FIGHT
A Reggae label, owned by
Larry Lawrence and thus a stalemate of his Ethnic and Reggae labels
(q.v.). The first incarnation of Fight operated in 1974 and
1975. What I would guess to be the first Fight Single, 'Kung Fu'
(Parts 1 and 2) by Jah Martin (ETH-18; 1974), had a
catalogue number that was borrowed from Ethnic's series, but subsequent Fights were numbered in the FT-000s or FT-00s. For some reason the odd numbers seem not have been used. The label design remained basically
the same throughout, with the blue colour varying, but a picture of a head appeared on releases from FT-008 onwards (2). Fight was merged with another of Lawrence's labels, Ethnic, in 1975 to become Ethnic
Fight (q.v.). The constituent parts of Ethnic Fight separated in or around
1978, but they concentrated on 12" singles from that point onwards and
their second incarnations are therefore beyond the scope of this site. The only
Fight single that I have seen in the vinyl, FT-002, was pressed by British Homophone. Thanks to John Timmis for the second scan.
Copyright 2006 Robert
Lyons.