RECORDS
Independent label: Happy Face Records operated from the same address as Birds Nest Records. The Old Smithy, Post Office Lane, Kempsey, Worcestershire - so it is reasonable to suppose that there was a fairly close relationship between them. More than forty records, in various musical styles, appeared on Happy Face; their content, and the fact that they are so rarely met with, suggests that the company was one of those which specialized in custom recording - making records for people who paid it to do so. Dates of operation seem to have been from 1977 to 1983. Singles and EPs were numbered in an MM-100 series from at least 115 onwards. Some EPs had 'MUFF' prefixes and a simpler design: in addition to the example shown. Brian Sharp's 'Don't Leave Me This Way' was MUFF-7, while 'Can't Halp Falling In Love' by Garry Tate was MUFF-112. Sadly they were undated, but it seems reasonable to propose that the MUFFs were earlier than the MMs and that the numbering jumped from MUFF-9 to MUFF-110, with MUFF being replaced by MM at some point after MM-112 (in 1979). LPs were numbered in the MFLP-1000s or the MMLP-1000s. It is possible that albums, singles and EPs shared a numerical series, or the last two numbers of it anyway, with - for example - album MMLP-1022 bring followed by single MM-123. That theory would fill in some of the gaps in the 7" catalogue; though there are too few Happy Face records listed for it to be proved. In the early 1980s some Happy Face singles were handled by Pinnacle. Some example shown would appear to have been dinked by its buyer, for juke-box purposes. Logically enough, later designs (in 1983) had a 'happy face' logo on them. Distributed By Pinnacle Records. Thanks to Robert Lyons For The Info.
| 77 | Ian Lockyer | The Good, The Bad And The Ugly | HAPPY FACE | MUFF | 1 / 2 |
| 77 | April Day | What A Difference A Day Makes | HAPPY FACE | MUFF | 3 / 4 |
| 77 | Not Issued | HAPPY FACE | MUFF | 5 | |
| 77 | Clipper | Sky High | HAPPY FACE | MUFF | 6 |
| 77 | Sharp Brian | Don'T Leave Me This Way | HAPPY FACE | MUFF | 7 |
| 77 | Richard Davis | That's Where The Music Takes Me | HAPPY FACE | MUFF | 9 |
| 77 | Martin Keith | I Recall A Gipsy Woman | HAPPY FACE | MUFF | 9 |
| 78 | Chase High School Band | Chase High School Band 1978 EP | HAPPY FACE | MM | 110 |
| 77 | Michael Conradd Duo | Austin Brothers Circus Ep | HAPPY FACE | MM | 111 |
| 77 | Gerry Tate | Can'T Help Falling In Love | HAPPY FACE | MM | 112 |
| 77 | Toni Morrell | Toni Morrell EP | HAPPY FACE | MM | 113 |
| 77 | Tony Arneldo | Love Is A Many Splendored Thing | HAPPY FACE | MM | 114 |
| 78 | Dangerous Girls | Dangerous Girls | HAPPY FACE | MM | 115 |
| 79 | Dangerous Girls | Taaga [ Ep ] | HAPPY FACE | MM | 116 |
| 79 | Not Traced | HAPPY FACE | MM | 117 | |
| 80 | Safety In Numbers | Jump Up And Down | HAPPY FACE | MM | 118 |
| 80 | Not Traced | HAPPY FACE | MM | 119 | |
| 80 | Diamond Head | Shoot Out The Light | HAPPY FACE | MMDH | 120 |
| 80 | Wonderful Wolves | Wonderful Wolves First Half | HAPPY FACE | MM | 121 |
| 80 | Sharp Steve & Cleancuts | We Are The Mods | HAPPY FACE | MM | 122 |
| 80 | Rotation | Ice Cold Eyes | HAPPY FACE | MM | 123 |
| 80 | Cryer | Single | HAPPY FACE | MM | 124 |
| 80 | Ray Ritchie | Ole Leroy / American Trilogy | HAPPY FACE | MM | 125 |
| 80 | Charlton Folk Dreams | Skye Boat Song | HAPPY FACE | MM | 126 |
| 80 | Not Traced | HAPPY FACE | MM | 127 | |
| 80 | Not Traced | HAPPY FACE | MM | 128 | |
| 80 | Not Traced | HAPPY FACE | MM | 129 | |
| 80 | Zoom Club | I Can't Compete | HAPPY FACE | MM | 130 |
| 80 | Not Traced | HAPPY FACE | MM | 131 | |
| 81 | Mcinnes Alyson | Jump Shout Boogie | HAPPY FACE | MM | 132 |
| 81 | Shiloh | Back 40 Rip Off | HAPPY FACE | MM | 133 |
| 81 | Not Traced | HAPPY FACE | MM | 134 | |
| 81 | Not Traced | HAPPY FACE | MM | 135 | |
| 81 | John Bryan And Alyson McInnes | I'd Like To Spend The Night | HAPPY FACE | MM | 136 |
| 81 | Cissy Stone | Ambitious | HAPPY FACE | MM | 137 |
| 81 | Boone & Murfin | Wyvern | HAPPY FACE | MM | 138 |
| 81 | The Saracens Featuring Graham Powell | Christmas Time | HAPPY FACE | MM | 139 |
| 81 | Not Traced | HAPPY FACE | MM | 140 | |
| 81 | Saracens | A Good Thing Never Dies | HAPPY FACE | MM | 141 |
| 82 | Briar | Rainbow | HAPPY FACE | MM | 142 |
| 82 | Friends | Jump Shout Boogie | HAPPY FACE | MM | 143 |
| 83 | John's Friends | John's Song | HAPPY FACE | MM | 144 |
