23 — Cherry Red Records

Needs attention

• Oh Honey (master): The 1976 recording agreement grants the Delegation performers’ master rights to State Records, and the later share-sale agreement identifies the exact “Oh Honey” recording as owned by State Records. Cherry Red’s schedule says it controls 100%, but the available share-sale papers do not show that the sale completed. Confirm completion and the chain from State Records to Cherry Red Records Limited. Confirm the State Records signature and relevant artist authority under the 1976 agreement; the scanned copy shows performer signatures but the State Records signature area is unclear and one listed artist’s signature line is crossed out.
• Rubber Band and The Godfather (masters): The 12 active Cherry Red documents do not identify these recordings or provide a title instrument for them. Obtain work-specific rights evidence; this library-search result does not establish that Cherry Red lacks rights.
• This Is Your Life – Less Stress Mix (master): The matching sound-recording registration names Do It Yourself Music Group, lists other mixes, and excludes the original version; it does not clearly cover this exact Spotify version or connect it to Cherry Red. Confirm the exact recording and any intervening rights transfer.

Rights by work

• Oh Honey — Delegation

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  - Master: The 1976 agreement states an exclusive, perpetual, worldwide master grant from the performers to State Records for recordings made under the agreement. The 2025 share-sale agreement identifies the Delegation master recording of “Oh Honey” as owned by State Records, and Cherry Red’s schedule lists “Oh Honey” / Delegation at 100% controlled. Completion of the share sale—and therefore the link to the case organization—remains unconfirmed. - Composition: Not listed for this work.

• Rubber Band — The Trammps

  - Master: The active catalogue scope is recording only. No work-specific title evidence was found in the available Cherry Red documents; the case organization’s current title is not established by the catalogue entry alone. - Composition: Not listed for this work.

• The Godfather — Audrey and the Hepburns

  - Master: The active catalogue scope is recording only. No work-specific title evidence was found in the available Cherry Red documents; the case organization’s current title is not established by the catalogue entry alone. - Composition: Not listed for this work.

• This Is Your Life – Less Stress Mix — Banderas

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  - Master: The active catalogue scope is recording only. The Copyright Office sound-recording record is a lead for “This Is Your Life,” but its listed contents do not include “Less Stress Mix,” and it excludes the original version. It names Do It Yourself Music Group, not Cherry Red. Exact-version coverage and any link to Cherry Red remain open. - Composition: Not listed for this work.

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Supporting documents

• State Records Limited — Midnight Diamonds (aka Delegation) Recording Agreement (30 June 1976)
  Section Two grants the performers’ results, masters and performances to State Records exclusively and perpetually throughout the defined worldwide territory. The scanned agreement shows signatures for Ricky Bailey, Len Coley and Roddy Harris; the State Records signature area is unclear and John Januszewski’s line is crossed out.
• State Records — share-sale agreement
  Identifies the Delegation master recordings, including the performance of “Oh Honey,” as owned by State Records under the 1976 agreement, and provides for Cherry Red Records Limited to buy all shares in State Records and two related companies. The agreement has counterpart signatures, but its date is blank and the file does not establish the required completion events, share transfers or payment. A share purchase is not itself an assignment of the masters.
• Cherry Red Schedule
  Lists “oh honey” / Delegation with 100% under “Cherry Red Percentage Controlled”; this supports a control assertion, not a standalone transfer instrument.
• Cherry Red Records Client Claim Authorization
  Dated August 5, 2026, and signed by Matt Bristow; authorizes Third Chair to enforce and settle claims for Company Content and receive payments. This supports authority to act, not copyright ownership.
• Copyright registration SR0000675566
  The stored registration response identifies a sound recording titled “This Is Your Life,” claimant Do It Yourself Music Group, and several listed edits/mixes. The contents do not name “Less Stress Mix”; the response says the original version’s sound recording and production are excluded. It does not establish Cherry Red’s rights in the selected Spotify version.