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Established by Tom Costello (of the Tom Costello Organization) and Brian Molloy.
They also set up a publishing wing Molco Music (Molco = Molloy + Costello).
Brian Molloy acted as label manager. Brian also set up the Play Records label and managed
several bands, including the Cotton Mill boys. Dave Pennyfeather also worked for
Hawk (A&R?) at some point.
The label was active from 1972-1980 approx. A new Hawk label emerged in the north
circa 1985 which may be related.
Potentially interesting releases are shown in bold.
Label Designs
Singles
HASP 300 Series 1972-1980
HASP 301 Tracy & The Grassroots - Letter To Heaven / I Wanna Get Married [1972]
HASP 302 The Hootenannys - Taller Than Trees / Stop The World
HASP 303 The Cotton Mill Boys - How Can I Write On Paper / Ashes Of Love [6/1972] (PS)
HASP 304 Tracy & The Grassroots - Husband Hunting / Pal Of Mine [1972]
HASP 305 Des Wilson & the Big Country - The Pillow That Whispers / The Farmer's Daughter [1972] arr by Noel Kelehan, prod Bill O'Donovan
HASP 306 Tracy & The Grassroots - Paper Roses / By the Bright Silvery Light of the Moon [1972]
HASP 307 The Cotton Mill Boys - Meet The Cottons EP [1972] Super Single [4-track EP] (PS)
Katy Clyne / Try A Little Kindness // Does My Ring Hurt Your Finger / A Maidens Prayer
HASP 308
HASP 309 Good Time Charley [Charlie Murphy] - Good Time Charley's Got The Blues / I Love You [1972]
HASP 310
HASP 311 The Real McCoy - Meet The Real McCoy EP Super Single [4 Track EP] (PS) [11/1972]
HASP 312 The Hootenannys - The Last Time I'm Leaving / ???
HASP 313 The Mallet Sisters and The Friends Showband - No Trespassing / Mary From Dungloe [1973]
HASP 314
HASP 315 The Cotton Mill Boys - Judy / Lost Indian [4/1973]
HASP 316 The Fleet with Gerry Fahy - Higher And Higher / High On A Mountain
HASP 317 Gloria & The Johnny McEvoy Band - s/t EP Super Single [4 Track EP]
Tomorrow Is Forever / The Golden Jubilee // Just Because I'm A Woman / Kennedy's Fancy
HASP 318 The Johnny Flynn Sound - Drowning My Sorrows / Playback [1973]
HASP 319
HASP 320 Mushroom - Devil Among The Tailors // Siun Ni Dhuibhir / The King of Ireland's Daughter [1973]
HASP 321 Tracy & The Grassroots - Island Of Dreams (Springfield) / Sour Grapes (Ghent) [1973] produced by Gerry Madigan
HASP 322 The Hoot'nannys feat. Desie O'Flaherty - Rockin' The Baby / The Hoot'nannys feat. Pat Hamill - Cards And Letters [1973] same band as The Hootenannys
HASP 323 Brian Byrne - This Town Is Not Their Own / Raucky Breezes [1973]
HASP 324 Lola & the New Blues - Down By The River (Hammond/Hazelwood) / Little Pleasure Acre (Cook/Greenaway) [1973]
HASP 325 Tommy Makem - The Winds Are Singing Freedom / Lord of the Dance
HASP 326
HASP 327 Skid Row - Dublin City Girls / Dont Let Me Down [10/1973] (PS)
HASP 328 Emmet Spiceland - One Morning in May / The Willow [1973]
HASP 329 The Cotton Mill Boys EP [11/1973]
HASP 330
HASP 331 Gene Stuart & The Mighty Avons - Christmas In My Hometown / Monkeys [1973]
HASP 332 Dee Leydon & The Powermen - The Best Is Yet To Come / Get Some Lovin' Done
HASP 333
HASP 334 Juice - Come Back Petrol / Watch [1973] Jimmy Smith & Martin Gerathy of the Mighty Avons
HASP 335 Des Wilson & The Cotton Mill Boys - Arms Full of Empty / Tony Hughes & The Cotton Mill Boys - She Thinks I Still Care [4/1974]
HASP 336 Gene Stuart & The Mighty Avons - If Teardrops Were Pennies / Mississippi Sands [1974]
HASP 337 Brendan Quinn - Behind Closed Doors / Ride Me Down Easy [1974]
HASP 338 Dee Leyden & The Powermen - A Little Bit Later On Down the Line // A Woman Without A Home / Brahms Lullaby [1974]
HASP 339 The Conquerors - Same Old Song / Arms Full of Empty [1974]
HASP 340 Mushroom - Kings & Queens / Met A Friend [1974]
HASP 341
HASP 342 Gene Stuart & The Mighty Avons - The Man Behind The Gun / Jeannie Norman
HASP 343 The Cotton Mill Boys - (All Together Now) Let's Fall Apart / Now You're Gone [6/1974]
HASP 344 Gloria & The Johnny McEvoy Band - When I Sing For Him / ???
