Studio One Classics

Overview

It is simply impossible to imagine modern Jamaican music without Clement "Coxsone" Dodd's Studio One. Opened in 1963, Dodd's recording facility specialized in loose but durably solid rhythms that are among the most versioned in history, and virtually every singer of note on the island seems to have cut their teeth at Studio One. This wonderful collection only scratches the surface of the studio's riches, but it contains some delightful sides, including "Love Me Forever" by Carlton & His Shoes, the Heptones' gorgeous "Pretty Looks Isn't All," Slim Smith's "Rougher Yet," Horace Andy's striking and delicate rearrangement of "Fever," and a young Burning Spear doing a hard soul turn on "Rocking Time." Timeless stuff. ~ Steve Leggett

Product Details

Release Date:	01/01/2004
Label:	Soul Jazz
UPC:	5026328000961

Tracks

Disc 1

1. El Pussy Ska  -  Skatalites
2. Love Me Forever  -  Carlton & the Shoes
3. Rockfort Rock  -  Soul Dimension
4. Sing Jah Stylee  - Johnny Osbourne
5. Pretty Looks Isn't All  -  Heptones
6. Rougher Yet  - Slim Smith
7. Automatic  -  Lone Ranger
8. Fever  - Horace Andy
9. School  -  Prince Jazzbo
10. Simmer Down  -  Marley

Disc 2

11. Rocking Time  -  Burning Spear
12. I'm Just a Guy  - Alton Ellis
13. Oh Mr DC  - Sugar Minott
14. Consider Me  - Jennifer Lara
15. Confucious  - Don Drummond
16. Rub a Dub Style  -  Michigan & Smiley
17. Full Up  -  Sound Dimension
18. No Man Is an Island  - Dennis Brown

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Dennis Brown   Primary Artist
Sugar Minott   Primary Artist
Lone Ranger   Primary Artist
Horace Andy   Primary Artist
Alton Ellis   Primary Artist
The Skatalites   Primary Artist
Carlton & the Shoes   Primary Artist
The Heptones   Primary Artist
Johnny Osbourne   Primary Artist
The Wailers   Primary Artist
Michigan & Smiley   Primary Artist
Prince Jazzbo   Primary Artist
Jennifer Lara   Primary Artist
Don Drummond   Primary Artist
Bob Marley & the Wailers   Primary Artist
Sound Dimension   Primary Artist
Soul Dimension   Primary Artist
Burning Spear   Primary Artist
Slim Smith   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Barrington Llewellyn   Composer
Anthony Waldron   Composer
Pete Reilly   Mastering
Adrian Boot   Photography
Adrian Self   Cover Design
Carlton Manning   Composer
David Corio   Photography
Dennis Morris   Photography
Winston Rodney   Composer
Don Drummond   Composer
Winston Stewart   Composer
Dennis Brown   Composer
Horace Hinds   Composer
Alton Ellis   Composer
Clement "Coxsone" Dodd   Composer
Bob Marley   Composer
Duncan Cowell   Mastering
Roland Alphonso   Composer
Robert Lyn   Composer
Leroy Sibbles   Composer