Trunk Records
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Trunk Records is a British independent record label, which specialises mainly in lost film scores, unreleased TV music, library music, sexploitation and kitsch releases. It was founded in 1995 by Jonny Trunk (born Jonathan Benton-Hughes) and has since gained a cult following as a result of the releases of material from scores for cult films such as Deep Throat, Kes, The Wicker Man, Blood on Satan's Claw and George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead. Other releases include soundtracks for cult UK Television series such as The Tomorrow People, UFO, Bod and Vernon Elliott's score for Clangers and Ivor the Engine. As well as film music and jazz, the label has also brought to public attention the lost or unreleased works of Tristram Cary and BBC Radiophonic Workshop's John Baker.
History
Initially, the label was set up as a means to release material from the Bosworth Library archive, the oldest existing music library. Since then, the label has adhered to its mantra of "Music, nostalgia and sex", and established itself as a label popular amongst cult film and TV fans as well as record collectors. It has also become infamous for its records associated with the 1960s and 1970s soft pornography such as the soundtrack to Deep Throat, Flexi-Sex (a compilation of flexi-discs from 1970s British magazines), Mary Millington Talks Dirty and Dirty Fan Male, an album based on Jonny Trunk's own experiences organising various glamour models' fan clubs including that of his sister, Eve Vorley.[1] The album contained amusing recitals of the fan mail they received, and was later turned into a live show and a book. Jonny Trunk has also released his own material through the label, including his album, The Inside Outside. Since 2003, Trunk has also championed the work of Basil Kirchin, by releasing his unknown 1960s experimental jazz and soundtrack work.
Various Jonny Trunk side projects have included directing the now banned pop video, "Plug Me In", for Add N To (X). This video was shot in Wales, and was edited as the standard pop version and a longer, far more controversial Add N To XXX 45 minute version. Trunk has also held modern music and movement classes for children using vintage electronic recordings, issued official Tony Hart Vision On tee shirts and screenprints, ran action painting sessions to Ken Nordine's colours, and regularly finds music for advertising, film and TV. He also writes for The Daily Mail, and has a column in Mojo exploring the world of bizarre and esoteirc recordings. He has DJed across Surrey, though with limited success. Jonny Trunk is also a regular broadcaster on London's art radio station Resonance FM. His show "OST" has concentrated on film music, TV music, library music and related recordings.
Harper Collins published the Jonny Trunk book Dirty Fan Male in 2004. It subsequently became a Channel 4 documentary. Working with art publishers FUEL Design, Jonny Trunk published the world's only book dedicated to the graphic art of production library music. This book, known as The Music Library, was the first book to bring to the public the hidden art and design of vintage library recordings. This was followed up, in late 2010, with the world's first overview of the life and early publishing work of John Sutcliffe, the underground leather couturier who started AtomAge.
