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Jamaican record label founded by in 1965, aka Tuff Gong Records. Please credit "as on release" - see also Tuff Gong Ltd., Tuff Gong Music Ltd/Tuff Gong Music, Tuff Gong International, Tuff Gong Productions Ltd.. For the studio, please see Tuff Gong Recording Studio. Tuff Gong was originally based on Orange Street before moving to 56 Hope Road, which is now the home of the Bob Marley Museum and The Bob Marley Theatre. The company subsequently moved to 220 Marcus Garvey Drive, and includes a recording studio, mastering room, stamper room, pressing plant, cassette plant, wholesale record shop, booking agency, as well as offices for Rita Marley Music and Ghetto Youths International.
Top Tuff Gong Releases
Sub-labels
Africa Unite: The Singles Box Set
This is a Series, not a Label. Each of the 6 individual, numbered, limited-edition 7" singles contained a small colored-paper slip with details on how to claim the box used to house the set. It...
Ghetto Youths United
Third-generation Tuff Gong label spearheaded by Ziggy Marley and Stephen Marley in 1988 and currently run by Stephen and Damian Marley. AKA Ghetto Youths International.
220 Marcus Garvey Drive
Jamaica
56 Hope Road
56 Hope Road was not only the address of the Tuff Gong homebase and headquarters, but it was also its most prominent subsidiary imprint. Also credited for publishing - affiliated to ASCAP 'Fi...
Rita Marley Music
As Rita Marley assumed control of Tuff Gong in lieu of her husband (Tuff Gong co-founder and Reggae legend) Bob Marley's death in 1981, she established the secondary subsidiary, Rita Marley Music,...
Tuff Gong Recording Studio
Also known as Tuff Gong Studios, Tuff Gong Studio,Tuff Gong, Tuff Gong International Studio, Tuff Gong Recording Studios. For the label, please see [l=Tuff Gon...
Tuff Gong Music
Distribution / publishing company. Please be aware there are also Tuff Gong Music Ltd, Tuff Gong Records, Tuff Gong Records Ltd., Tuff Gong International Tuff Gong Ltd., [l=Tuf...
Tuff Gong Music Ltd
Distribution / publishing company. Please be aware there are also Tuff Gong Music, Tuff Gong Records, Tuff Gong Records Ltd., Tuff Gong International Tuff Gong Ltd., [l=Tuff Go...
Tuff Gong Records
Tuff Gong Ltd.
Publisher
Tuff Gong Productions Ltd.
Mad Squad Production Inc.
Mad Squad Productions
Contact Label
220 Marcus Garvey Drive Kingston 11, Jamaica, W.I. Tel.: 1-876-630-1LUV (1588-95) Fax: 1-876-923-4657