Merritone

There is some incorrect info in the bio of Merritone above: The handful of 1970s Merri Disc and Merritone Ltd. records are Winston Blake productions. Blake ran the Merritone sound system (sometimes Merritone Discotheque) out of Morant Bay before moving to Kingston in the early 1960s. It is to this day the longest-running sound system in Jamaica. There has long been confusion around the Merritone name. Ken Khouri took the name in 1966 for a new Federal Records subsidiary, but Winston Blake, who was by then running his sound system in Kingston, had nothing to do with Khouri's label. But the handful of 1970s records show Blake as the producer, in Jamaica, not the US. The Khouris folded up Federal in the early 1980s, sold their facility at 220 Marcus Garvey Drive to the Marley family, and moved to the US.

A related bit of incorrect info. Sam Mitchell and Keith Scott were employees of Federal Records, working in the vinyl pressing plant or the print shop. Khouri sent them out as talent scouts, and they are the ones who brought Hopeton Lewis back to Federal to record. But they had nothing to do with the producing or arranging of the recordings. That was Lynn Taitt (and perhaps Ernie Ranglin, so claims the latter. Ranglin was, in fact, living in Jamaica in 1966, when the Hopeton Lewis songs that made up "Take It Easy" were recorded, so it is possible).