TEEM

 

Another Reggae label.  Mark Griffiths writes that Teem was the British counterpart of Jah Lloyd's Jamaican label.  Most of its releases seem to have been issued only in Jamaica, but it put out at least three singles in Britain.  A couple of singles came out c.1974 with numbers in a GL-1000 series and production credited to G. Lewis.  These had white labels of a simple design (1) and the second had a large spindle hole: please note that the image shown has been cobbled together from various internet sources and is not a scan of an actual record.  GL-1003 came out on the The Thing label (q.v.), which had much the same appearance; Mark Griffiths gives a date of 1974 for that record.  'Shame And Pride' by the Diamonds was produced by Jah Lloyd himself (under his other name of Pat Francis) and had a more exotic-looking label, as can be seen above; it was issued in 1976 and had a catalogue number of PF-4273 - presumably the same as that of the original Jamaican issue.  The Diamonds signed to Virgin Records later that year, and re-recorded 'Shame And Pride' for their new company.  Tapir's Reggae Discography lists three other singles with numbers in the PF-0000s as being British releases, but the few pictures of them that I have seen on Google have a distinctly Jamaican appearance.  I have listed them in the discography below, just in case.  Thanks to Robert Bowes for the scan and for bringing the Teem label to my attention.

Copyright 2008 Robert Lyons.