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VA - Trojan - Lovers Box Set
 Year: 1999 Country: England Genre: Ska Label: Trojan Records  Format: 3 CD Box set Type: MP3 Bitrate: 128kbps ID Tags: Yes Time duration: 2 hours 32 minutes 34 sec   Tracklist: Disc: 1 1. Living In The Footsteps - Delroy Wilson 2. Put A Little Love In Your Heart - Marcia Griffiths 3. In Paradise - Jackie Edwards 4. Why Baby Why - Ken Boothe 5. Lips Of Wine - Dennis Brown 6. Stay A Little Bit Longer - Delano Stewart 7. Ring Of Gold - The Melodians 8. Memories By The Score - John Holt 9. Our Day Will Come - The Heptones 10. Lonely Man - Dave Barker 11. Have You Seen Her - Derrick Harriott 12. Daddy's Home - Pat Kelly & The Uniques 13. Sad News - The Ethiopians 14. I'll Be Waiting - Alton Ellis 15. Thin Line Between Love And Hate - B.B. Seaton 16. All I Have Is Love - Gregory Isaacs 17. Love Me For A Reason - The Fab Five Inc. Disc: 2 1. Turning Point (Where Do I Turn) - Slim Smith 2. 'Til I Can't Take It Any More - David Isaacs 3. My Jamaican Girl - The Gaylads 4. I'm So Proud - Joe Smith 5. Silly Wasn't I - Sharon Forrester 6. Please Stay - Larry Marshall 7. Here I Am Baby - Al Brown 8. Riding For A Fall - Horace Andy 9. It Must Be True Love - Toots & The Maytals 10. No More Heartache - Beltones 11. That's When It Hurts - The Silvertones 12. Tonight - Keith & Tex 13. One Woman - Bob Andy 14. Never Found A Girl - Cornell Campbell 15. Left With A Broken Heart - The Paragons 16. Fever - Susan Cadogan Disc: 3 1. Your Eyes Are Dreaming - Jackie Edwards 2. Silhouettes - Dennis Brown 3. First Time I Ever Saw Your Face - Marcia Griffiths 4. Now I Know - Ken Boothe 5. You Don't Need Me - The Melodians 6. It Hurts - Delroy Wilson 7. You Make Me Feel Brand New - Inner Circle 8. Rich In Love - Glen Adams 9. Darling Ooh - Errol Dunkley 10. Let Me Hold Your Hand - The Heptones 11. Soulful Love - Pat Kelly 12. You Will Never Find Another Love Like Mine - John Holt 13. Since I Lost My Baby - Derrick Harriott 14. Things Of The Past - Phyllis Dillon 15. Honey Child - Bob Andy 16. You'll Lose A Precious Love - The Uniques 17. Just As Long As You Need Me - Busty Brown   Information about album: Take note of the title Trojan Box Set: Lovers. It was carefully chosen to avoid the amorphous lovers rock tag, and thus allows Trojan to dodge the genre bullet and its chronological mid- to late-'70s straightjacket. In reality, this box is an object lesson in just how meaningless the lovers rock label is. The majority of the songs are drawn from the late '60s through the early '70s, and their reggae-light stylings, pop inflections, and relatively lush production are a strong indicator of how long "lovers rock" had been on the Jamaican scene before the British media came up with a name for it. So, Lovers it is, and Trojan rounds up romance across three CDs and 50 tracks, the perfect way to inflame a candlelit night of passion. All the emotional touchstones are brought to bear, pain and pleasure, the lovelorn and the loving, heartache and hearts joined, love is indeed a many splendored thing, and love lost is desolation. The vocal groups included are Jamaica's crème de la crème -- the Paragons, the Uniques, the Heptones, the Melodians. The singers are some of the best -- Alton Ellis, John Holt, Slim Smith, Pat Kelly, Ken Boothe, Dennis Brown, Gregory Isaacs, and so many more. By and large, the songs are equally exemplary, although there are a full clinkers, poorly conceived covers like Brown's "Silhouette" and Smith's "Turning Point (Where Do I Turn)," although there's no faulting the actual performance, just the choice of song. However, the masterpieces far outweigh the dross, with Jackie Edwards' "In Paradise," Ellis' "I'll Be Waiting," Boothe's "Now I Know," Keith & Tex's "Tonight," and B.B. Seaton's "Thin Line Between Love and Hate" just a handful of the many memorable moments found within. In a few years, many of these same artists will be churning out Euro-fied horrors smothered in strings, with only the syncopated beat a dim reminder of their roots. Lovers box stands as a monument to how sublime Jamaican pop sounded before the British stamped their imprint all over it.  
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