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Soul Jazz Records Presents- Studio One Rocksteady 2

SKU: 5026328003672
L£4,087,000.00
Soul Jazz Records Presents- Studio One Rocksteady 2
Soul Jazz Records Presents- Studio One Rocksteady 2

Soul Jazz Records' new journey into the mighty vaults of Clement Dodd's Studio One steps once more into the fertile musical environment of Jamaican music in the late 1960s and early 1970s, from the sweet harmony vocals of seminal 1960s Rocksteady right up to the nascent birth of Reggae and Roots music at the start of the 1970s. - While Ska at the start of the 1960s had taken American rhythm and blues as it's main influence, Rocksteady focused on the emergence of American Soul music - with Jamaican vocal harmony groups such as The Gaylads, John Holt & The Paragons, Carlton & The Shoes showing a particular fascination with the close harmonies of Curtis Mayfield and The Impressions and other US soul acts. Here The Heptones even feature with a cover of Bob Dylan's 'I Shall Be Released'. - The influence of Soul music on Jamaican rock steady and reggae is almost palpable, so much so that one wonders how much more successful singers like Delroy Wilson, Alton Ellis, Slim Smith and John Holt would have been had they been born in Chicago, Detroit or Memphis. Artists such as Alton Ellis, Delroy Wilson and Owen Gray defined the era - a slowed down beat as Jamaican political and social heat slowly increased as the 1960s progressed into the start of the 1970s - and the music evolved further from rock steady into roots reggae.

Track List

  1. Hortense Ellis - Sitting in the Park
  2. The Termites - Rub Up Push Up
  3. Carlton and the Shoes - Never Let Go
  4. Alton Ellis - I'm Still in Love with You
  5. Owen Gray - Give Me a Little Sign
  6. The Bassies - Big Mistake
  7. Hortense and Alton Ellis - Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
  8. Slim Smith - Born to Love
  9. Cannon and the Soul Vendors - Bad Treatment
  10. John Holt - Strange Things
  11. The Actions - Giddy Up
  12. Larry Marshall - It Makes Me Feel
  13. The Paragons - Change Your Style
  14. Jerry Jones - Trying Times
  15. The Heptones - I Shall Be Released
  16. The Gaylads - the Soul Beat
  17. Delroy Wilson - Run Run
  18. The Soul Two - Puppy Love
  19. Delroy Wilson - Riding for a Fall

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Format: New Vinyl/Reggae

Soul Jazz Records Presents- Studio One Rocksteady 2

SKU: 5026328003672
L£4,087,000.00

Release Date: 1.27.17

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Soul Jazz Records' new journey into the mighty vaults of Clement Dodd's Studio One steps once more into the fertile musical environment of Jamaican music in the late 1960s and early 1970s, from the sweet harmony vocals of seminal 1960s Rocksteady right up to the nascent birth of Reggae and Roots music at the start of the 1970s. - While Ska at the start of the 1960s had taken American rhythm and blues as it's main influence, Rocksteady focused on the emergence of American Soul music - with Jamaican vocal harmony groups such as The Gaylads, John Holt & The Paragons, Carlton & The Shoes showing a particular fascination with the close harmonies of Curtis Mayfield and The Impressions and other US soul acts. Here The Heptones even feature with a cover of Bob Dylan's 'I Shall Be Released'. - The influence of Soul music on Jamaican rock steady and reggae is almost palpable, so much so that one wonders how much more successful singers like Delroy Wilson, Alton Ellis, Slim Smith and John Holt would have been had they been born in Chicago, Detroit or Memphis. Artists such as Alton Ellis, Delroy Wilson and Owen Gray defined the era - a slowed down beat as Jamaican political and social heat slowly increased as the 1960s progressed into the start of the 1970s - and the music evolved further from rock steady into roots reggae.

Track List

  1. Hortense Ellis - Sitting in the Park
  2. The Termites - Rub Up Push Up
  3. Carlton and the Shoes - Never Let Go
  4. Alton Ellis - I'm Still in Love with You
  5. Owen Gray - Give Me a Little Sign
  6. The Bassies - Big Mistake
  7. Hortense and Alton Ellis - Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
  8. Slim Smith - Born to Love
  9. Cannon and the Soul Vendors - Bad Treatment
  10. John Holt - Strange Things
  11. The Actions - Giddy Up
  12. Larry Marshall - It Makes Me Feel
  13. The Paragons - Change Your Style
  14. Jerry Jones - Trying Times
  15. The Heptones - I Shall Be Released
  16. The Gaylads - the Soul Beat
  17. Delroy Wilson - Run Run
  18. The Soul Two - Puppy Love
  19. Delroy Wilson - Riding for a Fall

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