CJMO - the C. John Mears Organization - seems to have had a penchant for unusual items, among which were fairground organ records, a collection of favorite songs by the Ovaltineys, and an album of poetry for children, spoken by Arthur Lowe ('Moveaboutalot', RLP-777; 1977). It looks to have been active from the mid '70s to at least the early '80s. LPs and EPs alike shared the same '7xx' numerical series; the first two numbers may well indicate the year of issue. LPs were usually prefixed 'RLP' or 'PLP', though there were exceptions; EPs, of which there appear to have been just four, were prefixed 'CJMO R'. Distribution of CJMO records was by Lugton.
In addition to putting out its own records the company offered a custom recording service, the products of which were numbered in a PX-1000 series (PLP for LPs) which seems to have started at PX-1076. Some hadn't any discrete label identity (3), others appeared on the artists' own labels - see 'Beverley', 'Hustle', 'Sirius' and 'Neutron' for examples. In addition CJMO produced promotional records for companies such as Alliance Cash & Carry; these had their own 'CJMO P' prefix (4). The few CJMO EPs I have seen in the vinyl were manufactured by Pye, though several in the series of Alliance EPs were made through EMI and had EMI's 'SECW-1000' numbers in addition to the 'CJM P' ones - for some reason the actual pressing of them seems to have been farmed out to Linguaphone. The dates on these refer to when the material was originally issued - the tracks were licensed from EMI by Alliance. The CJMOs from the '70s that I have managed to track down are listed below. For the sake of interest I've included LPs.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.