JACKPOT
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.