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Profile:	UK label associated with Scope Records (5) An offshoot of Lighning Records (q.v.). Scope started out as a label for in-demand Disco and Reggae records, but towards the end of its life it put out a couple of Pop / New-Wave-type singles. Lightning chose material for Scope by monitoring it's import sales and licensing some of the more popular product of the smaller foreign companies ('Music Week', 2nd June 1979). The label was distributed by major record corporation WEA, who were also responsible for manufacture. With WEA's muscle behind it Scope got two of its first six singles - Janet Kay's 'Silly Games' (SC-2; 1979) and Errol Dunkley's 'O. K. Fred' (SC-6; 1979) - into the Top 20. There were other, lesser, successes, but despite them Scope seems to have vanished in 1980. It appears to have issued just thirteen singles, in an SC-0 series, often with 12" versions as well as 7". The number SC-13 seems not to have been used.
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UK label associated with Scope Records (5)
An offshoot of Lighning Records (q.v.). Scope started out as a label for in-demand Disco and Reggae records, but towards the end of its life it put out a couple of Pop / New-Wave-type singles. Lightning chose material for Scope by monitoring it's import sales and licensing some of the more popular product of the smaller foreign companies ('Music Week', 2nd June 1979). The label was distributed by major record corporation WEA, who were also responsible for manufacture. With WEA's muscle behind it Scope got two of its first six singles - Janet Kay's 'Silly Games' (SC-2; 1979) and Errol Dunkley's 'O. K. Fred' (SC-6; 1979) - into the Top 20. There were other, lesser, successes, but despite them Scope seems to have vanished in 1980. It appears to have issued just thirteen singles, in an SC-0 series, often with 12" versions as well as 7". The number SC-13 seems not to have been used.

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lenroy.brown Mar 13, 2024
If you consider taking in the chart top 100, Scope was actually rather successful. They also charted with Nancy Dee feat. Benelux - Switch, Storm - It's My House which was another top 30 hit, Goody Goody - Number One DJ and Errol Dunkley - Sit Down And Cry. I've forgotten one, maybe two other titles. I had them at around 50% chart success.
Black Echoes magazine cited Warner Brothers pulling the plug on the label. I suspect that it was more to do with the backlash in the USA against Disco/Dance music which would have curtailed the source of available material for Scope Records. In my opinion, Warner Brothers should have stuck by them. their biggest successes were with licensed reggae products, which weren't going to be affected by the Disco backlash in the USA.