EAF, ZFA series – mono and stereo EPs (1960-1974)
Argo issued its first EPs in 1960 – the year the first EP entered our family home (Cliff’s Silver Discs, a joint Christmas present to us four kids from our parents).
The Argo EPs ended up being a vehicle mainly for the steam train recordings of Peter Handsford, whose label Transacord was acquired by Argo in 1961. Transacord sound of steam LPs ended up being issued on various other Argo series – DA, ZDA, ZTR – and the Decca/Argo SPA series.
In the list below the Transacord recordings are colour-coded red, the classical recordings green, spoken word yellow, and the smallish rag bag including jazz and folk white.
The EAF issues were all mono, ZFA were stereo.
| ARGO No | PERFORMER | TITLE | YEAR |
| EAF 1 ZFA 1 |
King’s College Choir, Cambridge, dir David Willcocks | Vaughan Williams – Three Shakespeare Songs/The Turtle Dove/Two Elizabethan part songs |
1960 |
| EAF 2 | Noble/Prieto et al/Argo Chamber Ensemble | Gay – The Beggar’s Opera- extracts | 1960 |
| EAF 3 | Dorothy Parker | Dorothy Parker – 14 poems | 1960 |
| EAF 4 | George Guest/ St John’s College Choir |
Bach – Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring Goldschmidt – A Tender Shoot |
1960 |
| EAF 5 | Denis Noble | Amy Woodforde-Finden – Four Indian Love Lyrics | 1960 |
| EAF 7 | Denis Noble | Songs of Eric Coates | 1960 |
| EAF 8 ZFA 8 |
Ely Cathedral Choristers | Anon. – Misa cum jubilo Byrd – An earthly tree Lallouette – O mysterium Jeremiah – solo treble |
1960 |
| EAF 9 | Edric Connor & The Southlanders | Songs from Trinidad | 1960 |
| EAF 10 | |||
| EAF 11 ZFA 11 |
Kings College Choir, Cambridge | Carols from Kings | 1960 |
| EAF 12 | |||
| EAF 13 | John Betjeman | Betjeman – The Dear Old Village/ Our Padre/Indoor Games Near Newbury/How to get on in Society |
1960 |
| EAF 14 | The Temperance Seven | Seven Inch Record | 1960 |
| EAF 15 | Robert Speaight | Belloc – Four Sussex Poems | 1960 |
| EAF 16 | Jacobean Ensemble | Purcell – Golden Sonata/Fantasia, three parts on a ground | 1960 |
| EAF 18 ZFA 18 |
John Hahessy/Benjamin Britten | Songs from Friday Afternoons | 1961 |
| EAF 19 | Gordon Heath and Lee Payant | The Boll Weevil | 1961 |
| EAF 20 ZFA 20 |
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge | The First Nowell | 1961 |
| EAF 28 ZFA 28 |
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge | Croft – Burial Service | |
| EAF 29 | Royal Shakespeare Company | The Hollow Crown – A scene and three songs | 1962 |
| EAF 31 ZFA 31 |
Kings College Choir | Hymns for Passiontide | |
| EAF 32 ZFA 32 |
Kings College Choir | Evening Hymns | |
| EAF 33 | Gresley Pacifics | 1961 | |
| EAF 34 | N7 On The Jazz | ||
| EAF 35 | South Eastern Steam | ||
| EAF 36 | Narrow Gauge On The Costa Brava | ||
| EAF 37 | The Dukedogs And The City | ||
| EAF 38 | Steam Traction Engines | ||
| EAF 39 | Jeanie Deans And Oxford | 1962 | |
| EAF 40 | Royal Shakespeare Company, w Dorothy Tutin & Richard Johnson | Whiting – Scenes from The Devils | 1962 |
| EAF 41 | Royal Shakespeare Company | Scenes from As You Like It/The Taming of the Shrew | |
| EAF 43 | South Western Steam | ||
| EAF 44 | Various Artists (Church/Godfrey/Orr/Watson) | Love Poems 1600-1700 | 1963 |
| EAF 45 | Various Artists (Church/Godfrey/Orr/Watson) | Love Poems 1600-1700 | 1963 |
| EAF 46 | Various Artists (Church/Orr/Watson) | Animal Poems | 1963 |
| EAF 47 ZFA 47 |
Simon Preston | Franck – Prelude, fugue and variation | 1963 |
| EAF 48 | Donald Swann | Songs of Faith and Doubt/Friday Morning | |
| EAF 49 | Donald Swann | Festival Matins | 1963 |
| EAF 50 ZFA 50 |
King’s College Choir | The Infant King | 1963 |
| EAF 56 | Alastair Roberts (St John’s College Cambridge Choir) | Hear my Prayer/O for the Wings of a Dove | |
| EAF 59 | On The Aberdeen Flyer | ||
| EAF 63 | T.H. White | White – Sword in the Stone, music Britten | 1963 |
| EAF 64 | Various Artists | Carroll – Alice in Wonderland (scenes) | 1965? |
| EAF 65 | Various Artists | Carroll – Alice in Wonderland (scenes) | 1965? |
