Sunday, October 28, 2012

TROJAN PRESENTS ‘THE PRODUCERS’




More than that of any other nation, the development of Jamaica’s music has been shaped by its producers.  Over the past 50 years, these entrepreneurial individuals have not only found local talent and issued their music, but also established studios, retail establishments and even pressing plants, so significantly contributing to the advancement of the island’s recording industry.
Their number have included such luminaries as Duke Reid, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Bunny Lee and Leslie Kong, all of whom developed their own distinctive sound, as evidenced on this collection.
‘Trojan Presents The Producers’ highlights the work of these and 36 other influential and popular Jamaican music makers and by so doing also illustrates the development of the island’s music over the past half-century, from Ska to Dancehall, with an incredible 26 of the recordings making their CD debut.

Trojan Presents  ‘The Producers’

DISC #1:

1.                Mash It, Part 1 – Owen Gray
2.                Million Dollar Baby – Chenley & Annette
3.                No More Wine From The Glass – Higgs & Wilson
4.                Up And Down – Winston Samuels
5.                The Chase – Yvonne Harrison
6.                Stepping Razor – Peter Tosh & The Wailers
7.                Put Down Your Fire – The Kingstonians
8.                Chain Gang – Winston Francis
9.                Easy Come, Easy Go (alt. version) – The Pioneers
10.             Reggae Girl (extended mix) – The Tennors with Karl Bryan
11.             Action Line – The Versatiles
12.             Musical Beat – Roy Samuels
13.             Fatty Fatty (x-tended version) – Clancy Eccles
14.             Cool Down – Winston Hinds
15.             Who Cause It (aka Why Everything Crash) – The Lyrics
16.             How Can I Love You - Ken Lazarus
17.             Cry A Little Cry – Dobby Dobson
18.             I Am In Love Again – Claude Sang
19.             Work It – The Mellotones
20.             Lollipop Girl – Derrick Harriott

 DISC #2:

1.                Teacher Teacher – Dennis Alcapone
2.                Dunce Cap – Herman The Teacher
3.                All That We Need Is Love (ext. version) - Alton Ellis & Big Youth
4.                I’d Love You To Want Me – Horace Andy
5.                Concrete Rock – Ansel Collins
6.                Swept For You Baby (extended mix) - The Heptones & U Roy
7.                Let Locks Grow – Barrington Spence
8.                I’m Your Puppet (extended mix) – Jimmy London & Skin. Flesh & Bones
9.                Jah Fire – Niney (as George Boswell)
10.             Too Good To Be Forgotten – John Holt
11.             Run Joe – Lloyd Charmers
12.             Feel Like Jumping – Marcia Griffiths
13.             Black Beauty – The Mindbenders
14.             Only Jah Love For I – Mystic Eyes
15.             I’m Not A Queen / Duck Boy - Marcia Aitken & Trinity
16.             The Same Song (ext version) – Israel Vibration
17.             You’ll Never Know (12” mix) – Gregory Isaacs
18.             It’s A Good Day – Pat Kelly
19.             Reggae On Broadway – Johnny Osbourne
20.             Principle – Charlie Chaplin

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