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Just added these albums to the station: The Aggrolites – Reggae Hit L.A. Always thought the Aggrolites were an acquired taste, but this album didn’t have to grow on me. Great mix of good instrumentals and smooth soulful songs.
The Slackers – Peculiar Alot of people thought this CD was a downturn for the Slackers, I disagreed. Alot of solid songs here and the Dylan remake is priceless. Deal’s Gone Bad – The Ramblers I plan on doing a review writeup on this CD. A band that never really made a blimp on my radar screen, I purchased their greatest hits album and I wasn’t impressed. They add a new singer and wow.
This CD is fantastic and I can’t wait for their next album. LONDON (AFP) — Jamaican reggae star Alton Ellis, known as the “Godfather of Rocksteady”, died overnight of cancer in London, a hospital spokeswoman said Saturday. He was 70 years old. Ellis passed away peacefully at Hammersmith Hospital, the spokeswoman said. The singer-songwriter was diagnosed with multiple myeloma last year. He underwent chemotherapy and returned to the stage before he collapsed during his final performance in central London in August. Ellis, who moved to Britain in the 1970s, had a string of hits in a career spanning more than 50 years, including “I’m Still In Love”, “Dance Crasher” and “I’m Just A Guy”.
Big Up Radio Ska has a number of Alton Ellis songs including ones with the Heptones. A true legend in the rocksteady/ska/reggae genre who had such an amazing soulful sound. “Can I change my mind” is easily one of my favorite songs of all time.
Posted by , ,. Since I’ve signed up to run the big up radio ska station about 3 months ago, I haven’t been able to find a station on the internet that has such a vast selection of ska music. There are about 1200 songs on the station that spans the last four decades. Most of the station songs are from the 60’s – I am trying to balance it out more. I’ve infused about 35 albums worth of songs from the 80’s to 2000’s. Still, if you like ska music, this is a great station, I’ve listened to it for over a year prior to me taking the reigns and I am striving to make it even better.
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Just added these albums to the station: The Aggrolites – Reggae Hit L.A. Always thought the Aggrolites were an acquired taste, but this album didn’t have to grow on me. Great mix of good instrumentals and smooth soulful songs. The Slackers – Peculiar Alot of people thought this CD was a downturn for the Slackers, I disagreed.
Alot of solid songs here and the Dylan remake is priceless. Deal’s Gone Bad – The Ramblers I plan on doing a review writeup on this CD. A band that never really made a blimp on my radar screen, I purchased their greatest hits album and I wasn’t impressed. They add a new singer and wow. This CD is fantastic and I can’t wait for their next album.
LONDON (AFP) — Jamaican reggae star Alton Ellis, known as the “Godfather of Rocksteady”, died overnight of cancer in London, a hospital spokeswoman said Saturday. He was 70 years old. Ellis passed away peacefully at Hammersmith Hospital, the spokeswoman said. The singer-songwriter was diagnosed with multiple myeloma last year.
He underwent chemotherapy and returned to the stage before he collapsed during his final performance in central London in August. Ellis, who moved to Britain in the 1970s, had a string of hits in a career spanning more than 50 years, including “I’m Still In Love”, “Dance Crasher” and “I’m Just A Guy”. Big Up Radio Ska has a number of Alton Ellis songs including ones with the Heptones.
A true legend in the rocksteady/ska/reggae genre who had such an amazing soulful sound. “Can I change my mind” is easily one of my favorite songs of all time. Posted by , ,.
Since I’ve signed up to run the big up radio ska station about 3 months ago, I haven’t been able to find a station on the internet that has such a vast selection of ska music. There are about 1200 songs on the station that spans the last four decades. Most of the station songs are from the 60’s – I am trying to balance it out more. I’ve infused about 35 albums worth of songs from the 80’s to 2000’s. Still, if you like ska music, this is a great station, I’ve listened to it for over a year prior to me taking the reigns and I am striving to make it even better. Who is listening?
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Track List: 01 Tomorrows Children - Bang Bang Rock Steady 02:13 02 The Renegades - Mr. Hops 02:44 03 Hopeton Lewis - Everybody Rocking 02:15 04 Lynn Taitt & The Jets - Why Am I Treated So Bad? Fraccionamiento vista hermosa nuevo laredo. 1 Psychedelic Train Part One 2 No Man Is An Island 3 Laugh It Off 4 Message From A Black Man 5 Hum My Song 6 Riding For A Fall 7 Slave 8 Go Bye Bye 9 The Loser 10 Born To Love You 11 Walk The Streets 12 Standing In 13 Groovy Situation 14 Been So Long-You Lied To Your Daddy 15 It's Alright (You're Just In Love) 16 Solomon 17 You've Really Got A Hold On Me 18 Sitting On Top (I Gotta Know) 19 The Girl's Alright With Me 20 Do I Worry 21 I'm Not Begging 22 Have Some Mercy 23 Tang! Festival Song 24 Long Time 25 Psychedelic Train Chapter 3. Tracklist: 01. Hopeton Lewis – Take It Easy (2:54) 02.
