Editing Do It Records

{{Short description|British record label}}
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{{Infobox record label
 | name = Do It Records
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 | founded = 1977<ref name="discogs">{{cite web |title=Do It Records |url=https://www.discogs.com/label/16625-Do-It-Records |publisher=Discogs}}</ref>
 | defunct = 1984
 | founder = [[Robin Scott (singer)|Robin Scott]]<br>Max Tregoning<br>Ian Tregoning
 | status = Defunct 
 | distributor = 
 | genre = Various
 | country = United Kingdom
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'''Do It Records''' was a British [[independent record label]] based in London, England.<ref name="discogs" /> It was an early label of [[Adam and the Ants]], releasing their debut album ''[[Dirk Wears White Sox]]''<ref>{{cite web |title=Dirk Wears White Sox |url=https://www.adam-ant.net/dwws.html |website=adam-ant.net}}</ref> in November 1979 (which in January 1980 was the first ever number one on the [[UK Indie Chart|UK Independent Albums Chart]] and in February 1981 became a UK Top 20 album) as well as singles "Zerox" in June 1979 and "Cartrouble" in March 1980, the latter being not only a number one on the [[UK Indie Chart|UK Independent Singles Chart]] but also the first collaboration between [[Adam Ant]] and [[Marco Pirroni]], following the departure of the original Ants to form [[Bow Wow Wow]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dale |first1=Pete |title=Anyone Can Do It: Empowerment, Tradition and the Punk Underground |date=15 April 2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-18025-8 |page=232 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1UYHDAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Do+It+Records%22&pg=PA232}}</ref>

The company was founded in 1978 by [[Robin Scott (singer)|Robin Scott]], Max Tregoning and Ian Tregoning. Over the next six years, it released several recordings by [[M (band)|M]], Adam and the Ants, [[Anthony Moore]], [[Renaldo and the Loaf]], [[the Mothmen]] and [[Yello]], among others.<ref>Do It catalogue printed on reverse of lyric sheet for [[Friends (Adam and the Ants song)|''The B-Sides'' EP]], Do It Records DUNX20A, 1982</ref> After the label closed in 1983, the rights to its entire back catalogue were bought out by [[CBS Records International|CBS]], Adam Ant's then label,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Davis |first1=Sharon |title=80s Chart-Toppers: Every Chart-Topper Tells a Story |date=6 January 2012 |publisher=Random House |isbn=978-1-78057-411-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v_IyT35pJCgC&dq=%22Do+It+Records%22&pg=PT102}}</ref> to secure permanent control of the Ants' recording history with Do It. The back catalogue is now owned by [[Sony Music]] Entertainment, which bought out CBS in 1987.

==See also==
* [[Lists of record labels]]

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[[Category:Record labels established in 1978]]
[[Category:Record labels disestablished in 1984]]
[[Category:British independent record labels]]
[[Category:Pop record labels]]
[[Category:Rock record labels]]
[[Category:New wave record labels]]


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