RECORDS
Independent Reggae label: Sunbeam Records issued at least sixeen singles, with varying label designs, from 1973-1976; catalogue numbers go up to SB-25 but some of them seem not to have been used. Bill Farley produced most of the Sunbeam singles, so it seems a fair bet that the label was his; that Laurel Aitken, who used the 'Sunbeam Music' credit on some of his releases, may have been one of the forces behind the label in the beginning - and indeed Aitken produced the first single shown. For most of the time catalogue numbers were in an SB-000 numerical series, though one of the zeroes was dropped on occasions. The first single had a rather plain-looking label; the red-and-yellow type was used for paper-labelled records from SB-002 to SB-011. Some issues were injection moulded, and were pressed by Phonogram or Polydor; on a couple of these the label name is given as 'Sunbeam B'. In early 1975 Sunbeam appears to have joined the Phonogram family, apparently for only a short time; the only record that I have seen which was released during this period was numbered in the 6121-600s, and had an injection-moulded label. 1976 saw the introduction of a different logo, with a '3-D' font, which was in use by the time SB-016 came out. In the midst of all the Reggae singles is a solitary EP by what looks like a Club / Cabaret band, Cascade, which is somewhat odd: it has a slightly different prefix, SBOO, the second 'O' of which may be a misprint for zero. Distributed By Sunbeam Records. Thanks to Robert Lyons For The Info.
| 73 | Black Gorilla | Memories Of Bob Marley | SUNBEAM | SB | 001 |
| 73 | Lloyd Dexter And The Rowbusters | Sons Of Israelite Fathers | SUNBEAM | SB | 002 |
| 73 | Tiger | Jenny | SUNBEAM | SB | 003 |
| 73 | Madame Dracula | Big Ten | SUNBEAM | SB | 004 |
| 73 | Not Issued | SUNBEAM | SB | 005 | |
| 73 | No Artist Listed | Basement Rock | SUNBEAM | SB | 006 |
| 73 | Jesse Green | Hurricane Woman | SUNBEAM | SB | 007 |
| 74 | Honeyboy | Let'S Talk It Over | SUNBEAM | SB | 008 |
| 74 | Little Joy & The Firef | Shoorah Shoorah | SUNBEAM | SB | 009 |
| 74 | Cascade | I Don'T Know How To Love Him | SUNBEAM | SB | 0010 |
| 74 | The Gospel Train | Bye And Bye | SUNBEAM | SB | 011 |
| 74 | Not Issued | SUNBEAM | SB | 012 | |
| 74 | Not Issued | SUNBEAM | SB | 013 | |
| 74 | Little Joy | April Fool | SUNBEAM | SB | 014 |
| 74 | Tribe | Dread Locks No Eat Dat | SUNBEAM | SB | 015 |
| 74 | Warriors | Release Your Daughter | SUNBEAM | SB | 016 |
| 74 | Little Joy Mack | The Way We Were | SUNBEAM | SB | 017 |
| 74 | Locks-Lee | Hush Baby Don'T Cry | SUNBEAM | SB | 018 |
| 75 | Little Joy | My World Is Empty | SUNBEAM | SB | 019 |
| 76 | Racky Delvar And The Girls | Living In The City | SUNBEAM | SB | 020 |
| 76 | Not Issued | SUNBEAM | SB | 021 | |
| 76 | Not Issued | SUNBEAM | SB | 022 | |
| 76 | Not Issued | SUNBEAM | SB | 023 | |
| 76 | Winston Francis | Sitting In The Park | SUNBEAM | SB | 024 |
| 76 | Guardian Angel | Eighteen Thirty Six | SUNBEAM | SB | 025 |
| 75 | Jesse Green | Go Away Dream | SUNBEAM | 6121 | 600 |
