A Reggae label; part of the Trojan group. Jackpot was one of Trojan's higher-profile subsidiaries. It released just under 100 singles during the period 1969-73, most of them Bunny Lee productions. Singles were numbered in a JP-700 series, and not all the numbers were used. There were four different label designs: a plain orange label for the first single (1) was immediately replaced by a more eye-catching multicoloured one (2), which is by far the most common. JP-740 had a plain black-on-pink label similar to the first, and an occasional plain label with the traditional logo can be found (3). The printing on the multicoloured JP-773 was silver, which may have been intended to improve legibility but didn't. The text 'Made in England' appeared intermittently on records from April 1971 onwards, starting with JP-765; JPs 786 to 806 lacked it, as did 808. Manufacture seems to have been generally by Orlake, as it was for most of Trojan's products at the time. The scan of the orange label was taken from ebay, while that of the light blue one comes by courtesy of Robert Bowes.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.