A Reggae label from the early '70s, owned by producer and sound-system man Count Shelly. It issued more than fifty singles from 1972-75, employing a huge variety of different label colours and several different designs in the process. The first three singles had orange-yellow labels with red tops (1), and the silver-on-red (4), black-on-pink (13), red-and-orange (14) and black-on-yellow (3) types all had reasonable runs; the others seem to have been scattered around willy-nilly. One particular label was a dead ringer for the Caribbean label of 1976 (7). Some singles can be found with several different labels (5, 6; 16, 17), presumably as a result of re-pressings. Every scan except the first, the ninth and the fifteenth come by courtesy of Robert Bowes; thanks to John Timmis for the ninth. Numbering was usually in the CS-000s but at least one single was numbered in the DSK-800s - it is possible that that may be the matrix number of the Jamaican original.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.