Roy Shirley – Hold Them (2:45) 03. Heptones – I Am Lonely (2:35) 04. The Tartans – Dance All Night (4:03) 05. Alton Ellis – Rock Steady (2:39) 06. The Jamaicans – Ba Ba Boom (3:20) 07.
Patsy & The Count Ossie Band – Pata Pata Rocksteady (3:12) 08. The Melodians – Last Train To Expo 67 (3:09) 09. Dobby Dobson – I’m A Loving Pauper (3:15) 10. Errol Dunkley – Please Stop Your Lying (2:55) 11.
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Alva Lewis – Return Home (1:48) 12. Stranger Cole & Gladdy – Just Like A River (2:39) 13. Lynn Tait & The Jets – El Casino Royale (2:40) 14. Honey Boy Martin – Dreader Than Dread (2:35) 15. The Jupiters – The Return Of Ezekial (3:14) 16.
Carlton Manning – Live And Love (3:01) 17. The Melodians – Last Train To Ecstasy (3:00) 18. Errol Dunkley – You’re Gona Need Me (2:12) 19. The Sensations – Born To Love You (3:12) 20. Hopeton Lewis – Sounds And Pressure (3:13) 21. The Techniques – You Don’t Care (2:40) 22. Pat Kelly – Little Boy Blue (2:47) 23.
The Paragons – Left With a Broken Heart (3:10) 24. The Gaylads – ABC Rocksteady (2:09) 25. The Uniques – The Beatitude (3:11) 26. Alva Lewis – Revelation (3:23) 27. Ken Parker – A Change IS Gonna Come (2:52) 28.
Val Bennett – The Russians Are Coming (3:40) 29. Derrick Morgan – The Great Musical Battle (3:35) 30. The Overtakers – The Big Take Over (2:34) 31. Lee Perry – I Am The Upsetter (3:06) 32. Keith Blake – Musically (2:22) 33. The Claendonians – Lonely Heartaches (2:14) 34.
Lynn Tait & The Jets – Napoleon Solo (2:27) 35. Desmond Dekker – Intensified (2:44) 36. The Paragons – Got to Get Away (2:00) 37. Johnny Nash – Hold Me Tight (2:44) 38. The Sensations – Long Time Me No See You Girl (2:43) 39. Stranger Cole & Gladdy – Seeing Is Knowing (3:21) 40.
Stranger Cole – Darling Jeboza Macoo (3:10). Junghans mega solar titan bedienungsanleitung. They were very much a family act with brothers Jackie and Lloyd Barnard joining forces with cousin Lloyd Kerr and, initially, the unrelated Seaford Campbell (though he dropped out after a couple of singles for Studio One). They first made the breakthrough in their homeland in 1967 with Winey Winey (an updated Reggae version is included here) cut with JJ Johnson behind the decks. Though the band recorded a few more discs for Johnson in the Rocksteady era, as the rougher Reggae groove took over they flitted between him and other producers again until another JJ production Mix It Up made a stir and was included the classic Tighten Up Trojan compilation. Though Mix It Up made waves, the Kingstonians next release was to be perhaps the one record they are remembered for. That was of course Sufferer, the title track of their only album, produced by Derek Harriott who would be a vital component in their success.
The lyric depicted the plight of the Kingston’s poor, which would have a tragic resonance given the fortunes of the band’s members fates after their success. Married to a winning tune, Sufferer kicked up a storm on both the JA and UK Reggae scenes and launched the Kingstonians to the forefront of the Reggae boom. It also featured on the second in the Tighten Up series, a key artefact in Skinhead subculture. Though not having the hits of their competitors the Pioneers, their originality saw them viewed in their homeland as the premier vocal act.
After unleashing another cracking single in Singer Man and just as the Reggae boom was beginning to falter Sufferer, the album, appeared. Like a lot of Reggae LPs issued at the time Sufferer was mostly made up of single sides in an effort to cut expenses and get the most out of previously released material. Thus it is a little bitty and uneven at times but the tracks individually are a testament to the Kingstonians’ strengths. The closely grouped backing vocals perfectly compliment the lead and the stomping rhythm tracks were stuff of boot-boy dreams. Rumble Rumble may not have had as great an impact as a single as its forebearers, but it’s a winning piece of rude Skinhead Reggae and The Clip plays to the band’s strengths – silky smooth vocals gracing an archetypal Reggae love song. Away from the singles, Complicated Scene has a great off-beat vocal line allied to nice skanking rhythms and Your Love comes with some of that “fairground” style organ that is very evocative of the times. Come We Go Moonwalk (also versioned on the only track on the original LP not to feature the Kings’ vocals Easy Ride Reggae) starts with a cracking guitar intro which gives way to a slow dancefloor killer that was almost a glance back to their Rocksteady days.
