JSP - the initials stand for John Steadman Productions - is a London-based company, specializing in Blues (a mixture of new recordings and reissues) and historical Jazz recordings. It started life in 1978 and is still going today (2006). The vast majority of its products have been albums, and lately CDs, but the occasional single or three-tracker slipped out in the early years. These 7" records appeared in a JSP-4500 series; JSPs 4501 to 4504 were released in 1979, and 4503, Kid Thomas's 'Rockin' This Joint Tonite' was re-released in maxi-single form in 1984 as 4505 with 'Wail Baby Wail' and 'Lookie There' replacing the original 'B' side 'Cozy Lounge Blues'. The labels came in one basic design but three different colours; promos were marked with a hand-stamp (3).
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.