TABITHA
A
small independent label from Exeter. Tabitha was set up by musician
Graham Sclater as an extension of his 'Tabitha Music' record label and
publishing company. Tabitha Music seems to only have issed 12" records, of
which Colin Wilson's 'Cloudburst' LP (TAB-101; 1975) was the first, but Tabitha
issued at least four 7" records in 1977-78, the third of which was an EP by
collectable Folk group The Faraway Folk. Catalogue numbers were in a
TAB-0 series, and distribution was by Shannon. The label then seems
to have gone into hibernation for a while: TAB-5 and TAB-6 appeared in
1984, and then there was another long gap - until 1988 - for
TAB-7. The company did however place some of its products with other
labels, 'One Of Those Days One Of Those Nights' by Tramp, on Target (TGT-130;
5/77) and 'Taxi Driver' by Martin & The Brownshirts, on Lightning (GIL-507;
4/78) being cases in point. The latter appeared on the Tabitha label in
Belgium, and a number of other Tabitha records - some of them seemingly not
made available in the UK - were issued in that country. The '80s label
came in at least two different designs. The company branched out into book
publishing and is still going today.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.