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Rita King

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Co-founder with her husband Benny of R&B Records in Stamford Hill, Rita King ran one of Britain's earliest Jamaican-music shops and flew to Kingston to license tapes, helping seed the UK's Jamaican record industry a decade before Trojan.

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Type: Person (artist, selector, producer…) →
Era: Ska and independence-era culture →
Confidence: Well supported
Sources: Hackney Museum; British Record Shop Archive; Penny Reel oral history.

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R&B Record Shop (Stamford Hill)

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British Record Shop Archive profile of Rita and Benny King's R&B Records.

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