VA - Black Echoes

       Playlist

01. War In The City - Bob Andy
02. Africa - Dennis Brown
03. Frozen Soul - Lennox Brown
04. The Half - Dennis Brown
05. Famine - Junior Delgado
06. Come On In - The Heptones
07. Lonely Girl - Lenese Linton
08. Party Serenade - Lennox Brown
09. Friends And Family - Joseph Gordon
10. Girls Imagination - 15 - 16 - 17

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VA - Solid Gold from the Vaults, Vol. 3

          playlist:

	A1 Observer Allstars – Lightning And Thunder A2 Dennis Alcapone & John Holt – Togetherness A3 Dennis Alcapone – Blessed Are The Meek A4 Winston Wright – Godfather Skank A5 Harry J. All Stars – Return Of The Liquidator A6 Sir Harry (2) – Butto Down A7 Sir Harry (2) – Last Call A8 U-Roy Junior – Who Cares (Version) B1 Beverleys Allstars* – Samfie Man (Version) B2 Righteous Flames* – Run To The Rock B3 Bleechers, The – You're Gonna Feel It B4 Dave Barker (2) – Only The Strong Survive B5 Gladstone Anderson – Movie Star (Version) B6 Upsetters* – Tackio B7 Bamboo Allstars – Love Rhythm B8 Jimmy Riley – You Should Have Known
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V.A-Love Yard Style

playlist:

1. Delroy Wilson - People Are Doing It
2. Horace Andy - Beware Of A Smiling Face
3. Freddie McKay - Show & Tell
4. Freddie McKay - Oh Carol
5. Junior Tamlins - Jimmy Brown
6. Eugene Paul - Got To Have Her Next To Me
7. Keith Poppin - Moonlight
8. George Faith - Lavender Blue
9. George Faith - Since I Met You Baby
10. Pat Kelly - How Long
11. Ronnie Davis - Won't You Come Home
12. Tiger - Love Line

Produced by Bryan Thomas & Lloyd Campbell

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Rupie Edwards & Friends - Yamaha Skank (My Conversation Riddim) [1974]

     playlist:


a1 The Success All Stars - Doctor Satan Echo Chamber
a2 Shorty The President - Yamaha Skank
a3 Earl Chinna Smith - Riding With Mr Lee
a4 Shorty The President - President A Mash Up The Resident
a5 Joe White - President Rock
a6 Bongo Herman & Les Davis - Eternal Drums
b1 Slim Smith & The Uniques - My Conversation
b2 The Success All Stars - 100000
b3 Hugh Roy Junior - Doctor Come Quick
b4 Shorty The President - Half Way Tree Pressure
b5 El Cisco Delgado - Mi No Matta
b6 Tyrone Downie - Tribute To Slim Smith

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Barbara Jones - Just when i needed you most (1981)

playlist:


01- Just when i needed you
02- Why birds fly
03- The clock is ticking away
04- My love
05- You and I
06- Will it last forever
07- This loves makes me happy
08- Really want to know
09- Ooh we baby
10- True believer in love
11- Dream dream
12- My boy lollipop
13- My boy lollipop (version)
14- Teardrops

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Ronnie Davis - Wheel Of Life(197X-8X)

        Playlist :

1. Wheel Of Life
2. I And I
3. Hungry People
4. People Bawling
5. Run Come
6. No One
7. Won't You Come Home
8. Got To Get You Off My Mind
9. Walk Away Girl
10. She Used To Be My Girl
11. Everybody Needs Love
12. My Lovie Dovie
13. Do You Know
14. This Kind Of Life
15. Chasing You
16. Peace And Love
17. Go Down A De Dance
18. Ain't Got No Money
19. Loving Arms
20. Your Love
21. When I Am Gone
22. What Must I Do

Producer : Ronnie Davis & C. Danny Breakenridge & Lloyd Campbell & Patrick Sutherland & Calvin Cameron

Vocals : Ronnie Davis
Drums : Santa Davis & Style Scott
Bass : Vinton Roberts & Flabba Holt
Guitar : Bingy Bunny & Willie Lindo
Piano : Gladstone Anderson
Alto Saxophone : Dean Fraser
Trombone : Calvin Cameron
Tenor Saxophone : Dean Fraser
Trumpet : Mikey Hanson


Album style : roots, dancehall, solo vocal



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Jimmy Riley - Put The People First(1982)

          Playlist :

