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Dawn Penn - Me Never Hold You (Let Me Go Girl) / Slim Smith - Let Me Go Girl
Striker Lee 1968
¥2980 (US$19.68)
Delroy Wilson - This Old Heart Of Mine / Till Die (Just Like A River)
Striker Lee 1969
¥1380 (US$9.11)
Derrick Morgan - Rough Rider / Augustus Pablo - Rough Rider Version
Striker Lee 1969
¥2380 (US$15.72)
John Holt - Happy Go Lucky Girl / Jah Stitch - Natty Dread Everywhere
Striker Lee 1970/ 1975
¥980 (US$6.47)
John Holt - Left With A Broken Heart / Let The Wicked Run Away
Striker Lee 1968/ 1972
¥1980 (US$13.07)
John Holt, Paragons - Memories By The Score / You Are My Number One
Striker Lee 1968
¥1980 (US$13.07)
Val Bennett - Russians Are Coming / Derrick Morgan - Great Musical
Striker Lee 1968
¥4980 (US$32.88)
Marcia Griffiths - Feel Like Jumping / Brenford Disco Set - (Pt. 2)
Soul Jazz Records UK 1968
¥2980 (US$19.68)
Various - Merritone Rock Steady 2: This Music Got Soul 1966-1967 (2LP)
Dub Store Records JPN 1966- 1967
¥5380 (US$35.53)
American rhythm & blues fervour, boosted by a multitude of sound systems playing 78rpm records on increasingly larger sets, gripped Jamaica from the late forties onwards but, towards the end of the decade, the American audience began to move towards a somewhat softer sound. The driving rhythm & blues discs became increasingly hard to find and the more progressive Jamaican sound system operators, realising that they now needed to make their own music, turned to Kingston’s jazz and big band musicians to record one off custom cut discs. These were not initially intended for commercial release but designed solely for sound system play on acetate or ‘dub plates’ as they would later be termed. These ‘specials’ soon began to eclipse the popularity of American rhythm & blues and the demand for their locally produced music proved so great that the sound system operators began to release their music commercially on vinyl and became record producers. Clement ‘Coxsone’ Dodd, Duke Reid ‘The Trojan’ and Prince Buster, who operated his Voice Of The People Sound System, were among the first to establish themselves in this new role and the nascent Jamaican recording industry now went into overdrive.
In 1954 Ken Khouri had numbered among the first far sighted entrepreneurs to produce mento records with local musicians (mento is Jamaica’s original indigenous music) before progressing to opening Jamaica’s first record manufacturing plant. Three years later he moved his operation to Foreshore Road (later renamed Marcus Garvey Drive) where, with the assistance of the inestimable Graeme Goodall, he updated and upgraded his recording studio. The importance of this enterprising move was critical to the development of Jamaican music and its influence both profound and far reaching.
Johnny, Attractions - Call Of The Drums / Leslie Butler, Count Ossie - Call Of The Drums Rhythm 2
Gay Feet / Dub Store Records JPN 1967
¥2080 (US$13.73)
Marvellous binghi rock steady masterpiece by Count Ossie led Johnny & The Attractions. An unreleased alternative instrumentalal cut on flip.
The Gaylads - It's Hard To Confess / The Gaylads - I Need Your Loving
Gay Feet / Dub Store Records JPN 1968
¥2080 (US$13.73)