B.B Seaton (born Harris Lloyd Seaton in Kingston, Jamaica, on 3 September 1944; died in London on 4 March 2024), also known as "Bibby", was a Jamaican reggae singer, songwriter, and record producer remembered as a member of The Gaylads, The Astronauts, Conscious Minds, and The Messengers (along with Ken Boothe, Lloyd Charmers and Busty Brown), and for his long solo career dating from 1960.
Seaton started singing and writing songs from his high school days, and grew up listening to groups like The Platters, The Drifters, The Temptations and The Four Tops to name but a few. He had his first big hit in Jamaica when teaming up with Delano Stewart and Maurice Roberts to form The Gaylads. They recorded the hit single “Lady with the red Dress” on Clement Dodd’s Studio One label in 1967. A series of hits like “You Should Never Do That”, “No Good Girl”, “Chipmunk Ska”, “Stop Making Love Beside Me”, “Love Me With All Your Heart”, “Red Rose”, “You’ll Never Leave Him”, “Africa” followed including two albums “Soul Beat” and “Gaylads Sing Folks”. At Whirl Records the band recorded tracks such as “Joy In The Morning”, and “She Want It”, Tip Top Records, “Hard To Confess”. “Over The Rainbows End”, “I Need Your Loving”, “ABC Rocksteady”, Beverley’s Records, “My Jamaican Girl”, “There’s A Fire”, “Soul Sister”, “Fire & Rain”, “We Three Kings”.
After ten years of working with companies in Jamaica like Studio One, Tip Top Records, Beverley’s Records and Treasure Isle Records as either A & R, Producer, Writer, Musician and Backing Vocalist, Seaton. decided to go solo.
In 1972 he recorded his first solo single “Accept My Apology” which was an instant hit and there was no turning back from then on. His version of Bill Withers “Lean On Me”, Persuaders, “Thin Line Between Love & Hate”, “Rainbow Love”, “One Thing Leads To Another”, “God Bless Our Love”, “Can’t Hide The Feeling”, “Sweet Caroline”, “All The Best”, “Miss My Schooldays” and “My Jamaican Girl” “Everyday People”, “Born Free”, were also hits.
He recorded more than fifteen albums, including “Dancing Shoe” (Virgin), “Thin Line Between Love & Hate” (Trojan), “Colour Is Not The Answer” (Jama), “I’m Aware Of Love”, “B.B Seaton Sings The Gaylads”, “ Wish Me Luck”, “Just One Moment”, “B.B Seaton Greatest Hits”, “In Control”, on his own (Soul Beat Label), “Everyday People” (Creole), “Pleasure And Pain” (Studio One), “Reggae Country Classics”, “Rootically Yours”, “Reggae Land” and his latest “Unbeaten”.
Seaton continued to perform into the 2010s as a member of The Gaylads. .