1. Since I Fell For You
2. Poor Immigrants
3. Sweet Sensimilla
4. Put The People First
5. Feel Free
6. Behave Yourself
7. Girls Like Dirt
8. Let Love Be Strong

Mixing Engineer : Jimmy Riley & Bob Blank & Richard Nevins
Engineer : Maxie & Soljie Hamilton

Producer : Jimmy Riley

Vocals : Jimmy Riley
Backing Vocals : The Tamlins & Ernest Wilson
Drums : Barnabas & Sly Dunbar
Bass : Robbie Shakespeare & Jackie Jackson & Lloyd Parks
Rhythm Guitar : Binky Brice & Rad Bryan & Robbie Shakespeare & Michael Chung & Bo-Peep Bowen
Lead Guitar : Binky Brice & Robbie Shakespeare & Richard Ace
Piano : Ansel Collins & Winston Wright & Richard Ace
Organ : Winston Wright
Horns : Clive Hunt & Dean Fraser & Nambo Robinson
Percussions : Skully & Sky Juice

Studios :
Recording : Channel One (Kingston, JA)
Mixing : Blank Tapes (USA)

Album style : roots, solo vocal


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Ronnie Davis - Sing Hits From Studio 1 And More(197x)

        Playlist :

1. I'm Just A Man
2. I'm Your Man
3. Fancy Make Up
4. Baby Why
5. Good News
6. Ain't That Loving You
7. Anywhere
8. What You Got To Do
9. It's Raining
10. Chasing You
11. Zion Gate
12. Dream, Dream
13. Tribal War
14. Take Heed
15. Money Never Build A Mountain
16. Every Night
17. Hard Times
18. Have Mercy
19. Got To Come Back
20. Hard To Believe
21. Kaya
22. That's Life
23. Swinging My Love
24. Tradition
25. My World

Producer : Bunny Lee

Album style : roots, solo vocal

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Poet & The Roots - Dread Beat An' Blood(1978)

           Playlist :

1. Dread Beat An' Blood
2. Five Nights Of Bleeding
3. Doun Di Road
4. LKJ feat Vivian Weathers - Song Of Blood
5. It Dread Inna Inglan
6. Come Wi Goh Dung Deh
7. Man Free
8. All Wi Doin Is Defendin

Engineer : Dennis Bovell
Mixing Engineer : Dennis Bovell

Producer : Vivian Weathers & Linton Kwesi Johnson

Vocals : Vivian Weathers & Lila Weathers & Linton Kwesi Johnson
Drums : Winston Curniffe & Jah Bunny
Bass : Vivian Weathers & Floydie Lawson
Rhythm Guitar : Floydie Lawson & Vivian Weathers
Guitar : John Varnom & Dennis Bovell
Keyboards : Desmond Craig & Dennis Bovell
Percussions : Everald Forrest & Winston Curniffe & Linton Kwesi Johnson & Jah Bunny

Studios :
Recording : Gooseburry (London, UK)
Mixing : Gooseburry (London, UK)

Album style : roots, poetry, solo vocal


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Barrington Spence - Star In The Ghetto(1982)

          Playlist :

1. Reggae Docious
2. Curly Perm
3. Star Of The Ghetto
4. Natty Kung Fu
5. Wisdom Street
6. Dance Hall Music
7. Back It Up Baby

Engineer : Eric Schilling & Chris Rutherford

Backing Band : Fatman Riddim Section

Studios :
Recording : International Sounds (Miami, USA)

Album style : roots, lovers, solo vocal


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Barrington Spence - Tears On My Pillow(1976)

           Playlist :

1. I'm A Stranger
2. It's Gonna Take A Miracle
3. This Is My Story
4. Now You Come Running Back
5. Tears On My Pillow
6. Pamela
7. Blood Of Babylon
8. Skin Flesh And Bones
9. Don't Touch I Locks
10. Everything I Own

Producer : Bunny Lee

Vocals : Barrington Spence

Album style : roots, lovers, solo vocal


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Barrington Spence - Speak Softly(1976)

        Playlist :

1. The Message
2. Speak Softly
3. Jah Jah Train
4. I've Seen You Everywhere
5. Let Locks Grow
6. Darling Dry Your Eyes
7. Children Don't Cry
8. Let's Get It On
9. Jah For All
10. Living Just A Little

