A Reggae label, owned by Bill and Pete Campbell. Many of Union's records were either produced by Bill Campbell or featured him or his relations; it seems to have been a stablemate to his 'BB' label (q.v.). Union singles were issued from c.1977-c.80. They came in a variety of colours and in at least three different designs; they also came in two different numerical series, with some overlap. The first releases appear to have been in the UN-1000s; these had a stylized eagle on them (1). Next came a batch with UN-000 numbers (2). Finally the UN-1000s came back, starting from UN-1001 again (3); these reached at least UN-1010, in 1980. Not all the numbers seem to have been used. In addition to the 7" singles there were also several 12" ones, which may account for some of the gaps in the discography below. Thanks to Robert Bowes for the second scan, to Charlie Chalk of the 45cat site for the third scan, and to Mark Griffiths for confirmation of the ownership details.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.