The record label of Cloth Cap Enterprises, of Birkenhead. The company received its only mention in 'Music Week' in the issue of the 22nd of April 1978, which described it as a fully operational management / agency / publishing company; according to the article it was run by Mike Mingard and Angie McCartney, Paul's stepmother, and it operated out of premises at 48 Hamilton Street. Cloth Cap Records managed at least a couple of releases, both of them singles. Norman Thomas's 'Disco Kid' (AR7-022) was made through Amazon Records and has a catalogue number belonging to the series used by that studio (1). I would guess that it pre-dates the second record shown above, 'I'll Hold Out As Long As I Can' by Young World (CCR-101), which was numbered in Cloth Cap's own CCR-100 series. Both of them came out in 1978. The style of the matrix numbers in the run-offs of both singles suggests that they were pressed by RCA. Norman Thomas was a popular DJ on Liverpool's 'Radio City' station; his record is a novelty Pop item with synthesizer and children's voices on it. Young World sound like a Boy Band; they wouldn't have been out of place as contestants on a talent show such as 'Opportunity Knocks'. In December 1978 Cloth Cap Enterprises changed its name to the Mike Mingard Organization Ltd, but the renamed company doesn't seem to have put out any more of its own records. Thanks to Sam Mauger for letting me know about the Norman Thomas single.
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