Mixing Engineer : Joe Gibbs
Engineer : Errol Thompson

Producer : Tony Robinson

Backing Band : Skin, Flesh & Bones

Studios :
Randy's (Kingston, JA)

Album style : roots, lovers, solo vocal


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Hugh mike-Dance Hall Story-Corner Stone(1983)

     Playlist:


1. Dance Hall Stoey
2. Dem A War
3. Baby Father
4. They Don't Remember
5. Love Mi Empress Bad
6. Gun Shop
7. Dollars A Walk
8. Tribute To The Farmer
9. Richest Blessings
10. Highly Ethiopia 

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Delroy Williams - Darkness With Fire(1986-87)

           Playlist :

1. War A Go Stop
2. Watch Dog
3. You'll Never Know
4. Stubborn Girl
5. Long Time
6. Darkness With Fire
7. My Own Shoes
8. Over The Fence
9. Keep Loving

Engineer : Soljie Hamilton & M. Carrol

Arranger : Delroy Williams & Augustus Pablo
Producer : Augustus Pablo

Vocals : Delroy Williams
Backing Vocals : Norris Reid & Enkuli
Drums : Sly Dunbar & Clevie
Bass : Dalton Brownie & Augustus Pablo & Christopher Meredith
Rhythm Guitar : Chinna & Clive Jeffrey
Piano : Augustus Pablo
Synthesiser : Augustus Pablo
Organ : Augustus Pablo
Horns : Nambo Robinson & Dean Frazer

Album style : digital, solo vocal

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Delroy Williams - I Stand Black(1982)

        Playlist :

1. Heathen Valley
2. Mountain Top
3. Learn
4. Idrens Feel Nice
5. All The Time *
6. I Stand Black
7. Crucial
8. Think Twice *
9. I Am Leaving This Town *
10. This Love *
11. Fox Hole
12. Jah Childrens Love
13. Little Less Talking
14. Your Mind *
15. Babylon Boy

Comment :
recorded 1977-82

Album style : dancehall, solo vocal



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Winston Hussey - Yuh Face Look Good(198x)

        Playlist :

1. Broadway Reggae
2. Which One A We You Want
3. Dancehall Fever
4. Lazy Lover
5. Yuh Face Look Good
6. They Don't Have No Feeling
7. Bury The Sound Boy
8. She Give Me Love

Producer : George Phang

Mixing Engineer : Michael Riley

Vocals : Winston Hussey
Backing Band : The Taxi Gang
Drums : Sly Dunbar
Bass : Robbie Shakespeare

Album style : dancehall, solo vocal



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Interns-Detour(1979)

       Playlist:

A1		Send Us
A2		Consider Yourself
A3		Detour
A4		Jah Oh Jah
A5		Nothing Is Impossible
B1		Get To Know
B2		Do We Have To Fight
B3		Yah Ho
B4		Sing A Good Song

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Sonia Spence - Pure Love(198x)

        Playlist : 

1. Pure Love
2. Tonight
3. Love Won't Let Me Wait
4. Since I Met You Baby
5. I Love You
6. For Your Love
7. Look Through The Window
8. I Belong To You
9. Jet Plane

Producer : C. Reid

Mixing Engineer : Mervyn Williams
Engineer : Mervyn Williams & Christopher Daley

Vocals : Sonia Spence
Backing Vocals : The Tamlins & Orville Woody Wood
Drums : Carl Ayton
Bass : Ranchie
Guitar : Gibby Collins & Willie Lindo & Lloyd Willis & Leebert Gibby Morrison
Organ : Gibby Collins
Trumpet : Arnold Breckenridge
Trombone : Calvin Cameron
Saxophone : Headley Benett
Percussions : Alvin Haughton

Studios :
Mixing : Aquarius (Kingston, JA)

Album style : dancehall, solo vocal


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Sonya Spence - In The Dark(197x)

            Playlist :

1. Jet Plane
2. It Hurts To Be Alone
3. I Love You So
4. Damn Him
5. Make Love To Me In The Dark
6. No Charge
7. Peace And Unity
8. When
9. Why Did You Leave Me
10. Give Thanks

Producer : Sonia Pottinger
Arranger : Rad Bryan & Sonia Pottinger

Remixing Engineer : Errol Brown
Recording Engineer : Errol Brown

Vocals : Sonia Spence
Backing Vocals : Marcia Griffiths & Judy Mowatt
Drums : Sly Dunbar
Bass : Ranchie
Guitar : Rad Bryan
Piano : Ansel Collins
Organ : Ansel Collins
Horns : Vin Gordon & Herman Marquis & Tommy McCook

