The label(s) of Mike Kean's Emkay Entertainments management company, operative in or around 1977-78 from premises in Picardy Park, Edinburgh. Of the six Emkay records I have been able to trace so far three were albums, the others being singles or EPs. First out of the traps was 'My Sweet Baby' b/w 'Endless Dreams' by The Mimics, which gave the company's name as Emkay Entertainments (1); it hadn't got a catalogue number but the numbers RE-43 and LYN-4349 / 4350 appeared on the run-offs, indicating a custom recording made through REL (q.v.) and pressed by Lyntone in April 1977. That was followed by a five-track EP of popular Club / Cabaret songs by Dean Park, 'Dean Park Sings' (RE-49), which again was on Emkay Entertainments, and by Gordon Sinclair's version of the Bee Gees' 'First Of May' b/w 'Jean' (MK-003), by which time the label name had become Emkay Records (2). The Dean Park EP appears to have been re-pressed as Emkay Records MK-002. Albums, EPs singles shared the same MK-000 numerical series. The Gordon Sinclair single can be found with silver-on-dark-blue and black-on-light-blue labels as well as the silver-on-black ones shown above, so it must have sold well enough to require a couple of re-pressings. Thanks to Ade Macrow of 45cat.com for allowing me to use that scan here, and to Stephen Small for discographical information.
Copyright 2012 Robert Lyons.