Various Artists Soul Jazz - Studio One Groups / Various [CD]
Studio One Groups / Various
Various Artists Soul Jazz
CD
2006 release featuring legendary groups from the foundation label of Reggae. Bob Marley & the Wailers, Toots & the Maytals, the Heptones plus other talents including the Righteous Flames, the Bassies, the Royals, the Cables, the Ethiopians & more musical output from the 1960s & 70s. Studio One Groups were key of the label's success. The sweet three-part harmonies so close to the heart of Jamaican music, can be heard throughout every stylistic change of Reggae music - Ska, Rocksteady, Roots and beyond, all featured here. Includes liner notes by Rob Chapman, author of the acclaimed Studio One discography, Never Grow Old.
Tracklist:
- Mr Fire Coal Man -Wailing Souls
- Solid Foundation - Righteous Flames
- Give a Helping Hand - Gaylads
- Things a Come Up to Bump -Bassies
- You Will Never Know - the Mad Lads
- You Can't Be Happy - Clarendonians
- What Is It - the Consumates
- Happy Land - Carlton and His Shoes
- The Struggle - Viceroys
- I'll Never Grow Old - Maytals
- Get in the Groove - Heptones
- Pick Up the Pieces - Royals
- Jah Jah Go Before Us - the Gladiators
- Love and Affection - Bob Marley
- Down Presser International - the Stingers
- Baby Why - the Cables
- Owe Me No Pay Me -The Ethiopians
- The Pressure Is on - the Purpleites
- Cheating and Lying - the Silvertones