A Reggae label. Wisdom was far more prolific in its native Jamaica than it was in Britain, but it did put put a couple of singles here, both of them in the second half of 1978. First out of the traps, numerically speaking, was Dandy Livingstone's 'Six And Seven Books' b/w 'Sojourn Feeling' (NOR-501); the next was 'This Ya Stormy Weather' b/w 'Weather Man' by Tony Tuff (NOR-504). The NOR prefix appears to be the result of a link-up with Livingstone's 'Night Owl Records' (q.v.) - Night Owl got a marketing credit on the label of his record, alongside Plastic Fantastic (q.v.), a company which for three or four years handled an interesting variety of small labels as well as its own marques. The Tony Tuff has a lower matrix number than the Dandy Livingstone, WM-17 as against WM-18, which is slightly odd, but there you go. Those two singles seem to have been Wisdom's only UK releases, though with 1978 being a year in which Reggae companies started to lean in favour of 12" singles there may perhaps be one or two Wisdoms out there in that format. As yet I haven't stumbled across any while googling, and my search for Wisdom appears to be coming to a sticky end; a case of Seventies Sevens imitating life. Thanks to Charlie Chalk of the 45cat site for permission to use his scan here.
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