HASP 345 Cavalry featuring Terry McMullen - It's Been A Beautiful Life / Won't You Be My Friend
HASP 346 Lola & The New Blues - Over And Over / He Thinks I Still Care [9/1974]
HASP 347 Mushroom - The Crying / Unborn Child [1974] unreleased/withdrawn
The release of HASP 347 was cancelled after it was pressed and there are copies in circulation.
HASP 348 The Mighty Avons feat. Martin Geraghty - My Only Fascination / Times May Come [Geraghty] [1974]
HASP 349 Brendan Quinn & Cades County - You Give Me You / Keep On Keeping Her Mine
HASP 350 Jim Tobin and The Firehouse - My New Love Is Ruby / Am I Losing You [1974]
HASP 351 The Light Blues - Heffo's Army / The Dubs Are Back [1974] feat. John Keogh (The Greenbeats) and Dave Pennyfeather
HASP 352
HASP 353 Derrick & The Conquerors - Singing A Song About Love / All My Love [1974]
HASP 354 Brendan Quinn & The Mighty Avons - We Had It All / Keep On Keeping Her Mine
HASP 355 Glen Curtin, Lola & the New Blues - I'm So Afraid of Falling / The Snows of '49 [12/1974]
HASP 356 Jim Tobin and The Firehouse - Bimbo / Am I Losing You [1974]
HASP 357
HASP 358 Brendan Quinn & The Mighty Avons - Wedding Bells / Forever Was The Name Of Our Sunshine [1975] (PS)
HASP 359 John Farrell - Tell Him / Something You Got [1974]
HASP 360 Frank Sutcliffe - Run Son / It's Really Over [1975] [rec'd @Trend, arr. & pr. John D'Ardis]
HASP 361 Gloria & The Johnny McEvoy Band - Bedtime Story / Everybody's Somebody's Fool
HASP 362 The Monkeys - Monkey Rock / Rainy Season [1975]
HASP 363 Derricks Band - Second Thoughts / Poor Mans Life [1975] Derrick Mehaffey of Derrick & The Sounds, etc.