Studios :
Recording : Treasure Isle (Kingston, JA)

Album style : roots, solo vocal



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Chaka Demus & Pliers Meets Shaba Ranks and Friends (199X)

      Playlist

01 - Gal Wine - Chaka Demus & Pliers
02 - Monkey Skank - Chaka Demus
03 - Can't Test Me - Chaka Demus and Pliers
04 - Terror - Chaka Demus and Spana Banner
05 - Terror (Version) - Chaka Demus and Spana Banner
06 - Shock Out - Chaka Demus
07 - Uno Fi Move - Shaba Ranks
08 - Send Fi Josie - Josie Wales
09 - Gal You Hot - Red Dragon
10 - Jump Up - Red Dragon
11 - Bus Them Shut - Johnny Osbourne
12 - Wha Them a Do - Ninga Man
13 - Counteraction - Ninga Man
14 - Matey Fret - Sister Charmaine
15 - Bad Boy Skank - Peter Metro
16 - Gal Pickney - Frankie Paul


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Yabby U - Jah Jah Way(1980)

          Playlist :

1. Jah Jah Way
2. Stop Your Quarreling
3. Free Africa
4. Yabby You & Trinity - Jah Vengeance - Jah Bible
5. Lady Lady
6. I Feel Lonely
7. Yabby You & Clint Eastwood - Ballistic Dread Locks - Hitster
8. Chalice Specialist
9. Dread Locks Man

Mixing Engineer : Scientist & Yabby You & King Tubby & Prince Jammy
Engineer : Crucial Bunny & Maxie

Producer : Yabby You

Vocals : Yabby You
Backing Vocals : Earl Sixteen & Alric Forbes & The Gladiators & Veronica Douglas & Tony Tuff
Drums : Santa Davis & Sly Dunbar & Fish Clarke
Bass : Clinton Fearon & Robbie Shakespeare
Guitar : Bo Peep & Albert Griffiths & Alric Forbes
Keyboards : Winston Wright & Augustus Pablo & Ansel Collins
Horns : Bobby Ellis & Deadly Headly & Herman Marquis & Tommy McCook
Percussions : Barnabas & Sticky & Skully & Sky Juice & Bongo Herman

Studios :
Recording : Channel One (Kingston, JA)
Mixing : Aquarius (Kingston, JA)

Album style : roots, solo vocal


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Yabby You - One Love, One Heart(1983)

       playlist:

1 Deliver Me from My Enemies

2 Antichrist

3 Run Come Rally
4 Babylon Gone Down
5 Chant Down Babylon
6 Judgement Time
7 Carnal Mind
8 Fire, Fire
9 Conquering Lion
10 One Love, One Heart

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Yabby You - Fleeing From The City(1985)

           Playlist :

1. Praise Jahovia
2. Fire Deh A Mus Mus Tail
3. Fleeing From The City
4. Integrity Of The Upright
5. Sat Up On The Gully
6. Stranger To My Bredrin
7. Love Me Love Me Girl
8. Hungry Belly A De New Stylee
9. Acting Strange
10. Let Us Repatriate

Producer : Yabby You

Backing Band : The Gladiators

Studios :
Channel One (Kingston, JA) & Tuff Gong (Kingston, JA)

Album style : roots, solo vocal


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Yabby You - Chant Down Babylon Kingdom(1976)

         Playlist :

1. Walls Of Jerusalem
2. Chant Down Babylon Kingdom
3. See Them A Walk
4. King Pharoah
5. Sufferation
6. Black Man's Land
7. Jerusalem In Dub
8. Historians Dub
9. Theodore Dub
10. Ainash Nubia Dub
11. Shimezana Region In Dub
12. Untitled (Aka Black Man's Land)

Producer : Yabby You

Mixing Engineer : King Tubby & Pat Kelly
Recording Engineer : Errol Thompson

Vocals : Yabby You
Drums : Santa Davis & Sly Dunbar
Bass : Lloyd Parks & Robbie Shakespeare
Guitar : Wire Lindo
Lead Guitar : Chinna
Rhythm Guitar : Chinna
Organ : Wire Lindo & Ansel Collins
Piano : Touter Harvey
Flute : Tommy McCook
Tenor Saxophone : Tommy McCook

