Track Listing

	Popcorn Girls Year: 2014 CAT#: CR9008 Barcode: 5 013929 830882 Compiled By Bob Stanley Notes By Bob Stanley, Highgate 2014	Pictures Unboxed	See Pictures For Track Listing

	Troxy Music Fifties And Sixties Film Themes Year: 2014 CAT#: CR9 009 Barcode: 5 013929 830981 Compiled By Bob Stanley And Martin Green Notes By Bob Stanley, Bradford, Summer 2014	Pictures Unboxed	See Pictures For Track Listing

	Troxy Music Fifties And Sixties Film Themes Screen 2 Year: 2015 CAT#: CR9 010 Barcode: 5 013929 831087 Compiled By Bob Stanley And Martin Green Notes By Martin Green, Camden Heights 2015	Pictures Unboxed	See Pictures For Track Listing

	Such A Much! R&B Girls Of The 50's And 60's Year: 2014 CAT#: CR9011 Barcode: 5 013929 831186 Compiled By Bob Stanley Notes By Bob Stanley, West Yorkshire 2014	Pictures Unboxed	See Pictures For Track Listing

	TV Is The Thing (Fifties And Sixties Television Themes) Year: 2014 CAT#: CR9012 Barcode: 5 013929 831285 Compiled By Bob Stanley And Martin Green Notes By Bob Stanley, West Yorkshire Aug 2014	Pictures Unboxed	See Pictures For Track Listing

	Saint Etienne Presents Songs For A London Winter Year: 2014 CAT#: CR9013 Barcode: 5 013929 831384 Compiled By Bob Stanley, Pete Wiggs and Sarah Cracknell with a sack full of help from Martin Green Notes By Bob Stanley, Highgate, Winter 2014	Pictures Unboxed	See Pictures For Track Listing

	Popcorn Exotica Year: 2015 CAT#: CR9014 Barcode: 5 013929 831483 Compiled By Bob Stanley Notes By Bob Stanley, West Yorkshire 2015	Pictures Unboxed	See Pictures For Track Listing

	All About The Girls (Lost Girl Group Gems Of The 1960s) Year: 2015 CAT#: CR9015 Barcode: 5 013929 831582 Compiled By Bob Stanley And Sheila Burgel Notes By Bob Stanley, West Yorkshire, July 2015	Pictures Unboxed	See Pictures For Track Listing

	Songs For Swinging Ghosts Year: 2015 CAT#: CR9016 Barcode: 5 013929 831681 Compiled By Bob Stanley And Martin Green Notes By Bob Stanley, Highgate, August 2015	Pictures	See Pictures For Track Listing

	Soho Nocturne Year: ???? CAT#: CR9017 Barcode: ????? Cherry Red pulled the plug before Bob/Martin could release	Pictures	Not Released Yet

	Soho Expresso Year: 2016 CAT#: CR9 018 Barcode: 5 013929 831889 Compiled By Bob Stanley And Martin Green Notes By Martin Green, Camden Heights 2016	Pictures Unboxed	See Pictures For Track Listing

	Soho Continental Year: 2016 CAT#: CR9019 Barcode: 5 013929 831988 Compiled By Bob Stanley and Martin Green Notes By Martin Green, Camden Heights 2015	Pictures Unboxed	See Pictures For Track Listing

	Doo Wop Soda Shop Atmospheric & Romantic Harmony Sounds From the 50s and 60s Year: 2016 CAT#: CR9020 Barcode: 5 013929 832084 Compiled By Bob Stanley Notes By Bob Stanley 2016	Pictures Unboxed	See Pictures For Track Listing

	And This Is Me: Britain’s Finest Thespians Sing Year: 2016 CAT#: CR9021 Barcode: 5 013929 832183 Compiled By Bob Stanley Notes By Bob Stanley, West Yorkshire, Summer 2016	Pictures Unboxed	See Pictures For Track Listing

	Girls Gonna Bop: Rockin’ Girls From The Late 50s Year: 2016 CAT#: CR9022 Barcode: 5 013929 832282 Compiled By Bob Stanley Notes By Bob Stanley, West Yorkshire, August 2016	Pictures Unboxed	See Pictures For Track Listing

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