Article Details

Article ID

CD-7532

Format

Artist

Various Artists

Title

Merritone Rock Steady 2: This Music Got Soul 1966-1967

Track list

Pos.	Artist	Title
1	Hopeton Lewis	This Music Got Soul
2	Hopeton Lewis	Let Me Come On Home
3	The Zodiacs	Walk On By
4	The Termites	We Gonna Make It
5	The Dynamites	Fountain Bliss
6	Hopeton Lewis	Rock A Shacka
7	Hopeton Lewis	Don't Cry
8	The Royals	House Upon The Hill
9	The Tartans	Real Gone Sweet
10	The Tartans	Roling Rolling
11	Hopeton Lewis	I Don't Want Trouble
12	Lester Sterling	Lester Sterling Special
13	The Dynamites	If You Don't Love Me [take 1]
14	The Tartans	Don't Take That Train
15	Lynn Taitt & The Jets	Batman [Early Take]
16	Hopeton Lewis	Oh Tell Me Darling
17	The Tartans	I'm Ready
18	Henry Buckley	Take Me Back
19	Roland Alphonso	Sounds Of Silence
20	Lynn Taitt & The Jets	Batman [Early Take Rehasal]
21	The Federal All Stars	Merritone Faulse Starts 2

Style(s)

Ska+Rocksteady, Reggae

Label

Dub Store DSR-CD-012

Year

1966-67

Country

JP - Japan

Quality

m/m

Remarks

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.

Price

EUR 22.73

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