A publishing firm from Edinburgh. Holmes McDougall's primary interest was - and still is - in books, often of an educational type, but in the later '60s and early '70s it packaged EPs with some of its publications. The labels of these EPs don't always have the company's name on them, but in at least one case it was featured prominently, which justifies me giving the company a page on this site. As the scan indicates, the EP offered selections from a Holmes McDougall hymn book, sung by children from Hill View Junior School, Sunderland, and it came out in 1973. The catalogue number, PC-088, was one of a series used by Procaudio (q.v.), and the metalwork was done by Pye, while the matrix numbers, LYN-3073/74, indicate that Lyntone did the actual pressing. The cover of the company's 'Family Of Man' (PC-065/066; 1972), from a series called 'Words In Words', suggests that other booklets in that series also came with EPs, but there's no confirmatory evidence online. The booklets were: 'Dream Island', 'Beasts And Birds', 'Town Family', 'Countryside', 'Into Space', 'Growing Up', and 'Myths And Legends'. Other Holmes McDougall records can be found on the 'Career' and 'Craigie College Language Project' pages.
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