A Reggae label. This Saturn was a member of the Third World family, and it operated between 1975 and 1977. All the Saturn singles were produced and / or composed by Les Cliff, who owned the label. Two label designs were used: the first, which can be found on the first two singles, was fairly basic (1), while the second (2) was more ambitious and came in the colours which are shown above. Numbering was in an SR-1000 series which seems to have started at SR-1003 for some reason, though occasionally one of the zeros was omitted (3). It reached SR-1017, but some of the later numbers weren't used. I haven't seen many Saturn singles in the vinyl, but manufacture seems to have been by Orlake in 1975-76 with Linguaphone taking over in 1977 - the 'deep bevel and small raised island around the spindle hole' combination, as show well in the fifth scan, appear to be distinctive to the latter company. Thanks to Robert Bowes for the first and third scans.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.