A Reggae label, run by Buster Pearson. ATA issued at least seven 7" singles and one 12" in 1977-78; it added another 12" in 1979 and one more in 1981, but that seems to have been the lot. Catalogue numbers of the 7" records were in an ATA-1000 series. Marketing of the first release was by K & B (q.v.); by the time of the third the marketing credit had changed to ATA. Four different label designs were used: ATAs 1001 and 1003 had blue-green labels (1); 1002 and 1005 had red ones with a shadowed logo (2); 1010 and 1013 had red ones with white circles and an oval logo (3); while 1008 had a white one with the oval logo in red. Thanks to Robert Bowes for the scan of the red labels, and to Mark Griffiths for the ownership information.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.