STUDIO ONE WOMEN - Soul Jazz Records Presents - Soul Jazz Records' classic 'Studio One Women' is now available in new one-off limited-edition coloured pressing 17th anniversary format edition! A heavyweight gatefold special edition yellow 2xLP vinyl + download.
Ska, rocksteady, funky reggae, roots, dub mixes, disco mixes, they're all here from the queens of the Jamaican music scene - Studio One Women features a wide mix of classics and obscurities from the finest female voices in reggae. Until now most of these tracks have only been available as extremely hard to find Jamaican 7 inch and 12-inch singles and even if you were lucky enough to find them, they'd cost you a small fortune.
Marcia Griffiths and Rita Marley (here with her first group The Soulettes) are two of Jamaica's most famous female singers hugely popular today. Both these artists became internationally famous as The I - Threes (with Judy Mowatt), Bob Marley's backing singers alongside The Wailers. Also featured are Hortense Ellis, sister of Alton who cut many smash hits on the island, and Jennifer Lara, a lady who had a long career with Studio One, singing on countless sides. Studio One is the greatest label in the history of reggae and is the foundation of all reggae music.
It's where virtually every world-renowned Jamaican superstar started out, Bob Marley and The Wailers included. Under the guidance of the legendary Clement Coxsone Dodd the musicians at Studio One recorded hundreds of instrumental rhythms which still provide the backbone for many of the records made in Jamaica today.
Track Listing
Side A
1. Claudette McLean - Give Love Another Try
2. Jennifer Lara - My Man
3. The Soulettes - a Deh Pon Dem
4. Della Humphrey - Dream Land
5. Jennifer Lara - Consider Me
Side B
1. Denise Darlington - War No Right
2. Hortense Ellis - I'm Just a Girl
3. Angela Prince - No Bother with No Fuss
Side C
1. Jerry Jones - There's a Chance for Me
2. The Soulettes - King Street
3. Jennifer Lara - Tell Me Where
4. The Tonettes - I'll Give It to You D
Side D
1. Marcia Griffiths - Tell Me Now
2. The Jay Tees - Come to Me
3. Angela Prince - You a Fool Boy
4. Jennifer Lara - I Am in Love
