The first was issued in 1971: Worlds Within Worlds, EMI Columbia (SCX6463) and included Part I - Integration 2; Part II - The Human Element.
On 25 February 1936, he recorded four songs for the Columbia Graphophone Company in Sydney, Australia.
The outfit signed with Decca Records, releasing a solitary 45rpm single that year before switching to EMI's Columbia label.
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In March 1931 Electrola, along with its parent label and Carl Lindström Company parent Columbia Graphophone Company, merged to form the Electric & Musical Industries Ltd. (EMI).
Coates made a number of 78 rpm recordings of his music, initially for The British Columbia label and then for Decca Records (released in the U.S. on the London Records label).
He started writing songs with Barry Mason, and his second solo single "Super Girl", issued on the Columbia label, reached no.19 on the UK singles chart in 1966.
In 1930, British Columbia Graphophone Company and Gramophone Company, which a year later merged to form EMI Group, formed a partnership along with Greek investor Lambropoulos Brothers Limited to produce records in Greece.
Renowned locally as "the Gower Nightingale", he reached a national audience in his seventies with recordings for Columbia and the BBC and an appearance on the BBC radio programme In Town Tonight.