Delightful people’s simple melody briefly filling records (10)
I believe the answer is:
enchanters
'delightful people's' is the definition.
(enchanting or lovely people)
'simple melody briefly filling records' is the wordplay.
'simple melody' becomes 'chant' (a chant is a song).
'briefly' means to remove the last letter.
'filling' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'records' becomes 'enters' (enter can mean to enter into a record).
'chant' with its last letter removed is 'chan'.
'chan' placed within 'enters' is 'ENCHANTERS'.
I've seen this clue in The Times.
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