MAM Records

MAM Records was a British label started in 1970 by the management firm Management Agency & Music Ltd., which was set up by Gordon Mills and Tom Jones. Its early releases were handled by Decca Records. The label's debut single was Dave Edmunds' "I Hear You Knocking" from 1970. Later that same year, Gilbert O'Sullivan began a string of successful singles for MAM with "Nothing Rhymed," and his album Himself became the label's first hit album in 1971.

More hit albums from O'Sullivan, including Back to Front, I'm a Writer, Not a Fighter, and A Stranger In My Own Back Yard, followed. Lynsey de Paul joined MAM in 1972, launching her hit singles with "Sugar Me." Her first album, Surprise, came out on MAM in 1973, and a compilation, The World of Lynsey de Paul (also called Lynsey Sings), appeared in 1974. Engelbert Humperdinck, whose manager was Gordon Mills, was another key artist for the label.

MAM also put out singles by Frank Ifield, Johnny Nash, Leapy Lee, and Tina Charles, though none became hits. Distribution moved to EMI in the mid-1970s. The company was bought by Chrysalis Records in the 1980s. After Chrysalis was sold to EMI in 1991, many MAM recordings were reissued by EMI.

When EMI broke up in 2013, Chrysalis went to BMG Rights Management. Today, BMG owns MAM's catalogue, and Warner Music's ADA distributes it.