| EAF 66 | Various Artists | Carroll – Alice Through the looking Glass (scenes) | 1965? |
| EAF 68 | Simon Preston Choir of Westminster Abbey |
Widor – Organ Toccata I Was Glad They Said Unto Me |
1964 |
| EAF 70 | Hunts, Shires & Sandringhams | ||
| EAF 71 | G5s On The Push And Pull | ||
| EAF 72 | The 11.15 For Torpantau | ||
| EAF 73 | With ‘The Mail’ to Aviemore | 1963 | |
| EAF 74 | Caledonian Engines | ||
| EAF 75 | On the Footplate of a ‘King’ | 1963 | |
| EAF 76 | The Southern ‘Schools’ | ||
| EAF 77 ZFA 77 |
Pacific Power | 1964 | |
| EAF 78 | The Glenfield Goods | 1964 | |
| EAF 79 | The Snowdon Mountain Railway | 1964 | |
| EAF 80 | Great Northern Engines | 1964 | |
| EAF 81 | Granges and Manors | 1964 | |
| EAF 82 | The Atlantics and The Terrier | 1964 | |
| EAF 83 | North Eastern Engines | 1964 | |
| EAF 84 | Castles in The Chilterns | 1964 | |
| EAF 85 ZFA 85 |
Elizabethan Singers/Halsey/ Parry | Britten – Ballad of Little Musgrave/Five Flower Songs/Gloriana/Six Part Songs/O Can Ye Sew Cushions & The Sally Gardens | July 1965 |
| EAF 86 | Grantham, 1957 | ||
| EAF 87 | Bullied Pacifics | ||
| EAF 88 | Stanier Pacifics | 1965 | |
| EAF 89 | Various Artists | Poems of Summer and Winter | |
| EAF 90 | Various Artists | Poems of the Sea | |
| EAF 91 | Various Artists | Love Poems (1789-1914) | |
| EAF 92 ZFA 92 |
Michael Garrick Quintet | Anthem/Wedding Hymn | 1965 |
| EAF 97 | Trains on The Narrow Gauge | ||
| EAF 98 | D for Diesels | ||
| EAF 99 | L.N.W. Engines | ||
| EAF 100 | Two Castles From Plymouth | 1965 | |
| EAF 101 ZFA 101 |
Rowland/Shaw/Rimmer/Blades | Songs for Children | 1965 |
| EAF 102 ZFA 102 |
Rowland/Shaw/Rimmer/Blades | Songs for Children | 1965 |
| EAF 103 ZFA 103 |
Rowland/Shaw/Rimmer/Blades | Songs for Children | 1965 |
| EAF 104 | Various Artists | Poems of Nature | 1965 |
| EAF 105 | Various Artists | Poems of Time and Mortality | 1965 |
| EAF 106 | Various Artists | Poems of Voyaging and Discovery | 1965 |
| EAF 107 | Various Artists | Poems of Sleep and Dreams | 1965 |
| EAF 108 | Various Artists | Poems of Childhood | 1965 |
| EAF 109 | Various Artists | Poems of London | 1965 |
| EAF 110 | Pat Shaw/Esme Lewis | Twelve Days of Christmas | 1964 |
| ZFA 111 | KIng’s College Choir | Miserere | 1964 |
| EAF 115 | Michael Garrick Quintet | October Woman | 1965 |
| EAF 116 | Great Central Engines | ||
| EAF 117 | Trains in Trouble | 1966 | |
| EAF 118 | Engines on the Continent | ||
| EAF 119 | The Sounds of Shunting | ||
| EAF 120 | KIng’s College Choir | Stanford/Hadley/Batten | |
| EAF 121 | Tramway Sounds | 1966 | |
| EAF 123 | King’s College Choir | The Three Kings and Other Carols | |
| EAF 124 | The ‘O.2.’ Tanks | 1966 | |
| EAF 125 | Change at Templecombe | 1966 | |
| EAF 126 | The Highlanders | 1967 | |
| EAF 127 | Midland Engines | 1967 | |
| EAF 128 | Panniers and Prairies | 1967 | |
| EAF 129 | Royal Scots And Jubilees | 1967 | |
| EAF 130 | This Is York | 1967 | |
| EAF 131 | Trains From Tyne Dock | 1967 | |
| EAF 132 | The Britannias And The Clans | 1967 | |
| EAF 134 ZFA 134 |
Aeolian String Quartet | Maw – String Quartet No 1 Wood – String Quartet No 1 |
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| EAF 135 | Southern Engines | 1968 | |
| EAF 136 | Double Headed | 1968 | |
| EAF 137 | Kings In The Chilterns | 1968 | |
| EAF 138 | On A Banker From Beattock | 1968 | |
| EAF 139 | Mixed Train To Rosporden | 1968 | |
| EAF 140 | Industrial Engines | 1968 | |
| EAF 141 | The ‘W.D.s’ | 1968 | |
| EAF 142 | The London Tram Vol. 1 | 1968 | |
| EAF 143 | The London Tram Vo1. 2 | 1968 | |
| EAF 144 | Exhibitionist Engines | 1968 | |
| EAF 145 | L.N.E.R. Pacifics | 1969 | |
| EAF 146 | The Sounds Of Bressingham | 1969 | |
| EAF 148 | North British Engines | ||
| EAF 149 | Steam In The Worth Valley | ||
| EAF 150 | The Halls | 1970 | |
| EAF 151 | Worth Valley Engines | ||
| EAF 152 | Clun Castle And Kolhapur | 1971 | |
| ZFA 153 | Talyllyn Trains | ||
| ZFA 154 | Sounds of The Festiniog | 1974 |