Studios :
Recording : Channel One (Kingston, JA) & Joe Gibbs (Kingston, JA)
Mixing : King Tubby's (Kingston, JA)
Voice Recording : King Tubby's (Kingston, JA)

Album style : roots, solo vocal


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Yabby U - African Queen(1980)

          Playlist :

1. African Queen
2. African Version
3. Beirut Massacre
4. Darker Shade Of Black
5. Fish And Bread
6. Ackee And Bammy
7. Get Lost Babylon
8. Nippon Skank

Producer : Yabby You

Album style : roots, dub, solo vocal

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Yabby You - Beware(1978)

   Playlist :


Beware
Deliverance
Prophets
Feel All Right
Praises
Peace
Give Praises
Together
Plague
Freedom

 Album style : roots, dub


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The Yabby You Vibration - Deliver Me From My Enemies(1977)

         Playlist :


Deliver Me From My Enemies
Judgement Time
Blood Ago Run Down King Street
Love In Zimba
Zion Gate
Everlasting Life *
Lonely Me
Take My Hand (Aka Stranger In Love)
Pound Get A Blow
Pick The Beam
And Amlak (One God)
Economical Crisis *

Album style : roots, solo vocal


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Vivian Jackson - Ram A Dam(1976)

        Playlist :

1. Beyond The Hills
2. Conquering Lion
3. Regular Rock
4. Work Without Pay
5. Covetiousness
6. Jah Love
7. Dem-A-Wolf
8. Rally Round Jahovah
9. Carnal Mind
10. Jah Vengeance

Producer : Yabby You

Mixing Engineer : King Tubby

Vocals : Yabby You
Drums : Horsemouth Wallace
Bass : Family Man
Rhythm Guitar : Chinna
Lead Guitar : Chinna
Organ : Family Man
Piano : Augustus Pablo
Saxophone : Tommy McCook
Trumpet : Bobby Ellis
Flute : Tommy McCook
Congos : Yabby You

Studios :
Recording : Channel One (Kingston, JA) & Dynamic Sounds (Kingston, JA) & Harry J (Kingston, JA)
Mixing : King Tubby's (Kingston, JA)

Album style : solo vocal, roots


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King Tubby & Yabby You - Time To Remember(1982)

         Playlist :

1. Bad Boy Lesson
2. Rockfort War
3. King Tubbys Sound
4. Ruff In A Firehouse
5. Jah Mercies
6. They Dont Want Me
7. Gunman Secret
8. South Africa
9. A Yard Is Not A Yard
10. Pharaoas Plague

Mixing Engineer : King Tubby & Scientist & Soljie Hamilton

Producer : Yabby You

Drums : Sly Dunbar
Bass : Robbie Shakespeare
Rhythm Guitar : Clinton Forbes
Lead Guitar : Alric Forbes
Organ : Pablo Black
Piano : Augustus Pablo
Saxophone : Tommy McCook
Trumpet : Tommy McCook

Studios :
Recording : Channel One (Kingston, JA) & King Tubby's (Kingston, JA)
Mixing : Channel One (Kingston, JA) & King Tubby's (Kingston, JA

Album style : roots, dub

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Barbara Jones - Don't Stop Loving Me(1979)

          Playlist :

1. Don't Stop Loving Me
2. The Kiss
3. Personal Belongings
4. Dream Dream
5. Never Let Me Go
6. Johnny Tell Me What To Do
7. If I Had My Way
8. Sad Movies
9. Tear Drops
10. Breaking Up

Mixing Engineer : Sylvan Morris
Engineer : Maxie & Crucial Bunny

Producer : Alvin Ranglin

Vocals : Barbara Jones
Backing Band : The Revolutionaries
Drums : Sly Dunbar
Bass : Robbie Shakespeare
Rhythm Guitar : Rad Bryan
Lead Guitar : Rad Bryan
Guitar : Michael Chung & Winston Wright
Organ : Ansel Collins
Piano : Gladdy Anderson & Theo Beckford
Saxophone : Tommy McCook
Trumpet : Bobby Ellis
Horns : Headley Benett
Tenor Saxophone : Don D. Junior
Alto Saxophone : Herman Marquis
Percussions : Sticky

Studios :
Recording : Channel One (Kingston, JA)
Mixing : Harry J (Kingston, JA)
Voice Recording : Harry J (Kingston, JA)

Album style : lovers, solo vocal


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