The exceptionally influential Prince Buster “Run Man Run”, Prince Buster Label, Jamaica 1965

Fabulous & very rare "Prince Buster and the All Stars ‎– Run Man Run” Jamaica 1965.
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Prince Buster, synonymous with ska but equally important to rocksteady, is an exceptional talent on both sides of the mixing board and one of Jamaica’s the most influential reggae artists. From Judge Dread to rude reggae, Prince Buster left his imprint across Jamaica's musical landscape, both as a singer and a producer, and over 45 years after he first appeared on the music scene, Prince Buster was still making an impact.

Born Cecil Bustamente Campbell May 28, 1938, the son of a railway worker, Campbell simultaneously pursued two quite separate careers - boxing and singing. An introduction to Coxsone Dodd, not yet a producer, but at the time running a hot sound system in competition to another businessman soon to turn producer, Duke Reid, let to Dodd employing the young singer not for his vocals, but for his fists, as a security guard cum Guy Friday. By 1959, the young Buster understood the sound system business inside and out and set off on his own. He began by opening a record store, Buster's Record Shack, and then set up the Voice of the People sound system.

The next year, producing his debut single, the instrumental "Little Honey," created an immediate sensation, with a sound far removed from the American R&B swamping the sound systems. Prince Buster had basically introduced the classic syncopated rhythm of ska to a voracious Jamaican nation. Prince Buster himself made his recording debut in 1962, releasing a clutch of hits over the year. Prince Buster, as and artist and producer, was releasing so many singles that he set up two new imprints (Islam and Buster Wild Bells) to help with the overflow from his original Voice of the People label. Blue Beat, his U.K. distributor, could barely keep up with the output and over an eight-year period, he released over 600 Prince Buster productions. This works out to approximately two new singles a week produced by Buster, with two new singles of the artist's own hitting the British streets every month. A superstar in Jamaica, he was almost as big in the U.K. Hit after classic hit, a flood of seminal singles was fed into the market, many of which were rounded up on Blue Beat's I Feel the Spirit in 1963.