Jamaican Serenades Vol 44

Here's the story , A Long time ago on a message board a discussion was raised regarding great instrumental Reggae ,who liked what etc from that came the first Jamaican Serenade compilation ,this was followed by other users' compilations & I did my first at Vol 15 (on here) it looks like the series has more or less died now but here is my last attempt Vol 44.

Just for a bit of fun ,let me know if you can tell which Producer produced most tunes on this Volume

01 - Babylon Special - Azul
02 - In The Mood - Winston Wright
03 - Bionic Man - Ansell Collins
04 - Violin Rock - The Fiddlers
05 - United Rock - Bullwackies All Stars
06 - Rigor Mortis - The Revolutionaires
07 – Yard Song – Massive Horns
08 - Give Me Some More - Studio Sound
09 - President Rock - Joe White
10 - Hot Dog - Love Generation
11 - Hold Pon Dem - Brother Dan All Stars
12 - Wappadusa - Greyhound
13 - Ringo Rock - Soul Vendors
14 - One Wife Version - The Crystalites
15 - Preaching Love - Music Doctors
16 - Eight Years After - Tommy McCook
17 - Djambala - Dirty Harry & Bobby Ellis
18 - Dub Master - Organ D
19 - Dedication Rock - Harold Butler

20 - Meditation Dub - Augustus Pablo

http://www.mediafire.com/?y1yqibrkizxjr15

Grooving Away

It’s Random compilation time again so let’s hope this gets you “Grooving Away” .
There’s Ska from around 1964 from Charlie Organaire & from the Ska Kings who are actually Byron Lee & The Dragonaires with Eric Morris on lead vocal but listen out for Toots Hibbert on background vocals you can hear his voice soaring above everyone just after the instrumental break.
Johnny & The Attractions treat us to some sublime rocksteady & Lloyd Charmers recuts Sir Collins Rocksteady as Dread Man Special you’ll find some DJ cuts (of course!!) some Lovers Rock from Ginger Williams and some nice vocals from two Campbells , Al & Cornel right up to some Roots from Half Pint from around 1985.

01 - Something Special - Prince Williams
02 - Let Him Try - John Brown
03 - Jah Don't Love That - Half Pint
04 - Locks - Prince Francis
05 - Dread Man Special - Lloyd Charmers
06 - I'm Moving On - Johnny & The Attractions
07 - Oil In My Lamp - The Ska Kings
08 - Little Village - Charlie Organaire
09 - Chastise Them - Winston Sinclair
10 - I Wish Your Picture Was You - Prince Buster
11 - Shock Resistance - Baba Brooks
12 - The Rooster - Jeff Barnes
13 - In My Heart There's A Place - Ginger Williams
14 - Walk Through This World - Phyllis Dillon
15 - Grooving Away - Impact All Stars
16 - Baby Why - Jazzbo & The Cables
17 - Pride & Joy - Cornel Campbell
18 - Uncle Charlie - U Roy Jnr
19 - I Will Follow You - Al Campbell
20 - The Greatest Race - Roy Shirley

Re Upped 05-11-12
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Pressures

Pressures, Hard Times, Sufferation, Troubles ,Worries, Problems , Struggles all subjects covered by Jamaican Artists. This compilation includes quite a few different view points just don't get too depressed!!!

01 Pressure Rock – Captain Sinbad
02 Keep It Down – Ruddy Thomas
03 Pressure – Boy Wonder
04 Time Hard – George Dekker
05 Things Not Easy – Meditations
06 Hard Times – Calman Scott
07 Bitterness Of Life – Bruce Ruffin
08 My Sweat Turns To Blood – The Royals
09 Time Tough – Toots & The Maytals
10 Money Is Hard To Come By – Tito Simon
11 The Pressure Is Coming On – Greyhound
12 Sufferers Child – Delroy Denton
13 No Justice For The Poor – Santic
14 Can’t Stand The Pressure – Aswad
15 It’s hard For a Dread – Jimmy Lindsay
16 Life Is Not Easy – Trinity
17 Life Is Not Easy – Anthony Johnson
18 Suffering So – The Heptones
19 What A Struggle – Prince Hammer
20 Breaking Down The Pressure – Congo Ashanti Roy

Re Upped 29-5-12
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Ska Beat - R & B

This is another collection of tracks compiled by myself & Gabriel Hirsch showcasing the Ska Beat & it's earlier encarnation R&B (from Rita & Benny rather than Rhythm & Blues!!) with some great early artists such as .....