HASP 364 Johnny McEvoy - Where My Eileen Is Waiting / Castle of Dromore [1975]
HASP 365
HASP 366
HASP 367 Jim Tobin & Firehouse - He'll Have To Go / Blue Side of Lonesome
HASP 368
HASP 369 Danny Fontana - A Fool Such As I / It's Too Soon To Know [1975] (PS)
HASP 370 The New Blues - Sligo the Champions / The Sligo Maid [1975]
HASP 371 Johnny McEvoy - Rose Of Allendale / Life Of The Rover [1975]
HASP 372 Brendan Quinn & The Mighty Avons - You're My Best Friend / Come Early Morn [1975]
HASP 373 Wiskie Styl - Arthur McBride [trad.arr.by Brush Shiels] / Charlie Chaplin [1975]
HASP 374 Anna Manahan - Me / But Now I Know [1975] spoken word
HASP 375 Billy Brown, Derek Dean & The Freshmen - Papa Oo Mow Mow / Northwest Territory [1975]
HASP 376 The Monkeys - Monkey Lovin' / Come Home Love [1976] showband based in Athlone
HASP 377 Aimen Cannon - White Christmas / Sounds Nocturnal [1975] DJ & TV presenter ('Aimen High' on RTE)
HASP 378 Sandy Duskey & The Fairways - Come Back Billy Joe / Gary Street, Sandy Duskey & The Fairways - Koko's Drum [1976]
HASP 379 Tony Stevens & Western Union - Send Me No Roses / The Farmers Son
HASP 380 The Mighty Avons Featuring Hugh McLean - The Harvest Moon / Streets Of Gold
HASP 381 The Cotton Mill Boys - Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Joey Maroney [1976]
HASP 382 John Kerr - Tonight In Camden Town / A Little Country Town In Ireland
HASP 383 Lee Conway - Thinking Of You / The Road Is Far [1976] licensed from Image Records, Australia
HASP 384 Jim Tobin & The Firehouse - Little Isle of Green / Little Old Dime [1976]
HASP 385 The Big Time (featuring Johnny Shiels) - Put Another Log On The Fire / Think Before You Frown [1976]
HASP 386 Sandy Duskey & The Fairways - Love Me Just A Little Bit More / Can't You See I Love You [7/1976]
HASP 387 Tracy & The Grassroots - It Amazes Me / (I’d Take A) Cowboy [1976]
HASP 388 Johnny McEvoy - Long Before Your Time / It's Been A Beautiful Life [1976] taken from HALP 150
HASP 389 The Jarveys - Keep On Tryin' / Ridin' High [1976] AKA The Swinging Jarveys (Killarney)?
HASP 390 The Memories - Skyin' / All I've Got [8/1976]
HASP 391 Tarzan & The Monkeys - Daydream Believer / Twist Of The Wrist [1976]
HASP 392 Kay & The Country Strangers - Before I'm Fool Enough / Wrong Road Again [1976] both sides by Allen Reynolds
HASP 393 Tony Hughes of the Cotton Mill Boys - The Wedding Song / You'll Never be Lonely Again [8/1976]
HASP 394 Hugh McClean & The Mighty Avons - The Leprechaun / Amanda [1976]
HASP 395 Johnny McEvoy - The Old Man And The Donkey / Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer [1976]
HASP 396 The Cotton Mill Boys - Raining In My Heart / Orange Blossom Special (PS) [1976]
HASP 397
HASP 398 Tracy & The Grassroots - Not That Good At Goodbye / ???
HASP 399
HASP 400 Sandy Duskey - Yesterday Song / Hey Jude [1977]
HASP 401 Brush Shiels - Look At Love Bleed / Better Than I Expected [1977]
HASP 402 Jim Tobin - Don't Fight The Feelings Of Love / Mammas Face
HASP 403 The Cotton Mill Boys - I Don't Regret A Minute / Turkey In The Straw [1977]
HASP 404 The Cotton Mill Boys - Lucille / Downstairs In The Attic [1977]
HASP 405 Johnny McEvoy - Nora (re-recording of 1968 A-side) / Rosaleen Sweet Rosaleen [1977]
HASP 406 Jim Tobin - I'm Getting Good At Missing You / I Can Feel The Leaving Coming On
HASP 407 The Cotton Mill Boys - I've Just Seen Her Face / Heathery Breezes [1977]
HASP 408 Brendan Bowyer & The Big 8 - It's Now or Never / Keep On Singing [1977]
does HASP 411 also exist with 'All My Life Is You' as the B-side?
