Pye (UK) Album Discography: Top Brass

The Pye Records Top Brass series was a vehicle for albums of bands showcasing various trumpet and other brass instruments, which debuted in 1975 and was discontinued after the label was rebranded to PRT in 1980.

The albums used a silver label with black print with the Top Brass logo next to Pye’s, which made them look like promotional albums.

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TB 3001 — Brass International — Band of Yorkshire Imperial Metals [1975] Valdres March/Concorde/Frolic for Trombones/Yesterday/Night on Bare Mountain//If I Were King/Malaguena/Eye Level/Post-Horn Galop/MacArthur Park

TB 3002 — Viva Desford — Desford Colliery Band [1975] Entry of the Gladiators/A Walk in the Sun/Old Rustic Bridge/Mood Indigo/Viva Espana//Stars and Stripes Forever/The Titlarks/Moonlight Serenade/St. Louis Blues/Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines/Ritual Fire Dance/Can Can/Men of Harlech

TB 3003 — Music from Vale Royal (Cheshire) — Besses o’ th’ Barn Band & Northwich and District Festival Choir [1975] Hymn to Music/Beautiful Dreamer/Lucky for SOme/Speed You Journey (My Thoughts and My Longings)/Black Velvet/Old Mother Hubbard/Non Nobis, Domine//Concerto Grosso/O Lovely Heart/The Girl with the Buckles on Her Shoes/L’il Liza Jane/Sanctuary of the Heart/Trottin’ to the Fair/How Great Thou Art

TB 3004 — National Brass Band Festival: Royal Albert Hall, 1975 — Various Artists [1975] This album was released with quadrophonic sound. Colditz March — Combined Bands of Brighouse and Rastrick Band, Cory Ban, Fairey Band and Yorkshire Imperial Metals Band/Belle Of The Ball — Combined Bands of Brighouse and Rastrick Band, Cory Ban, Fairey Band and Yorkshire Imperial Metals Band/Rhapsody For Trombone And Brass Band — Cory Band/Intermezzo From Cavalleria Rusticana — Cory Band//Concorde March — Combined Bands of Brighouse and Rastrick Band, Cory Ban, Fairey Band and Yorkshire Imperial Metals Band/Westminster Waltz — Combined Bands of Brighouse and Rastrick Band, Cory Ban, Fairey Band and Yorkshire Imperial Metals Band/Overture Tombstone-Arizona — Combined Bands of Brighouse and Rastrick Band, Cory Ban, Fairey Band and Yorkshire Imperial Metals Band/The Girl With The Flaxen Hair — Combined Bands of Brighouse and Rastrick Band, Cory Ban, Fairey Band and Yorkshire Imperial Metals Band/The Trojans — Combined Bands of Brighouse and Rastrick Band, Cory Ban, Fairey Band and Yorkshire Imperial Metals Band

TBX 3005 — Clayhanger — Royal Doulton Band [1976] Theme From ‘Clayhanger’/The Falcons/To A Wild Rose/Trumpets Wild/March Of The Toys/Instant Concert//Pendine March/The Rosary/The Entertainer/Work Song/Paint Your Wagon Selection

TB 3006 — Ernest Woodhouse Conducts The Burton Constructional (Newhall) Band — Burton Constructional (Newhall) Band [1976] Australasian/The Girl I Left Behind Me/The Star (Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star)/Jolson Memories: Swanee-Caroline In The Morning-Chinatown My Chinatown-There’s A Rainbow ‘Round My Shoulder’-Pretty Baby-Toot Toot Tootsie (Goo’bye)-Waiting For The Robert E. Lee-My Mammy/La Mantella/The Elephant/Silver Threads Amongst The Gold/Mancini Magic: Moon River-(I Love You And) Don’t You Forget It/Prelude And Fugue/Hasta La Vista

TB 3007 — Sovereign Brass — Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band [1976] Holiday Overture/Concerto For Horn/Shrewsbury Fair/Star Of Erin/Venamair/King Lear/Judex

TBX 3008 — Superstar Brass — Yorkshire Imperial Band [25–01–76] Florentiner March/El Cumbanchero/Holiday for Trombones/Summertime/The Silken Ladder//Procession Of The Sardar/The Typewriter/Largo Al Factotum/Godspell-Jesus Christ Superstar Medley

TB 3009 — Cornish Festival Brand — St. Denis Band, Conducted by E.J. Williams [1976] Restormel/Golden Rain/Cornish Rock/Cornish Festival Overture//Centaur/To A Wild Rose/Frolic For Trombones/Angel Voices/From The New World

TBX 3010 — Concert Parade: Military Band and Orchestra — Band of the Corps of Royal Engineers (Chatham) [1976] March: The Liberty Bell/Clarinet Escapade/Waltzing With Lehar/Cool Breeze/Country And Western/Concert March: March Of The Pacemakers//Radetsky March/Fiesta/The Song From Moulin Rouge: Where Is Your Heart/Trumpet Tune & Air/Begin The Beguine/Jesus Christ Superstar

