sheepd': emi (the gramophone company) took over top rank records and turned the record label into their stateside label, moving onto it future recordings bought in on licence, both as one-offs and as continuing commitments, from outside record companies that had previously been acquired for the emi columbia, hmv pop, parlophone & top rank labels° - the form of the matrix numbers of the (majority of the) single releases betray the essential continuity from t'one to t'other.
- so everything released on the uk top rank label after emi (the gramophone company)'s purchase of the company - and arguably aught released on it before that - became the early part of the stateside story, especially if reissued upon the new label - though yr hmbl srppnt.'d not, personally, include any original uk recordings by the independent top rank records in this.
° - where the contractual commitment by the outside record/music company to emi wasn't an exclusive licence for at least the uk of gb & ni, much/most/all of the commonwealth & possibly former british empire (but usually excluding revolting ex-colonials in north america - and sometimes loyal former colonials too), and where emi's commitments to the originating music company didn't include releasing their "product" upon a facsimile of the original label, or on some newly created label clearly indicative of the originators' identity°°, and to which they might retain ownership.
°° - e.g. the "tamla motown" label, launched by emi in 1965 in the uk, most yeurppean countries outside comecon, and in south america, anglophone (& afrikaans) africa, asia, xxxxia & kiwiiia...
Anyone any idea why B. Bumble & The Stingers' Nut Rocker is on here when it was originally released on Top Rank and only re-issued on Stateside? Just curious.