In the 1960s Clement ‘Sir Coxsone’ Dodd’s legendary Studio One Records laid down the template for all reggae music, the equivalent of Jamaica’s Motown Records. Artists who launched their careers there comprise an A-Z of the Jamaican music scene – Bob Marley and The Wailers, Burning Spear, Alton Ellis, Ken Boothe, Freddie McGregor, Marcia Griffiths, Horace Andy and many, many more.
In the early releases featured here you will find the roots of Studio One’s unique sound – from the first jump-up, boogie-woogie and shuffle recordings made in Jamaica in the late 1950s, as the artists emulated their American rhythm and blues idols – Louis Jordan, Roscoe Gordon, Fats Domino – through to the early Rastafari rhythms of Count Ossie, the righteous Baptist beat of Toots and the Maytals up to the joyous excitement of Ska with tracks by Studio One’s young protégées Bob Marley and The Wailers and the all-mighty Skatalites.
Track Listing
Side A
1. Basil Gabbidon – Mr. Landlord
2. Clue J And His Blues Blasters – Milk Lane Hop
3. Derrick Morgan – Wigger Wee Shuffle
4. Aubrey Adams And Rico Rodriguez – Stew Peas And Cornflakes
5. The Mello-Cat*, Count Ossie & His Warikers – Another Moses
Side B
1. Neville Esson – Wicked And Dreadful
2. Clue J And His Blues Blasters – Proof Rum
3. Derrick Morgan – Leave Earth
4. Lord Creator – Rhythm Of The Blues
5. The Jivin' Juniors – Hip Rub
Side C
1. Lascelles Perkins – Little Joe
2. Don Drummond & Roland Alphonso – Heaven And Earth
3. Owen Gray – Walk All Over
4. David Brown – Pretty Baby
5. The Maytals – He Will Provide
Side D
1. Lester Sterling And The City Slickers – Whale Bone
2. Jackie Opel – Sit Down Servant
3. Roland Alphonso – Bongo Tango
4. Bob Marley & The Wailers – Go Jimmy Go
5. Clue J And His Blues Blasters – The Slider
