Get it on with Studio One!

I find 43 Studio One albums listed on Discogs. I must admit that I haven't heard every single one of them, but I have most of the best ones in my collection and have secured high quality vinyl rips of most of the others. I had initially planned only one "best of Studio One" comp, but there are so many equally good tunes on those LPs that I had to ask the master planner himself to extend it to three volumes. Permission was granted. 

Studio One was more of a catalog series than a real label. It was owned by Sonoton (founded in 1965), who also had several other library labels under their umbrella, managed by Berry Music, most notably the Conroy and Programme Production series. The big boss was Gerhard Narholz, an Austrian all-round conductor and composer. Berry had offices in London, but most of the music on Studio One was recorded in Germany by German or Austrian musicians, probably in Trixi Tonstudio in Munich, where the sound engineer Willi Schmidt was an expert in giving it the "fat German sound", as I call it. 

Gerhard Narholz himself composed many tunes for the Studio One series. He used several pseudonyms: Sammy Burdson, Tony Tape, Otto Sieben, Walt Rockman, Mac Prindy, Norman Candler… Other prominent names on Studio One were Hans Ehrlinger (trombone man, aka Juan Erlando when he went latin), Fritz Maldener (aka Maurice Pop and Shorty Malden) and Hammond man Kai Rautenberg. Almost all the Studio One tunes contain a combination of jazzy elements, much brass, occasionally strings, partly old school and partly new beats and soul or rock-based easy-cheesy listening.