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10 Rathbone Place W1

Staff Listing

Doug and Gladys Dobell

Counter and Other Staff including mail order and accounts:

Ray Bolden - 75 Charing X Mick Brocking – 77 Toby Calder - Tower St Chris Cambridge - 77 Mick Carroll – 77 Bill Colyer - Brighton/77/ Rathbone - Peter Crumpton – 77 Dave Davies - 77 George Ellis – 77 Les Fancourt - 75/Tower - Gerry Finningley 77 George Foster – 75 Tony Gordon – Rathbone Dick Gough – 77 Ron Gould - Rathbone/75 - Brian Harvey – 77 Denis Hill – 77 Gerry Ingram – 77 John Jack – 77 Colin Jones – 77 John Kendall – 77 Ken Lindsay - 77 Frank Liniger - 77/Tower Alf Lumby – 77 Charlie McIvor – 77 Tony Middleton - 77/Tower Mick Moffett - 75/Tower - Les Muscutt – 77 Graeme Osborne – Tower Brian Peerless - 77/Tower Chris Pratt – 77 Trevor Salter – 77 Keith Shadwick – Tower Don Sollash - Brighton/77/Tower - George Tyler – 77 George Wilkins – 75 Johnny Winterbourne – 77

Administration/Secretarial:
Pat Buttimer, Julia Doig, Eileen Finningley, Monica Sollash, Judy Wurr

School Helper
Martin Colyer

Doug Dobell had another shop at 10 Rathbone Place, where the mail order business was run from.
The shop was Dobells Folk and Blues Shop from (about) 1961 to 1965 I was the manager of the shop,
Bill Colyer ran the mail order dept. We also were the wholesalers for, Riverside, Blue Note, Folklore, 77, Prestige and Electra among others. One of our first sales reps was Graham Bond. I wrote many sleeve notes for Doug's own labels, and was present at all his recording sessions including the famous Richard farina, Rik Von Schmitt and Blind Boy Grunt session, you can hear my dulcet tones on all of the choruses. Fascinating and wonderful times. rongould

Comment
From about March to April, 1965, I actually worked as front salesman in the Rathbone Place shop. I knew nothing about white folk music and got some puzzled looks when I always referred to "Bobbie" Dylan the folkies obviously thought I had some sort of insider knowledge to refer to the great man in this way. Doug was a very kind man, but Bill Colyer in the back room tried to have a go at me about not changing the display window! The rest of the guys were great to me as they realised I had quite a few trad jazz connections such as Hugh Rainey, my old mucker from the Queen Mary College jazz Band of 1955. We were allowed to take l.ps home to record on tape as long as they were back on the shelves the next day- this way I amassed a huge collection of open reel tapes covering Coltrane, Mingus etc. I was always busy and one of the big problems was keeping an eye on the West Indian fans who used to nick the album covers to decorate their pads.
Happy days!
Name
Derek (Norrie or Del) Paramor
(2021)

Les Fancourt

http://www.bluesandrhythm.co.uk/british-blues-discography-1950s-1970/


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10 Rathbone Place W1T 1HP Soho / London

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