HAWK
RECORDS

Independent Reggae label: Hawk Records was owned by Raymond Morrison.  Hawk operated out of premises at 243 Finchley Road, London NW3.  There don't seem to be any dates on the labels of its records but HSP-001, 'Here I Am' by Ram & Tam, is mentioned in Billboard of the 11th of March 1978 as a new release, which gives us some information about when the label started up.  Elsewhere HSP-022, Owen Grey's 'This Is Reggae' is also said to date from in 1978, while some of the singles in between have been tentatively dated to 1979.  Catalogue numbers were in the HSP-000 or HSP-0s; they reached HSP-022, but a lot of them seem either to have not been used or to have been used for HLP-prefixed 12" singles such as Ram & Tam's 'Hawk In Flight' (HLP-002; 1978). Distributed By Hawk Records. Thanks to Robert Lyons For The Info.

 
77 Ram & Tam Here I Am HAWK HSP 001
78 Ram & Tam Hawk In Flight (12") HAWK HLP 002
77 Not Traced HAWK HSP 003
77 Heptones & Lee Perry Crying Over You  HAWK HSP 004
77 Not Traced HAWK HSP 005
77 Ram & Tam  Miss Goose HAWK HSP 006
77 Tam I Want You To Love Me  HAWK HSP 007
77 Ram & Tam  Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow  HAWK HSP 008
77 Ram Tam & Jo I Need You HAWK HSP 009
77 Not Traced HAWK HSP 010
77 Not Traced HAWK HSP 011
79 Roy Shirley Diamond Ring HAWK HSP 012
77 Not Traced HAWK HSP 013
77 Not Traced HAWK HSP 014
77 Not Traced HAWK HSP 015
77 Not Traced HAWK HSP 016
77 Not Traced HAWK HSP 017
77 Not Traced HAWK HSP 018
77 Not Traced HAWK HSP 019
77 Not Traced HAWK HSP 020
78 Count Prince Miller & Tamashante  Red Red Wine  HAWK HSP 021
78 Owen Grey This Is Reggae  HAWK HSP 022



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