SKANK
The 1970s saw the brief flowering of any number of small
independent Reggae labels, the majority of which bloomed and faded unnoticed by
anybody who wasn't a Reggae lover. Skank would appear to have been
one of those labels. If catalogue numbers are a guide, it issued at
least three singles in or around 1975, using numbers in a BM-00 series; V.
Brown's 'Inflation' (BM-03; 1975), however, is the only one that googling
reveals, so the other two may not exist. Mark Griffiths writes that
the owner of the label was Valentine Brown, who co-owned the 'Saucy Boy' label
(q.v.). Thanks to Robert Bowes for the scan and for bringing the label to
my attention.
Copyright 2009 Robert Lyons.