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VA - Trojan - Sunshine Reggae Box Set
 Year: 2004 Country: England Genre: Ska Label: Trojan Records  Format: 3 CD Box set Type: MP3 Bitrate: 128kbps ID Tags: Yes Time duration: 2 hours 37 minutes 37 sec   Tracklist: Disc: 1 1. Day O - The Techniques 2. Land Of Sun And Sea - The Paragons 3. Soul Limbo - Byron Lee, The Dragonaires 4. Summertime - Lloyd Clarke 5. Summertime Rock - The Progressions 6. Miss Tourist - Dennis Walks, The Pioneers 7. Scorcher - Byron Lee, The Dragonaires 8. Another Scorcher - The Tennors 9. Hotter Scorcher - Sweet Confusion 10. Jamaica Farewell - Jamaica Duke 11. The Sun Shines For Me - Bob Andy 12. Theme From A Summer Place - Ranny Williams, The Hippy Boys 13. Hello Sunshine - Jimmy Cliff 14. In The Summertime - Ken Boothe 15. Sun Is Shining - Bob Marley & The Wailers 16. On The Beach - U-Roy Disc: 2 1. It's Summer - Dave Barker 2. You Are My Sunshine - Gregory Isaacs, Cool Sticky 3. Sunshine Love - The Jamaicans 4. Bless The Sunshine - The Melodians 5. Sunshine Rock - Dave Barker 6. Summertime - B.B. Seaton 7. Beautiful Sunday - Teddy Magnus 8. Good Morning Sun - John Holt 9. We Play Reggae - The In Crowd 10. A Dash Of The Sunshine - Lord Tanamo 11. Island In The Sun - John Holt 12. Reggae In The Sun - Lloyd Adams 13. A Place In The Sun - David Isaacs 14. Mr. Sun - Don Carlos 15. Hot! Hot! Hot! - Byron Lee, The Dragonaires 16. Sunshine Reggae - Rudy 17. Sunshine - Earl 16 Disc: 3 1. Down On The Beach - The Jivers 2. Holidays By The Sea - Symarip 3. Groovin' - Owen Gray, Dandy 4. Sin, Sun, And Sex - Pama Dice 5. In The Summertime - Winston Groovy 6. Mo' Bay - Selwyn Baptiste 7. Sunshine - Danny Ray & The Falcons 8. Mosquito Bite - The Pyramids 9. Sunshade Rock - Boy Friday 10. Dancing In the Sun - Daniel In The Lion's Den, Carl Douglas 11. Under The Boardwalk - Dandy, Down To Earth 12. Summertime - Domino Johnson 13. I Wish I Was Sitting In The Sun - Pat Rhoden 14. Sunshine Girl - Dandy Livingstone 15. I've Got Sand In My Shoes - Greyhound 16. Theme From A Summer Place - Honey Boy 17. Seaside (Mystic Mirror) - Lee Perry   Information about album: Sunshine Reggae, a three-disc box set from Trojan Records, is a sugary delight, with 50 tracks of reggae odes to the sun and the beach, subjects obviously dear to the hearts of Jamaican musicians. Disc one opens with a wonderful version of the dockside tallyman's work song "Day O (The Banana Boat Song)," which is probably best remembered in the hit version by Harry Belafonte, done here by the Techniques. Also featured on the first disc is "Another Scorcher" by the Tennors, Jimmy Cliff's "Hello Sunshine" (produced by Leslie Kong), and Bob Marley's classic "Sun Is Shining" (produced by Lee "Scratch" Perry). Gregory Isaacs and Cool Sticky (Uziah Thompson) pull off a measured and leisured version of the pop standard "You Are My Sunshine" on disc two, while a thundering rhythm track gives teeth to B.B. Seaton's rendition of the classic "Summertime" (one of three versions of the Gershwin piece included here), and Byron Lee & the Dragonaires cover Arrow's soca dance anthem "Hot, Hot, Hot." Disc three shifts focus somewhat to the U.K. reggae scene, and in many ways it is the strongest and most varied of the three sequences, featuring the Jivers' "Down on the Beach" (with its strolling, relaxed piano), Selwyn Baptiste's "Mo' Bay" (a steel drum version of Bobby Bloom's "Montego Bay"), the Pyramids' mento-styled "Mosquito Bite," and Danny Ray & the Falcons' hooky piece of sunshine reggae-pop, "There's Always Sunshine." The box concludes with the odd vision and idiosyncratic production genius of Lee "Scratch" Perry on "Seaside (Mystic Mirror)." The various Trojan box sets are always worth checking out -- regardless of the theme -- but Sunshine Reggae contains enough rare tracks to make it particularly worth owning, and it might well turn out to be just what the doctor ordered on a wickedly cold day in the dead of winter.  
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