"The Ladies' Bras", a single by Trunk and Wisbey, made number 70 on the UK Singles Chart in August 2007, and re-entered at number 27 in September 2007 after a campaign by BBC Radio 1's Scott Mills. At 36 seconds long, it is the shortest track ever to chart in the top 30.[2]
Discography
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- [BARKED 1P/1LP] Various - The Super Sounds of Bosworth
- [BARKED 2LP/2CD] Various - The Super Sounds of Bosworth, Volume Two
- [BARKED 3LP/3CD] Various - The Battle of Bosworth
- [BARKED 4P/4LP/4CD] Paul Giovanni & Magnet - The Wicker Man
- [JBH01] Syd Dale - "Theme to Screen Test (Marching There and Back)"
- [SOUP 001LP/001CD] Vernon Elliott - Clangers : Original Television Music
- [TTT001] Jonny Trunk & Slide - "The Snow It Melts The Soonest"
- [TTT002] Jonny Trunk - "Sister Woo"/"Mr Hand"
- [KES001LP/001CD] John Cameron - Kes Original Soundtrack
- [B01] Mary Millington - Mary Millington Talks Dirty
- [XXX1LP/1CD] Various - Deep Throat Original Movie Soundtrack
- [SEC 001LP/001CD] Various - Resurrection: The Amplified Bible of Heavenly Grooves
- [WWW1/DFM001LP/001CD] Trunk & Wisbey - Dirty Fan Male
- [TTT0003/0003CD] Transcargo - Oh Boy
- [JBH 002CD/002LP] John Cameron - Psychomania Original Soundtrack
- [JBH 003CD] Basil Kirchin - Quantum
- [TTT0004] Jonny Trunk - "Dead Soon"
- [JBH004CD/004LP] Various - Flexi-Sex
- [JBH005CD/005LP] Basil Kirchin - Charcoal Sketches/States of Mind
- [JBH 0007CD] Transcargo - idleluxury
- [JBH008CD/008LP] Jonny Trunk - The Inside Outside
- [JBH 010LP] Various - UFO
- [JBH011CD/011LP] Various - Dawn of the Dead: The Unreleased Incidental Music
- [JBH012CD/012LP] Basil Kirchin - Abstraction of the Industrial North
- [JBH014CD/014LP] Desmond Leslie - Music of the Future
- [JBH015CD] Trunk & Wisbey - Dirty Fan Male (New & Improved)
- [JBH016CD/016LP/PD] Derek Griffiths & John Le Mesurier - Bod: Words & Music
- [JBH017LP/017CD] Delia Derbyshire, Dudley Simpson, Brian Hodgson & David Vorhaus - The Tomorrow People Original Television Music
- [JBH018LP/018CD] Various - Fuzzy Felt Folk
- [JBH019LP/019CD] Mike Sammes & The Mike Sammes Singers - Music for Biscuits
- [JBH020LP/020CD] Sven Libaek - Inner Space
- [JBH021LP/021CD] Basil Kirchin - Particles
- [JBH022LP/022CD] Michael Garrick Trio - Moonscape
- [JBH023LP/023CD] Marc Wilkinson - Blood on Satan's Claw
- [JBH024CD] Various - Now We Are Ten
- [JBH025CD/025LP] Jonathan Klein, Herbie Hancock, Thad Jones, Ron Carter and Grady Tate - Hear O Israel
- [JBH026LP] Various - Mike Taylor Remembered
- [JBH027LP/027CD] The Vernon Elliott Ensemble - Ivor the Engine (with music from Pogles' Wood)
- [JBH028CD] John Baker - The John Baker Tapes Volume 1
- [JBH029CD] John Baker - The John Baker Tapes Volume 2
- [JBH030LP] John Baker - The John Baker Tapes
- [JBH031CD] Ted Taylor, Tubby Hayes and The Mike Sammes Singers - Hymns A' Swinging
- [JBH032LP/032CD] Various - G-Spots. The electro jazz folk horror world of Studio G
- [TTT005] Tubby Hayes - Voodoo Session
- [JBH033LP/033CD] Jonny Trunk - Scrap Book
- [JBH034LP/034CD] Edward Williams - Life on Earth - Music from the 1979 BBC TV series
- [JBH035LP/035CD] It's Time for Tristram Cary
- [JBH036LP/036CD] Moondog and Suncat Suites by Kenny Graham and His Satellites
- [JBH037CD] Leona Anderson - Music to Suffer By (Remastered)
- [TTT006] The Jellies - Jive Baby on a Saturday Night
- [JBH038CD/038LP] Basil Kirchin - Soundtrack to Primitive London / Freelance
- [RSD001LP] Basil Kirchin - Soundtrack to The Shuttered Room, one off test pressing for Record Store Day
- [MK100EP] Yuri Gagarin - Yuri Gagarin: Conquest of Space
Jonny Trunk bibliography
- Dirty Fan Male, Harper Collins. ISBN 9780007207725[3]
- The Music Library, FUEL, ISBN 0955006112[4]
- Dressing For Pleasure, FUEL, ISBN 9780956356239[5]