This is a single from my own collection, Billy Dyce singing Unity is Love (wrongly titled on the label as Undying Love) on a UK label, GG, produced by Alvin Ranglin.
Billy Dyce is great, but that`s not what I`m going to focus on today.
Former singer and TV repair man Alvin Ranglin began as a record company proprietor when he took over the running of a Jamaican label named Gloria, which had previously been owned by one of his relatives.
Subsequently, he founded three further labels, GG, Hit and Typhoon, all based in Jamaica.
Both Discogs and Wikipedia treat the London version of the GG as being basically an offshoot of the Jamaican parent company.
In truth, it was probably a subsidiary of the London-based Trojan records, who would have had had a license from Alvin Ranglin to release his output in the UK, as they did with many other Jamaican producers. Trojan are credited on the label with publishing, manufacturing and distribution of this disc.
For those who want to hear the single, I`ll post that here separately next.
Before becoming a label owner, Alvin Ranglin recorded with Vernon Buckley aka Vernon Maytone as Vern and Alvin and with Lloyd Flowers as Flowers and Alvin. You`ll find those tracks on You Tube easily enough.
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