Listen Lord Laro “Progress and Prosperity”- rare calypso classic from the calypso legend
Friday 26 June 2015
Rare calypso classic from the legend Lord Laro “Progress and Prosperity”
Listen Lord Laro “Progress and Prosperity”- rare calypso classic from the calypso legend
Sunday 14 June 2015
Delroy Wilson “Love Got Me Doing Things” Faith Label, 1970s
LISTEN♫ here https://youtu.be/tpMnoXVWi8s
Delroy Wilson was one of Jamaica's most soulful vocalists, and over a 40-year career the singer unleashed a flood of hits and a multitude of masterpieces. Born on October 5, 1948, in the Kingston neighborhood of Trenchtown, Wilson's phenomenal talent would be his ticket out of the ghetto, and his discovery by producer Coxsone Dodd in 1962 would change the path of Jamaican music.
Jah Thomas "Come Nurse” - Sonia Pottinger, High Note, Jamaica 1978
Listen here https://youtu.be/_D5zIiMU2YQ
Jah Thomas was an important figure on the Jamaican music scene during both the roots era of the '70s and the subsequent dancehall decade of the '80s. One of the island's top producers for both singers and DJs. Many of these sides found their way to the dub studios of King Tubby, who transformed a wealth of Thomas' rhythms into a some of the best dub tracks to emerge from Jamaica.
Born Nkrumah Thomas in Kingston in 1955, Jah Thomas’ story begins with the legendary Channel One studio, where the aspiring DJ first cut tracks as one of a crew of young chatters in the mold of innovators like U-Roy, Big Youth, and Dillinger.
Working off his Channel One success, Thomas followed his fellow chatters in cutting sides for Joe Gibbs and Errol Thompson at their 16-track studio on Retirement Crescent (the studio tandem -- also known as the Mighty Two -- were at the height of their success at this time, recording such DJ smashes as Trinity's "Three Piece Suit and Thing" and Prince Far I's "Under Heavy Manners").
Joining the ranks of contemporary dancehall knob twiddlers of the late '70s and early '80s like Henry "Junjo" Lawes, Linval Thompson, Gussie Clarke, and Winston Riley, Thomas began making his presence felt as a producer with sessions for both DJs and singers.
Like many of Jamaica's most important and talented musical men and women, Jah Thomas will probably not become as well-known and celebrated as, say, Lee Perry, Tubby, or Duke Reid, but his place in reggae's cannon can't be denied as one of the handful of producers who helped steer reggae out of it's first roots period into the modern dancehall era of the '80s and early '90s, the effects of which are still in evidence as reggae moves into the new millennium.
Fabulous roots monster Earl Sixteen "Reggae Sound" - Dread At The Controls, Jamaica, 1980
LISTEN♫ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu1ngORjxr8
Born Earl Daley, 1958, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. After winning local talent shows, Daley joined the group Flaming Phonics as lead vocalist before voicing the self-penned ‘Malcolm X’ for Joe Gibbs in 1975, later covered by Dennis Brown.
In 1977 Daley became a member of the Boris Gardiner Happening who introduced him to Lee Perry at the Black Ark. There he recorded four tracks in 1978/9 and met Earl Morgan of the Heptones, who produced his debut album, Singing Star. His next collection was for the radio disc jockey and DATC producer Mikey Dread, although there were singles for Augustus Pablo (‘Changing World’), Linval Thompson, Derrick Harriott and others, released throughout the early 80s, including an excellent set for former Stur-Gav duo Ranking Joe and Jah Screw. By 1982/3 he was at Studio One where his third version of ‘Love Is A Feeling’ was recorded. The Brentford Road sessions resulted in Coxsone Dodd’s Showcase album of 1985.
Since then he has appeared on tracks by Dread Zone and Leftfield. He made his major label debut in 1997 with Steppin’ Out for WEA Records.
Freddie McKay “Picture on the Wall” a perennial rocksteady favourite, Coxsone, Jamaica, 1971
LISTEN♫ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iko6AS3ZChs
Rocksteady singer Freddie McKay worked with Jamaica's top reggae producers Duke Reid, Coxsone Dodd, and Prince Buster. Born in the late '40s in St. Catherine, Freddie McKay recorded for the Studio One and Treasure Isle labels, working with studio bands the Revolutionaires, the G.G. Allstars, and the Soul Defenders, with whom McKay cut "Picture on the Wall" (his biggest hit), which remains a perennial favourite on ska and rocksteady compilations decades later.
Dorothy Russell “You’re the One I Love” wonderful Duke Reid thriller from 1973
Commonly referred to as one of the queens of Jamaica, Dorothy Russell is one of the ladies who made reggae. LISTEN♫ http://bit.ly/1CB7NW3
George Tucker “Woman of the Stump”, George Tucker & The Dust Label, Jamaica
LISTEN♫ https://youtu.be/adqUdtKtNtY
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