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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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Era: Ska and independence-era culture →
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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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Story · Well supportedPre-release and the counter: how UK shops broke Jamaican records

Britain's specialist shops were reggae's second engine.