HASP 409 Shay Healy & Rubbish - Lucilles Revenge / The Wonderful Fu [1977]
HASP 410 Gibney & Donovan - How Deep Is The Night / Sail To The Sun [1977]
HASP 411 Brendan Bowyer & The Big 8 - Thank You Elvis (medley) / Stagger Lee [1977] (PS)
HASP 412 Jim Tobin & The Firehouse - The Rhythm Of Love / Falling In Love Again
HASP 413 Sunshine - Dance With Me / Evil Eyes [1977]
HASP 414 The Indians - Indian Christmas (Doyle/Swan) / Happy Christmas Day [12/1977]
HASP 415 Tony Stevens - Wrap Me In Your Arms / Remembering
HASP 416 The Cotton Mill Boys - Heaven's Just A Sin Away / Showboat Gambler [4/1978]
HASP 417 Gibney & Donovan - You've Got Your Troubles / Tired Eyes [1978]
HASP 418 Sandy Duskey & The Fairways - Not With You / I'm Alive Again [1978]
HASP 419 Brush Shiels - Fight Your Heart Out / Coming Home [1977]
HASP 420 Tony Stevens - By the Devil / Half As Much
HASP 421
HASP 422 Johnny McEvoy - Bound For Botany Bay / All In All In [1978]
HASP 423
HASP 424 Mick Foster & Tony Allen (later Foster & Allen) - Rambles of Spring / The Blacksmith
HASP 425 Johnny Pearson - All Creatures Great and Small / Love Dream
HASP 426
HASP 427 The Pirates Featuring The Quinns - A Little Bit Of Country / I Love The Beat Of Rock N Roll
HASP 428 Johnny McEvoy - Just One More Night / Matt Highland
HASP 429 The Cotton Mill Boys - Whiskey / Catwillow River [11/1978]
HASP 430 Jim Tobin & Firehouse - May the Wind Be Always At Your Back / January April and Me
HASP 431 The Cabinteely Singers - When God Created Woman (Billy Brown) / Isn't She Lovely (S.Wonder) [1978]
HASP 432 Pauric Brown - Walking Talking Dolly / Yarmouth Town [1978]
HASP 433 Jim McCann - Her Father Didn't Like Me Anyway / Copper Kettle [1979]
HASP 434
HASP 435 The Cotton Mill Boys - You Are No Angel / Penelope [4/1979]
HASP 436 Kim Newport - Stop, Think / A Love Song [3/1979]
HASP 437 Tony Stevens - Whose Little Girl Are You Babe? / Nicola [1979]
HASP 438 Quinset (A-side featuring Lee & Emlee; B-side feat. Emlee) - Ti Amo / Blue Bayou [1979]
HASP 439 Sandy Duskey - Let It Shine / Just One More Night [5/1979]
HASP 440 Joy Starr - You Got All Of Me / I'll Do It Again [1979]
HASP 441 Jim McCann - The Town Is Not Their Own / Weather The Storm [1979]
HASP 442 Johnny McEvoy - Anne Devlin / Do I Love You
HASP 443 Kim Newport - Midnight Lullaby / I'd Do It Again [10/1979] (PS)
HASP 444 Tony Stevens - Who Do You Think You Are / Beautiful Rose
HASP 445 Mushroom - Devil Among the Tailors / Drowsy Maggie [1979] reissue
HASP 446 The Cotton Mill Boys - The Devil Went Down To Georgia / Bad Eyed Bill [10/1979]
HASP 447 Tracy & The Grassroots - Hard Times (Come Again No More) / Yesterday Song (Billy Brown) [1979]
HASP 448 Jim McCann - Alone / Third Time Lucky [1979]
HASP 449 Johnny McEvoy - The Old Rocking Chair / Lovely Lady [1980]
HASP 450 The Cotton Mill Boys - Should I Come Home / Should I Come Home (instrumental)
HASP 451 Tony Stevens - Who Gets The Lovin' / Who Gets The Lovin' (instrumental) [1980]
HASP 500 Series 1981
HASP 501 Jim McCann - From Clare To Here / The Rare Ould Times [1981]
HASM 2000 EP Series 1974
HASM 2001 Johnny McEvoy - Rose of Moray EP Super Single [1974]
Rose of Moray / James Connolly // Nora / Teardrop On A Rose / Leitrim Queen
HASM 2002 Johnny McEvoy - Christmas EP [1974]
Little Drummer Boy / O Bambino / Father Dickens // Standing In The Rain / When I Sing For Him
HASM 2003 The Mighty Avons - Super Bundle EP [1974] 6 tracks feat different lead vocalist
side one: Brendan Quinn - White Christmas / Hugh McClean - Louisiana Man / Martin Geraghty - I've Loved You All Over The World
side two: Hugh McClean - Santa & The Kids / Brendan Quinn - You've Never Been This Far / Martin Geraghty - Man On The Street
Miscellaneous
HSP 001 Ram & Tam - Maybe / ??
