A Reggae label; part of the Trojan group. Down Town lasted from 1968 to 1973, and issued around one-hundred-and-twenty singles in a DT-400 series. The first eighty or so were all Dandy Livingstone productions. The majority of Down Town records had a red and purple label (1), but in the last years of its life the colours changed. Roughly a dozen singles appeared on black and silver labels (2); these were followed by a similar number on black and brown labels (3) which seem to have been interspersed with pink ones. An early plain red label with the words 'DOWN TOWN' at the top had been replaced by the familiar 'halves' design by the time the fourth single came out, after which the design remained unchanged throughout. The discography below only lists 1970s releases. 'Music Master' has Trojan down as being responsible for the manufacturing as well as the distribution, but it was a case of the company getting it done rather than doing it. The three examples shown above were all pressed by Orlake - Orlake did a lot of the smaller Trojan pressings.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.