01 - Naomi & Clive - What Can I Do
02 - The Maytals - Love Divine
03 - The Dreamlets - Really Now
04 - Shenley Duffus - Big Mouth
05 - Dizzy Johnny & The Studio One Orchestra - Sudden Destruction
06 - Derrick Morgan & Naomi - Heart Of Stone
07 - Delroy Wilson - Squeeze Your Toe
08 - C. Hyman - The Ska Is Movin' On
09 - Cynthia & Archie - Every Beat
10 - Winston Samuels - Jericho Wall
11 - Winston Stewart - But I Do
12 - The Gaylads - Whap Whap
13 - The Maytals - Hurry up
14 - Winston Givans - Moving On
15 - Winston Samuels - Be Prepared
16 - Lord Tanamo - Night Food Ska
17 - Dimples & Delroy - Sugar Pie
18 - Delroy Wilson - Don't Believe Him
19 - C. Hyman - The Ska Rhythm
20 - Jackie Opel - Done With a Friend

http://www.mediafire.com/?8ts1gbu69652009

War & Peace

It's not Tolstoy its a selection of tunes which give us an idea of the unrest in JA in the seventies and a feel for the hope which the end of "Tribal War" would bring

01 NO TRIBAL WAR – JAH LLOYD
02 TURN IN YOUR GUNS – BLAKE BOY
03 PEACE TALK – RICKY GRANT & ROMAN STEWART
04 TRIBAL WAR –LITTLE ROY
05 PEACE – THE GLADIATORS
06 WAVE OF WAR – JOE HIGGS
07 WAR IN CITY – BOB ANDY
08 PEACE CAN SOLVE IT – I ROY
09 WAR NO RIGHT – DENISE DARLINGTON
10 STOP THE WAR – DILLINGER
11 WAR IS OVER – FREDDIE MCKAY & JAH LLOYD
12 WAR – THE WAILING SOULS & RANKING TREVOR
13 WAR ZONE – I ROY
14 TRIBAL WAR – JOHN HOLT
15 PEACE AT LAST – BIG YOUTH
16 WAR – WINSTON JARRETT & THE RIGHTEOUS FLAMES
17 PEACE & LOVE – THE ROYALS
18 TRIBAL WAR – U BROWN
19 WAR – BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS
20 NO MORE TRIBALISM – U ROY

Re Upped 05-11-12
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Jamaican Serenades Vol 38

I little out of sequence (I've already put Vol 43 up here) but another set of fine instrumentals from Ska to Rockers

01 I’m Free – Charles Ross Reggae Combo
02 Drum Song Style – Roland Alphonso
03 Way Over Yonder – Vin Gordon
04 Going West – The Undivded
05 Distant Drums – Family Man
06 Pharoah’s Walk – Exodus
07 Short Circuit – Ansell Collins
08 Soul For Sale – The Cimerons
09 Sounds Familiar – Lloyd Charmers
10 He’s Gone Ska – Edwards All Stars
11 Poison On Beeston Street – Busters All Stars
12 Cast Off – Baba Brooks
13 Deltone Special – The Soul Rhythms
14 Blow Mr Hornsman Blow – Val Bennett
15 Archie – Tommy McCook
16 Iron Sound – Lester Sterling
17 Ginza – Johnny Moore
18 After Hours – Dean Fraser
19 Seven Seal – Lloyd Brevette & The Skatalites
20 Brain Mark – Jackie Mittoo

http://www.mediafire.com/?ho09s2mjo2pkizl

The Groovemaster

Contrary to what Lee Perry said on record( “Dreader Locks”) Prince Tony is NOT a phoney admittedly he did a successful version of Lee’s “Curly Locks” included here as “Let Locks Grow” ,but he had some tunes of his own a few of which you can sample here. Tony seems to have had a few of the big name DJ’s through his doors along with “Big Name” vocalists like Delroy Wilson & Gregory Isaacs

01 TAKE IT EASY WITH SIX -----KEITH "Poppin" SMITH
02 MOTHER YOU ARE OLD - YOUNG ALCAPONE
03 MY GIRL ----BUNNY BROWN
04 MY LITTLE FILLY ---- WINSTON SCOTLAND
05 ANY MAN CAN BE A FOOL - MAX BROWN
06 MAJESTY IN BED ---- DENNIS ALCAPONE
07 LA AL LA AT THE END --- NORMAN BROWN
08 NIGHT OWL ---LEE & THE CLARENDONIANS
09 FINE STYLE – DENNIS ALCAPONE
10 TIP FROM THE PRINCE – I ROY
11 PAPA DO IT SWEET – LLOYD YOUNG & PATSY
12 FAT BEEF SKANK – YOUNG DILLINGER
13 FREE FROM CHAINS – PRINCE JAZZBO
14 FLY LITTLE SILVER BIRD – GREGORY ISAACS
15 DREADLOCK DREAD FESTIVAL – BIG YOUTH
16 LET LOCKS GROW – BARRINGTON SPENCE
17 HOUSE OF DREADLOCKS – BIG YOUTH
18 I’VE BEEN IN LOVE – DELROY WILSON
19 EVIL DOERS – THE GLADIATORS
20 KEEP ON RUNNING – DELROY WILSON & RANKING JOE
21 NATTY REBEL - UROY
Re Upped 22-5-12
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