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These date from the mid-late 1950s and were pressed by Decca UK.
I know nothing mucha bout this label, but from these examples there seem to be three different series:

82000:         Modern Jazz
AF-100:        American popular recordings
SD-80000:  "Authentic Dance Rhythms"

The AF- series at least were also pressed at 45rpm records.


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

Please e-mail me if you have any additions or corrections to this page. My thanks to Albert Pattison for getting me started with this listing.

The following people have also added to this listing: 78Cat, Discogs, Martin Gunton, Adam Miller

Page last updated on: November 04, 2024

Firstly, the 82000- series:

Cat No Matrix No Title Artist
82001 LEF-21
LEF-22		 Blue And Sentimental (Basie, David, Livingston)
Moon Nocturne (Etaion)		 Dizzy Gillespie and his Orchestra
82002 LEF-23
LEF-24		 They Can't Take That Away From Me (George & Ira Gershwin)
Break At The Beginning (Modo)		 Dizzy Gillespie and his Orchestra
82003 LEF-29
LEF-30		 If I Had You (Shapiro, Campbell, Connelly)
The Very Thought Of You (Noble)		 Billy Taylor and his Rhythm
82004 LEF-31
LEF-32		 Frisky (Ellington, Hodges)
Far Away Blues (Ellington, Hodges)		 Johnny Hodges and his Orchestra
82005      
82006      
82007      
82008      
82009      
ED-82010 LEF-145
LEF-148		 Who Is Me (Fats Waller)
Strip Tease (Bernard Pfeiffer)		 Bernard Pfeiffer and his St. Germain-Des-Pres Orchestra
ED-82011 LEF-152
LEF-157		 En Ce Temps-La (Charles Trenet)
Autumn In New York (Vernon Duke)		 Mary Lou Williams and her Rhythm
82012      
82013      
82014      
82015      

Next, the AF-100 series:

Cat No Matrix No Title Artist
AF-101 FD-124
.		 Flirty Gertie
Fire Engine Baby		 The Jiv-A-Tones, with vocal by Dean Stevens
The Jiv-A-Tones
AF-102 FD-132
FD-133		 If I Could Hold You In My Arms
Billy (I Always Dream Of Bill)		 Kathy Linden (with Joe Leahy's Orchestra)
AF-103
AF-104
AF-105 FD-158
FD-159		 You'd Be Surprised
Why, Oh Why		 Kathy Linden (with Joe Leahy's Orchestra)
AF-106
AF-107
AF-108
AF-109 FD-183
FD-184		 Where The Blue Of The Night
What Makes You So Lovely ?		 Tommy Mara (with Joe Leahy's Orchestra)
AF-100
AF-111 FD-176 Just A Sandy Haired Boy Called Sandy Kathy Linden (with Joe Leahy's Orchestra)
AF-112      
AF-113      
AF-114      
AF-115      
AF-116      
AF-117      
AF-118      
AF-119      
AF-120      
AF-121 MO-515
MO-517		 Bonaparte's Retreat
The Kissing Tree		 Billy Grammer
AF-122      
AF-123      
AF-124      
AF-125      
AF-126      
AF-127      
AF-128 MO-542
MO-543		 Willy, Quit Your Playing
It Takes You		 Billy Grammer
AF-129      
AF-130      

Now the SD-80000 series; the earlier issues do not have the SD- prefix on the label: 

Cat No Matrix No Title Artist
80001
80002
80003      
80004 LEF-7
LEF-8		 La Ronde De L'Amour (Love's Roundabout) (Oscar Straus, Ducreux, Purcell)
Sous La Ciel De Paris (Girard, Bruy, Michael)		 Marcel Pagnoul amd his Viennese Waltz Orchestra
80005      
80006      
80007      
80008      
80009      
80010 LEF-19
LEF-20		 Marie S'Promene, samba (Edouard Cheekler)
Monsieur Le Consul a Curiityba (Heyral, Lemarchand, Vimont)		 Henri Rosotti and his Tropical Orchestra
SD-80011 LEF-27
LEF-28		 Abaniquito (Carbele, Escoto)
Cuban Mambo, mambo (Cugat)		 Tito Puente and his Cuban Orchestra
SD-80012 LEF-100 Le Grisbe (Jean Wiener) Eddie Barclay and his Orchestra
SD-80013
SD-80014 LEF-182
LEF-183		 Dream, Dream, Dream, waltz (McHugh)
Reviens (Come Back To Me), waltz (Christine, Fragson)		 Emil Stern and his Music For Dancing
SD-80015      
SD-80016 LEF-186
LEF-187		 Anniversary Song, waltz (Jolson, Chaplin)
Shadow Waltz (Warren, Dubin)		 Marcel Pagnoul and his Orchestra
SD-80017 LEF-92
LEF-188		 Choo-Choo Samba (Godinho, Fishman)
Il A Fallu, Samba (Bruno Coquatrix)		 Henri Rosotti and his Tropical Orchestra
SD-80018      
SD-80019
SD-80020 LEF-63
LEF-68		 Always, waltz
Valser Dans L'Ombre (Auld Lang Syne), waltz		 Marcel Pagnoul and his Orchestra
SD-80021 LEF-178
LEF-179		 Desert Dance, mambo (Mazian)
Mambo La Roca (Sanchez)		 Tito Puente and his Orchestra
SD-80022
SD-80023
SD-80024
SD-80025
SD-80026
SD-80027 Ole Guapa (Malando)
Rodriquez Pina (Greco, Velich)		 Pippo Rancho and his Tango Orchestra
SD-80028 Ce Filon (Maurice Jaillier)
Oui, C'est Samba (Leardee)		 Ernest Leardee and his West Indian Orchestra
SD-80029
SD-80030
SD-80031
SD-80032
SD-80033 LEF-331
LEF-332		 Lullaby Of Birdland (Shearing)
Portugese Washerwomen (Les Lavandiers) (Popp)		 The Blue Stars (vocal group)
SD-80034      
SD-80035      
SD-80036      
SD-80037      
SD-80038      
SD-80039 LEF-343
LEF-344		 The Little Child (Rene Rouzaud, Shoindlin)
Little Street Where Children Play (Raymond Levesque)		 Eddie and Tania Constantine
Eddie Constantine, with orchestra)
SD-80040 MSN-1198
MSN-1199		 The Japanese Farewell Song (Hafegawa Yofhida,  Freddy Morgan)
I Wore Dark Glasses (Freddy Morgan)		 Kay Cee Jones  (recorded by Marquee, New York)
SD-80041      
SD-80042 DT-1867
DT-1868		 Pirate Jenny (Weill, Brecht, Mauprey)
The Threepenny Opera (Moritat) (Weill, Brecht, Mauprey)		 Maria Remusat (in French)
SD-80043      
SD-80044      
SD-80045      
SD-80046 LEF-371
LEF-375		 The Portugese Washerwomen (A. Popp)
Samba Fantastico (J. Toledo, J. Manzon, L. Antouri)		 Eddie Barclay and his Orchestra
SD-80047 LEF-373
LEF-374		 The Street Musician
Ask For Joe		 Emil Stern's Honky Tonk Piano
SD-80048      
SD-80049      
SD-80050