HAS? ??? The Cotton Mill Boys - Truck Drivin' Man [1979]
HAS? ??? Indians - EP Super Single 4-track EP [1972] unconfirmed
Albums
HALP Series 1972-1980
Prefix (S)HALP/HALPX/HALPZ
HALP 101 The Indians - Indian Country [1972]
HALP 102? Tracy & The Grassroots - s/t [1972]
HALP 103 The Cotton Mill Boys - The Many Sides of [1972]
HALP 104 Dublin City Ramblers - A Nation Once Again [1972] [reissued on Dolphin in 1977?)
HALP 105 Brian Byrne - s/t [1973] reissued on Harp Records (HPE 652) circa 1982
HALP 106 Anne Byrne & Paddy Roche - Anne Byrne Sings Irish [1973]
HALP 107 Gerry Madigan - Cotton Mill Boy [1973] with Gay & Terry Woods
HALPX 108 The Cotton Mill Boys - Hitsville [1973]
HALPX 109 The Indians - Indian Reservation [1973]
HALP 110 Tracy & Des Wilson (Cotton Mill Boys) - Together [1974?]
HALP 111
HALPX 112 Johnny McEvoy - s/t [1973]
HALP 113? v/a - Stars of Ireland Volume 1 [1973] must be 111 or 113
HALPX 114 Brendan Quinn - Four In The Morning [1973]
HALP 115 Johnny McEvoy - Sings Country [1973]
HALPX 116 Mushroom - Early One Morning [1973] +Poster
HALPX 117 Johnny McEvoy - Sounds Like McEvoy [1973]
HALP 118 v/a - 20 Stars of Ireland Volume 2 [1973]
HALPX 119 Gene Stuart & The Mighty Avons - Showcase
HALP 120 Gene Stuart - Greatest Hits
HALP 121 Tony Hughes & The Cotton Mill Boys - Try A Little Kindness [1974]
HALP 122 Dermot O'Brien - Sings
HALP 123
HALP 124 The Cotton Mill Boys - The All Star Cotton Mill Boys [7/1974]
HALPX 125 Johnny McEvoy - All Our Wars Were Merry, All Our Songs Were Sad LP [1974]
HALP 126 Gloria - Country Girl Gloria [1974]
HALP 127 Anne Byrne - Come By The Hills [1974]
HALP 128 v/a - 20 Irish Hits
HALP 128 Velvet - The Best Of
HALP 129 Tracy (Tracy & The Grassroots) - Tracy's Greatest Hits [1974]
HALP 129
HALPX 130 Johnny McEvoy - Sings Hank Williams LP [1974]
HALP 131
HALPX 132 Brendan Balfe - Balfe Bothered and Bewildered [1974] comedy
HALP 133 The Cotton Mill Boys - 25 Country Classics Vol.1 [1974]
HALPX 134 The Brendan Mulhaire Céilí Band - Céilí House [1975]
HALP 135 The Press Gang - s/t [1975] close 4-part harmonies on Irish & English trad songs from Tony Crehan, Sean Corcoran, Niall Fennell & Dave Smith
HALP 136 Tommy Makem - 4 Green Fields [1975]
HALP 137 The Cotton Mill Boys - 25 Country Classics Vol.2 [1975]
HALP 138 Paddy Joe - Little Isle of Green [1975]
HALP 139 V/A - Stars of Ireland, Songs of Ireland [1975]
HALPX 140 Johnny McEvoy & Gloria Smyth - Golden Duets [1975]
HALPX 141 The Indians - The Magnificent Seven [7/1975]
HALPX 142 The Buskers - s/t [1975] pre Fureys
