MFP
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Independent label: Music For Pleasure Records was budget-price label, started operations in 1965 as a joint venture by EMI and the Paul Hamlyn group and was still going in the CD era; the name was shortened to MFP along the way.  EMI took full control of the label in January 1971 when it made a substantial shares purchase from the then part-owners IPC / Reed International.  The vast majority of the company's products consisted of LPs, but it made the occasional venture into the singles market.  It issued a series of records aimed at children, in the late 60s and early 70s, on the 'Surprise Surprise' label, and put out a number of anonymous covers of hits on its short-lived 'Double Top' label in or around 1972.  Around a dozen singles appeared on the actual MFP label in 1979/'83.  For better or worse MFP had a hit with the St. Winifred's School Choir singing 'There's No One Quite Like Grandma' (MFP-900) in 1980; other singles included records by Cannon & Ball and The Grumbleweeds.   For reasons which aren't immediately obvious, the numerical series appears to have started at FP-899, the record concerned being 'Bread And Fishes', an earlier single by St. Winifred's School Choir - it came out in November 1979.  Both red and yellow labels were used. Distributed By EMI Records. Thanks to Robert Lyons For The Info.

 

79	St Winifred'S School Choir	Bread And Fishes	MFP	FP	899
80	St Winifred'S School Choir	There'S No One Quite Like Grandma	MFP	FP	900
81	Grumbleweeds	Come On Down T'Bread Shop	MFP	FP	901
81	Grumbleweeds	Shall I Give You A Nudge	MFP	FP	902
81	St Winifred'S School Choir	Hold My Hand	MFP	FP	903
82	Tim Hart And Friends	Nick Nack Paddy Wack	MFP	FP	904
82	Cannon & Ball	Everybody 'S Making It Big But Me	MFP	FP	905
82	Cannon & Ball	Hold Me In Your Arms	MFP	FP	906
82	London Symphony Orchestra	Theme From E.T	MFP	FP	907
83	Cannon & Ball	Boy'S In Blue	MFP	FP	908
83	Plod	Laughing Policeman	MFP	FP	999
83	Hart Tim	The Drunken Sailor	MFP	FP	910