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VA - Trojan - Rock Steady Box Set
 Year: 2001 Country: England Genre: Ska Label: Trojan Records  Format: 3 CD Box set Type: MP3 Bitrate: 128kbps ID Tags: Yes Time duration: 2 hours 19 minutes 15 sec   Tracklist: Disc: 1 1. Rock Steady - Alton Ellis 2. Beautiful And Dangerous - Desmond Dekker 3. On The Beach - The Paragons 4. Little Nut Tree - The Melodians 5. Teardrops Falling - The Versatiles 6. The Loser - Derrick Harriott 7. Shocking Love - Federals 8. Just Tell Me - The Maytals 9. Here I Stand - Justin Hinds, The Dominoes 10. Come On Now - The Ethiopians 11. Somebody's Baby - Pat Kelly 12. Illya Kuryakin - Ike Bennett & The Crystalites 13. You You - Natives 14. It's Hard To Confess - The Gaylads 15. Do I Worry? - Derrick Harriott 16. Conquering Ruler - Derrick Morgan 17. My Conversation - The Uniques Disc: 2 1. Island in the sun - Paragons 2. To sir with love - Taitt, Lynn & The Jetts 3. You're gonna need me - Dunkley, Errol 4. Don't touch me tomato - Dillon, Phyllis 5. Dreader than dread - Honey Boy Martin 6. Mother's young gal - Dekker, Desmond & The Aces 7. Swing and dine - Melodians 8. Walk the streets - Harriott, Derrick 9. Riding on a high and windy day - Paragons 10. ABC rocksteady - Gaylads 11. All my tears - Ellis, Alton & The Flames 12. Super special - Sterling, Lester 13. Young wings can fly - Johnny & The Attractions 14. Trust the book - Versatiles 15. Can't you see - Boothe, Ken 16. Born to love you - Harriott, Derrick 17. Wear you to the ball - Paragons Disc: 3 1. Rudies all round - White, Joe 2. People rocksteady - Uniques 3. Once upon a time - Wilson, Delroy 4. Ba ba boom - Jamaicans 5. Live it up - Natives 6. Upsetter - Perry, Lee 'Scratch' 7. Solomon - Harriott, Derrick 8. Engine 54 - Ethiopians 9. I want to go home - Morgan, Derrick 10. I will get along without you - Melodians 11. Save a bread - Hinds, Justin & The Dominoes 12. Silent river (runs deep) - Gaylettes 13. Time has come - Versatiles 14. Bongo gal - Dekker, Desmond & The Aces 15. Shadow of your smile - McCook, Tommy 16. Over the rainbow's end - Gaylads   Information about album: This 50-song, three-CD set is about as good as it gets as a compilation. The box delights, teases, and fascinates from its opening number, "Rock Steady" by Alton Ellis -- practically the first record ever to use that term. Ellis and well-known acts like Desmond Dekker, the Maytals, the Paragons, Justin Hinds & the Dominoes, and the Melodians share space with lesser-known acts such as the Versatiles, the Federals, Derrick Harriott, and the Uniques. The majority of the acts emphasize vocals, and a great degree of soulful lyricism, whereas the Maytals display a sound and a quality of musicianship closer in content and spirit to the best folk-rock acts of the period. Not all of it is exactly groundbreaking; the pedestrian "You You" by the Natives becomes generic background music very quickly. The expected names, such as the Gaylads ("It's Hard to Confess") and Lyn Taitt & the Jets (a rare instrumental version of "To Sir With Love"), do tend to dominate the proceedings. Derrick Morgan's big rocksteady hit "Greedy Gal" isn't here, but in its place is "Conquering Ruler," another worthy showcase of his talents as a singer and songwriter. Also present is the Michael Jackson of the rocksteady boom, Errol Dunkley ("You're Gonna Need Me"), who cut a string of hits in his mid-teens. Juxtaposed with heavier numbers like "Dreader Than Dread" by Honey Boy Martin, this mix of songs is a good cross-section of this short-lived but dazzlingly creative period in Jamaican (and British) music. The sound quality is generally excellent, although a few of the tracks sound like they're not from first-generation sources. The only glaring flaw is the virtual absence of serious liner notes.  
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