TB 3011 — The Hendon Way — Hendon Band [1976] The Cossack/The Entertainer/Acupulco 1922/Over the Rainbow/Rejoicings From “Music for the Royal Fireworks”/Allegro: 1st Movement of Bassoon Concerto (K. 191)/Goodnight//The Quest/Little Star/Eye Level/Berceuse de Jocelyn/When the Saints Go Marching In/Still as the Night/Espana

TB 3012 — English Brass — Besses O’ Th’ Barn Band [1976] Moorside Suite/A Dales Suite//The Downland Suite/Solitude

TB 3013 — Christmas Festival For Band and Choir — Black Dyke Mills Band and Bradford Choral Society [1968] Christians Awake/Hail Smiling Morn/Jesu, Joy Of Man’s Desiring/A Children’s Overture/Hawaiian Lullaby/Ding, Dong Merrily On High//Christmas Festival Overture/See Amid The Winter Snow/Cowboy Carol/Hark The Herald Angels Sing/O Little Town Of Bethlehem/Hallelujah Chorus

TB 3014 — Brass Aria — Royal Doulton Band Conducted by Edward Gray [1977] The Duchess Of Duke Street/Queens Own/Aria/Bal Masque/Harry James Concerto For Trumpet/Magic Flute Overture//Jaws/Carnival In Paris/Autumn Song/Trumpet Piece/Mood Indigo/La Reine De Saba

TB 3015 — The Standard of St. George — Royal Doulton Band [1978] Star Wars/Who Pays The Ferryman/Sunshine Of Your Smile/Devil’s Gallop/Smoke Gets In Your Eyes/French Comedy Overture//The Standard Of St. George/Bassomatic/Snowy White Polka/My Old Kentucky Home/Serenity/Sousarama

TB 3016 — English Brass (Volume 2) — Besses O’ Th’ Barn Band [1978] “Severn” Suite, Op. 87/Canzon Duodecimi Toni/Variations for Brass Band/Chromascope

TB 3017 — Patrick Moore Played By The Ever Ready (G.B.) Band — Ever Ready (G.B.) Band [1979] March Of The Centaurs/Ariadne (From Theseus)/Penguin Parade/Triumphal March: Entrance Of Theseus//King Neptune/Sunrise Polka/Intermezzo (From Theseus And Andromeda)/Vienna Clouds/The Herald

TB 3018 — Voices & Brass: A Winter Celebration — Cwmbrian Male Choir and Lewis Merthyr Band [1979] Fantasia On Welsh Hymn Tunes/Silent Night (Cornet Solo)/A Christmas Medley/A Christmas Fantasy//Laudamus/Alleluia (Cornet Solo)/When A Child Is Born/O Praise The Lord With One Consent/Christmas Swing Along/A Christmas Overture

TB 3019 — The City of Coventry Band in a Celebration of its 40th Anniversary — City of Coventry Band [1980] Fest Musik Der Stadt Wien/The Watermill/Mexican March/The Lark In The Clear Air/Gopak/Symphonic Study For Brass: The Line Of Life//Blaze Of Light/The Swan/March Of The Toys/Adagio (From Concierto De Aranjuez)/Solveig’s Song-Anitra’s Dance/Toccata Marziale

TB 3020 — Cambridge Band — Cambridge Band [1979] Entry Of The Gladiators/Where E’er You Walk-Euphonium Solo/Processional March/Meditation, In The Cloisters/Holiday Overture//Paso Doble, El Matador/Waltz, Memories Of Schubert/Prelude, La Traviata/A Trumpet Piece-Cornet Solo/Coppeilia

TB 3021 — A Tribute To Eric Ball — G.U.S. Band [1980] Symphonic March: October Festival/Free Fantasia/Symphonic Suite for Brass Band: Festival Music//Festival Prelude from Fantasia: Celebration/Fantasy: The English Maiden/Spring Humoreske from Three Songs Without Words/Tone Poem: Resurgam (I Shall Rise Again)

TB 3022 — A Concert Programme — Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band [1980] March-Mephistopheles/Finale “Faust”/Theme From “Love Story”/Carnival De Venice/Beat Number-Troublemaker/Procession Of The Nobles/Folk Tune-Hava Nagila/Concerto For French Horn And Brass Band/Slavonic Dance №8

TB 3023 — Cory Band — Cory Band [1980] The Flight to Madrid/Alfie/Rondo Rotondo/Elegy (from A Downland Suite)/Concerto For 8b Cornet//Bubbling Brass/The Swan/Main Street/Promenade/January 9th From Symphony No: 11

TB 3024 — The Voices and Brass of Wales — Tredegar Orpheus Male Voice Choir and Lewis Merthyr Brass Band [1980] March Of The Peers from ‘Iolanthe’/Air From Suite In D/Prisoners Chorus from ‘Fidelio’/Salamanca/Cymru Fach (Little Wales)/Dance Of The Tumblers//Battle Hymn Of The Republic/Castell Caerfilli/Spanish Eyes/The Lords Prayer/Close Thine Eyes/Danse Of The Russian Soldiers/The Joy Of The Hunter from ‘Der Frieschutz’/Llanfair

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