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Eboracum was the Roman name for the garrison at York, so not surprisingly, this society was based there. The Eboracum Record Society is thought to have been formed in the mid-1940s specifically to record the organ in York Minster. However, the records such as the one seen here are understood to date from the 1950s and it may be that they were pressed by EMI.
The 10" discs had an E-100 catalogue series and 12" were in the E-500 range, but it is not known how many different ones were issued.
The organist and composer, Francis Jackson, who is the performer on some of the records, was the incumbant organist at York Minster at the time.
All the records were recorded in York Minster.

Thanks to Bill Dean-Myatt for providing the label image.

My thanks to Albert Pattison for the vast majority of the information for this listing.                                 Please e-mail me if you have any additions or corrections to this page.

Page last updated on: July 23, 2023

First, the 10" series

Cat No Matrix No Title Artist
E-100      
E-101 0EB-1106
0EB-1107		 The Toy Drum Major
Charmaine		 Eric Norris (electronic organ)
E-102 0EB-1246
0EB-1247		 Impromptu For Organ, part 1 (Francis Jackson)
Impromptu For Organ, part 2 (Francis Jackson)		 Francis Jackson (organ) (recorded in York Minster)
E-103
E-104
E-105 O-595
O-596		 Tom Jones, finale, act two, part 1
Tom Jones, finale, act two, part 2		 York Amateur Operatic And Dramatic Society (radio relay)
E-106
E-107
E-108 WBS-0167
WBS-0168		 Fanfare (Jackson) / Scherzo (Whitlock)
Sketch (Schumann)		 Francis Jackson (organ) (recorded in York Minster)
E-109 WBS-0169
WBS-0170		 Divertissment (Vierne)
Scherzetto (Vierne)		 Francis Jackson (organ) (recorded in York Minster)
E-110      

Now the 12" series.

Cat No Matrix No Title Artist
E-500      
E-501 WBS-0148/1
WBS-0149/1		 Come Holy Ghost (Attwood)
Tell Me Lovely Shepherd (Boyce, arr. Poston)		 Stanley R. Dearlove (with J. Rothera, G. Palmer, T.Moore) (David Cutter, organ)
Stanley R. Dearlove (with piano accmp by Francis Jackson)
E-502
E-503 WBS-0173/1
WBS-0174/1		 Sonata in A Major, Op. 65, No. 1, part 1 (Mendelssohn)
Sonata in A Major, Op. 65, No. 1, part 2 (Mendelssohn)		 Francis Jackson (organ)
E-504 WBS-0176/1
WBS-1077/1		 Final, part 1 (Cesar Franck)
Final, part 2 (Cesar Franck)		 Francis Jackson (organ)
E-505 WBS-0180
WBS-0181		 I Know That My Redeemer Liveth, part 1 ("The Messiah" - Handel)
I Know That My Redeemer Liveth, part 2 ("The Messiah" - Handel)		 Beverley Jones (tenor, with organ accmp by Francis Jackson)
E-506
E-507      
E-508      
E-509      
E-510