The band’s Gospel roots, which were always somewhere in the background of their vocals, show through and enhance the ballad I’ll Be Around. Though the album itself is a charming relic of the times, the vast majority of the tracks would still fill the floor at many a Reggae Revival show. The bonus offerings are not without interest either. Though producer Harriott was not on a par with Perry or Coxsone, some of the instrumental cuts here verge on primitive dub techniques and are garnished with strange echoing vocals introductions/interludes. On most of these re-cuts the band were renamed the Crystalites. Undertaker’s Burial works well with the vocal distortions adding to the spooky atmosphere and Rumble Version 2 make use of the drop-out which would quickly become a Dub trademark.
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After this album the Kingstonians’ star waned and they stuttered on until the mid-70s as a shadow of the band they once were. Band leader and song writer Jackie Barnard recorded with Lee Perry under the nom de plume of Jack Lord, but sadly he and his brother soon slid into penury and his cousin Kerr found himself a prison inmate. Jackie made an attempt to relaunch the Kingstonians in 1998, but after that failed to come to fruition he returned to the life of a sufferer in Kingston, scraping a living until he passed away in September 2014 at the age of 66. If I had one slight gripe with what is overall a fine reissue it would be that the sleeve-notes, which ably depict the Kingstonians rise and fall, don’t have much information around the album’s recording and release. Though to be fair the writer Lance Cane-Honeysett does explain that information about the group is scant at best even in the internet age and he can be commended for pulling what he did together. This aside we’re really in moonstomping heaven with sometimes sweet, sometimes impassioned voices combining with crunching rhythms to great effect, the true spirit of 69/70. All of which adds up to another quality release on the reactivated Doctor Bird label.
Tracklist: 01. Owen Gray – Farewell (2:06) 02. Owen Gray – Get Drunk (2:02) 03. Owen Gray – Lizabella (2:36) 04. Owen Gray – The Plea (3:18) 05.
Owen Gray – Twist Baby (2:29) 06. Owen Gray – Let Me Go Free (2:24) 07. Owen Gray – Grandma, Grandpa (2:12) 08. Owen Gray – Sugar Plum (2:24) 09.
Owen Gray – Millie Girl (2:59) 10. Owen Gray – Midnight Track (2:26) 11. Owen Gray – Twist so Fine (2:28) 12.
Owen Gray – Dolly Baby (1:52) 13. Owen Gray – I Love Her (2:22) 14. Owen Gray – Lonely Days (2:00) 15. Owen Gray – Jenny Lee (2:25) 16. Owen Gray – My One Desire (2:38) 17. Owen Gray – Far Love (2:33) 18. Owen Gray – Pretty Girl (2:47) 19.
Owen Gray – Time Will Tell (2:20) 20. Owen Gray – Running Around (2:12) 21. Owen Gray – Someone to Help Me (3:14) 22.
Owen Gray – Mash It!, Pt. Owen Gray – Jezebel (2:36) 24. Owen Gray – Audrey (2:05) 25.
Owen Gray – Mash It!, Pt. Owen Gray – Cutest Little Woman (2:18) 27. Owen Gray – Best Twist (2:48) 28. Owen Gray – In My Dreams (2:41) 29. Owen Gray – No Good Woman (2:26) 30. Owen Gray – I Feel Good (2:39) 31. Owen Gray – They Got to Move (2:10) 32.
Owen Gray – Patricia (2:54) 33. Owen Gray – Nobody Else (2:58) 34. Owen Gray – Mash It!
Owen Gray – Young Lover (2:34) 36. Owen Gray – Tree in the Meadow (2:42) 37. Owen Gray – On the Beach (2:33) 38.
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Owen Gray – Please Let Me Go (2:48) 39. Owen Gray – Keep It in Mind (2:24) 40. Owen Gray – Rocking in My Feet (4:10) 41. Owen Gray – Come on Baby (2:27) 42. Owen Gray – Do You Want to Jump (2:10) 43. Owen Gray – Sinners Weep (2:28) 44. Owen Gray – I’m Going Back (2:58).
Pressure Sounds deliver another mouthwatering feast of rare and unreleased recordings from the vaults of Bunny 'Striker' Lee, drawn from the peak years of the mid-seventies, when Striker ruled the musical roost in Jamaica, recording constantly, utilising the hottest session men at Dynamics and Channell One and voicing and mixing down at King Tubby's studio for that magic sound. This album digs deep to present some of that magic here, from the lively, spontaneous exuberance of Big Joe's Rasta Train to the sublime trip through Tubby's echo chamber experienced through A Wonderful Version, as well as some fascinating alternative takes of classic material from Slim Smith, Cornel Campbell, I Roy, John Holt and Eric Donaldson.
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