A record collector buys a curious vinyl impulse purchase - Christ Liveth In Me by the Toftwood Male Voice Choir - and turns the sleeve notes into a miniature detective case. The record’s cover photo and sparse credits become clues: the pianist’s full name, Miss Christine Cooper; a distinctive green stained-glass cross; a list of choir members given only as initials; and a production credit for Whitehouse Recording Studio. Mapping tools confirm the church and its window still exist, and archival digging uncovers a local radio interview and a photographer, Ron Newell, linked by style to other local work. Attempts to coax information from the church and local sources yield few answers.
Deeper probing identifies the SRT label’s catalogue connections and a Discogs thread that dates the pressing to around 1979-80, but biographical leads mostly peter out. A potential choir member, Kenny Austin, is located but not approached out of sensitivity; Miss Cooper was contacted via a choir website and acknowledged but returned no follow-up. The eBay seller reveals the collection came from his late father, removing a likely oral-history source. Only two copies have surfaced online, the collector has yet to play the record, and the story ends unresolved - an affectionate, curious investigation into an obscure local pressing that remains tantalizingly incomplete.
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