Founded by Peter Pinne (President), Bayview Records was based in Los Angeles (USA) as a boutique recording label specialising in show music. The company produced both CD re-isuues of previous cast recordings (from Brodway, the West End and Australia) as well as new works. The Bayview catalogue also includes solo recordings by top musical theatre performers, notably Sally Mayes and Geraldine Turner. Among the Broadway recordings are 18 albums from the New York Town Hall's popular concert series Broadway by the Year and Broadway Unplugged. The London cast recordings include four Lionel Bart musicals Lock Up Your Daughters, Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be, Maggie May and La Strada. along with West End productions of Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, Noel Cowards Ace of Clubs, Ivor Novello's Gay's the Word and Sandy Wilson's Call it Love. Among the Australian musicals and cast recordings re-issued have been Lola Montez, Only Heaven Knows, Hair and a compilation, Musicals From the Land of Oz. One of the company's releases, All The Colours of the Rainbow, containing 14 new versions of songs from a selection of the Pinne and Battye children's musicals (1973-1980), was named as one of the top ten show tune released in the USA in 2000.
In late 2007 Pinne sold his interests in Bayview to the US company Original Cast Records (based in Georgetown).
