A Reggae label; part of the Trojan group. Song Bird started out in 1969 and just about lasted into 1973. Its singles were numbered in an SB-1000 catalogue series; numbers reached SB-1086 but several of them were not used. The majority of the singles were Derrick Harriott productions. The label design remained basically the same throughout, but couple of issues towards the end of the label's life lost the colour; the example shown comes by courtesy of Robert Bowes. The text 'Made in England' appeared on records from SBs 1054 to 1068 but was dropped from 1069 onwards. Pressing of the few singles that I have seen in the vinyl has been by Orlake, the firm that was usually responsible for manufacturing records on Trojan's subsidiary labels - if you're checking your singles look out for plus signs separating the parts of the matrix numbers in the run-off, as in 'SB+1072+A'. The rough appearance of the label's surface, with a thin smooth outer ring, is also a sign that you may be looking at an Orlake product.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.