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Stock Label Designs. Part 2 A.

Part 1 > Part 2 A > Part 2 B > Part 3 A > Part 3 B > Part 4 > Part 5 > Part 5B > Part 6 > Part 7 > Part 8 > Part 9 > Part 10 > Part 11
Delroy Wilson - Badness Don't Pay
This label pattern with a scroll type effect at the top was in use for around three years between 1971 and 1973. It was used extensively, but certainly not exclusively, by Bunny Lee.

Starting with two releases on Attack Records, Badness Don't Pay by Delroy Wilson and Rosabell by Cornell Campbell. Two Bunny Lee productions from 1973. Bunny used a variety of different designs for his Attack label over the years including the ones illustrated in part 4 and part 5.
Cornel Campbell
Augustus Pablo - Ape man
On Ah-Wee Records from 1973 Ape Man by Augustus Pablo, a cut of Look Before You Leap by Gregory Isaacs. A Dennis Smith production.

All Tone Records from 1972 and Merry Merry Caristmas (sic) by Alton (Ellis) And The I Listics. A self production by Alton Ellis.
Alton & The I Listics - Merry Merry Caristamas
Stranger Cole - My Confession Two issues from Bunny Lee on his Agro Sound label. My Confession by Stranger Cole and Take Me Back by Slim Smith (a cover, originally by Little Anthony and the Imperials). Again from 1972, unlike the prolific Attack label there were very few releases on Agro Sound. Slim Smith - Take Me Back
Movie Star by Errol Dunkley, a self production from 1971.

Another small run label by Bunny Lee and the one he named after himself. Tree In The Meadow by John Holt from 1973. 		John Holt - Tree In The Meadow
Dennis Alcapone - Cassius Clay Red Rose By Tappa Zukie, a self production.

Cassius Clay by Dennis Alcapone on the Channel One label. This issue from 1973 has nothing to do with the famous studio of the same name but is actually another Bunny Lee production

Dennis Alcapone - Cassius Clay
Errol Dunkly - Black Cinderella Two issues of Black Cinderella by Errol Dunkley on Jimmy Radway's Fe-Me-Time records from 1972 note the incorrect spelling on the red issue). The first production from Radway and a big hit that was versioned a number of times including Big Youth and The Best Big Youth, I Roy's Sound Education and Pablo's Cinderella In Black. See also part 8.

Two issues of Cassava Piece. Augustus Pablo's classic on his Hot Stuff label. This was Pablo's first version of the Baby I Love You/King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown rhythm. Augustus Pablo - Cassava Piece
Two more on Hoot Stuff. Big Youth rides the Cassava Piece rhythm and Augustus Pablo plays Frozen Dub, a cut of the Love Won't Come Easy/Frozen Soul rhythm out of Studio One. Augustus Pablo - Frozen Dub
U Roy DJ's over Wet Dream in Wet Vision. On the Explosion label for Bunny Lee in 1972.

Here Comes The Heartaches, Delroy Wilson for Bunny Lee circa 1972..

Upsetting Brothers - Wildman Street Wildman Street by The Upsetting Brothers on the Gibson Label.

Hot Bomb by I Roy. A version of Red Bum Ball on the Jump label, produced by Derrick Morgan and released in 1972.

  Alton Ellis - Loving Mood Loving Mood by Alton Ellis, a take on Dancing Mood. A Bunny Lee production on Justice Records from 1972.

Lonely Reggae by Johnnie "Dizzy" Moore And The Soul Syndicates on the obscure Mun-Dane label.

 Dizzy & The Soul Syndicates - Lonely Reggae


Updated Juyl 2006