A Reggae label, owned by Pat Rhoden, Tito Simon and Earl Martin, and associated with Jama. Love began releasing singles in 1975, in a LOV-000 series, (later LOV-0000 and LOV-00), and it managed in the region of fifty issues before expiring, which it seems to have done in or around 1977. For some reason the 'Love' on the label became 'Love Love Love' partway through 1977, though the numerical series remained unchanged (3). For most of its existence Love's singles were pressed by Phonodisc, which accounts for the injection-moulded label (1), which comes in several colours. Jama and its associated labels were given mainstream distribution by Transatlantic for a while in 1976-77. The date of the Keith Poppin single (4), with its RMJ-000 numbering, is uncertain, but it has a late '70s look to it. Googling failed to reveal the existence of any more 'RMJ' Loves, but it showed that there was a producer of those initials, at least one of whose singles came out on the Jama subsidiary Eagle - perhaps his was the company which was responsible for the Keith Poppin record. All the scans except the third and the fifth come by courtesy of Robert Bowes: the fifth was taken from an old ebay auction - it is of low quality, by at least it shows what the label was like. The discography below has several gaps in it and owes a debt to the more extensive one at Tapir's Reggae site. Thanks to Mark Griffiths for the names of the owners.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.