A small independent label, run by Liverpool-based Country music promoter Country Music Productions, later of Footscray, Sidcup, in Kent. According to the notes on the rear of its sleeve the EP shown in the first scan above, 'Country Code 051' by Hartford West (CMP/GG-1011), was supposed to be a sampler from a forthcoming LP, but there's no sign of an LP online today. It was also intended to be one of a series of records featuring 'well-known' Country groups, but googling only dredges up two others: Sandra Lynton & The Lyntones' six-track EP 'San Lyntone Country' (GG/CMP-1012), which had a light-blue label of a similar design, and 'Consul Country' by The Consuls (CMP GG-1115), which, as can be seen, had injection moulded labels and was pressed by Phonodisc. All three EPs were recorded at the G&G Electronics Studio in Garston and used catalogue numbers from the G&G series. There are no dates on the first two records, but the G&G Studio put out a couple of EPs on its G&G Electronics label (q.v.) around 1975 with numbers subsequent to these, so it seems reasonable to guess that those C.M.P. EPs date from 1974 or 1975. The third is definitely from 1975, as the scan shows - thanks to John Timmis for providing it and for bringing that EP to my attention. Run-off markings suggest that manufacture of the Hartford West EP was through Deroy.
I'm not 100% sure that the Barry Richards EP shown in the third scan is from the same company, as the full stops are missing from the logo and the catalogue number is from a different series, but I'd go for 95% - if C.M.P. moved on from G&G a new series would be needed, and the co-producer 'K. Herd' is only a couple of typos away from R(ichard) Head, who produced a couple of the earlier EPs. Richards had Country leanings, as the tracks on his two self-financed albums from later on indicate - for the sake of interest those LPs were 'By Request' (SRTZ-78400) from 1978 and 'Barry Richards' (SRTY/79/CU-559) from 1979. The only other C.M.P. record that I have been able to track down was a 1978 reissue of a Various Artists LP that had been out on Lucky (see 'Lucky, LU prefix) at the start of the decade, 'The Frank Yonko Show', which kept its old catalogue number of LUS-3008. By that time Country Music Productions had relocated to its Sidcup address.
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