HALPX 143 Johnny McEvoy - Where My Eileen Is Waiting [1975]
HALPZ 144 Brendan Quinn And The Mighty Avons - 22 Dancing Hits LP
HALP 145 The Cotton Mill Boys - 25 Country Classics Vol.3 [1975]
HALP 146 The Caroleers - The Sound of Christmas [1975]
SHALP 147 Louis Stewart Trio - Louis The First [1976]
HALP 148 John Kerr - Sings Souvenir Songs Of Ireland [1976]
HALP 149 Ceolteoiri Altan - s/t [1976]
HALP 150 Johnny McEvoy - Long Before Your Time LP [1976]
SHALP 151 Veronica McSweeney - Plays LP [1976] classical solo piano
HALP 152 Bridge Ceili Band - s/t AKA The Bridge (orig:1972) [1976]
HALP 153 The Pipers Club - s/t [1976]
HALP 154 The Indians - We're Just Indians [1976]
HALP 155 Shamrock Singers - Irish Singalong [1976] licensed form Image Records, Australia
HALP 156 Tracy - It Amazes Me [1976]
HALP 157 Johnny McEvoy - Christmas Dreams [1976]
HALP 158 The Cotton Mill Boys - Orange Blossom Special [1976]
HALP 159 Wiskie Styl - s/t
HALP 160 Unknown Artist(s) – The Little Red Engine & 5 Other Favourite Stories [1976?]
HALP 161 Unknown Artist(s) – 40 Favourite Nursery Rhymes [1976]
HALP 162 The Neta Neale Players – Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs. Six Favourite Stories [1976] licensed from Music World Ltd, New Zealand.
HALP 163 The Memories - Time To Go On LP [1976]
HALP 164 Johnny McEvoy - Leaves in the Wind LP [1977]
HALP 165 Joe O'Hehir - Live At The Beehive LP [1977]
HALP 166 Emmet Spiceland - s/t (orig:1968) [1977]
HALP 167 Fairport Convention [UK] - The Bonny Bunch of Roses [1977]
HALP 168 Sandy Theorét [Canada] - Sing Me A Love Song [1977] licensed from Boot Records
HALP 169 Brush Shiels - s/t [1977]
HALP 170 The Indians - Dance On with The Indians [1977]
HALP 171 The Cotton Mill Boys - Flyin' High [1977]
HALP 172 Jim Tobin & Firehouse - Rhythm Of Love [1977]
HALP 173 Brendan Bowyer - Home And Abroad [1977]
HALP 174 Johnny McEvoy - I'll Spend A Time With You [1978]
HALP 175 Brendan Quinn - Songs I Love To Sing
HALP 176 The Indians - Indian Tracks [12/1978]
HALP 177
HALP 178 V/A - 20 Irish Hits [1979]
HALP 179 Jim McCann - s/t [1980]
HALP 1?? The Neta Neale Players - Snow White & The Seven Dwarves (6 Favourite Stories) LP/K7 [1976]
Miscellaneous LP Releases
HBLP 001 V/A - H-Block [1978]
HALP TV1 Johnny McEvoy - 20 Greatest Hits [1979]
HALP TV2 Johnny McEvoy - Johnny McEvoy Collection: 20 More Hits [1982]
thanks to Eddie Kelly (RIP), John Lynch, the Failed Bohemian & Jimmy @ Superhero Comic & Record Shop.
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