Soul Jazz Records Presents - Queen Dem - VINYL LP

Soul Jamaica - Soul Jazz Records' new Soul Jamaica brings together a wicked selection of reggae funk and soul tracks from the legendary Studio One stable, featuring a stellar line-up of artists including Jackie Mittoo, The Heptones, The Gladiators, Sim Smith, Peter Tosh and The Wailers, Cedric 'I'm' Brooks and many more. // For a short period of time at the end of the 1960s and early 1970s, nestled between the end of rocksteady and the arrival of roots reggae, Studio One released a small stream of superb soul and funk reggae tunes - covering everyone from Sly and The Family Stone, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Nina Simone, Gene Chandler, Tyrone Davis and more. // Most of the tracks featured on Soul Jamaica were only ever released on Studio One's UK-subsidiary tag Bamboo in small-run pressings and are now consequently extremely hard to find. // The cover photograph features images of Air Jamaica, the new airline created by the Jamaican government at the end of the 1960s, showing how in the years following independence the country assumed it's place on the world stage, with reggae music playing a key role in creating the island's new cultural identity. Album Tracks 1. Alton Ellis - Tumbling Tears 2. Winston Francis - Turn Back the Hands of Time 3. Sound Dimension - Sing a Simple Song 4. The Gladiators - Fling It Gimme 1. Jackie Mittoo - Soul Finger 2. Winston Francis - Groovy Situation 3. Calvin Marshall - la la 69 4. Soul Defenders - Way Back Home 1. The Heptones - Young, Gifted and Black 2. Im and David - Up Fully 3. Slim Smith - Keep That Light 4. Sound Dimension - Give It Away 1. Zoot Simms - Real Gone Loser 2. Sound Dimension - Soul Bowl 3. Peter Tosh - Can't You See 4. Joy Roberts - Someday We'll Be Together 5. The Freedom Singers - Give Peace a Chance

Double vinyl LP pressing. Includes digital download. Soul Jazz Records' Down Beat Special is a roller-coaster 'greatest hits' ride through many of the all-time classic tunes hand-picked from across the mighty vaults of, without doubt, Jamaica's finest ever record tag and pioneering powerhouse of reggae music. Seminal tracks such as Michigan and Smiley's 'Nice Up The Dance', Dawn Penn's 'No, No, No', The Wailers Simmer Down', The Eternals Queen of the Minstrels'... and on it goes. Non-stop BIG tunes. Down Beat Special is an essential primer to Studio One Records. Originally released as a one-off pressing limited edition (long-since deleted) 7Inch box set, this new edition is fully remastered and expanded to a massive 18 super rare and killer cuts from the Studio One empire. Featuring the Skatalites, Jackie Mittoo, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Horace Andy, Alton Ellis, Lone Ranger and many more, the album features rare and classic tracks throughout. Newly commissioned sleevenotes by Noel Hawks (History of the Jamaican Recording Industry) features a track by track historical and musical analysis, tag scans and more added to this fantastic collection Album Tracks 1. Queen of the Minstrels 2. Nice Up the Dance 3. Ten to One 4. Totally Together 5. Just Say Who 6. Addis Ababa 7. Live Loving 8. Can't Stand It 9. I've Got a Burning Fire 1. Simmer Down 2. Hooligan 3. Your Heart Is Gonna Pay 4. Do It Good 5. You Should Have Known 6. No No No 7. You'll Be Sorry 8. We Need Love 9. Best to Be Free

Album Tracks 1. Jerk Pork - Roland Alphonso & the Alley Cats 2. Lover's Jive - Neville Esson 3. Lazy Lou - Monty & the Cyclones 4. Get Drunk - Owen Gray 5. Dog It - Monty & the Cyclones 6. Clancy Eccles - More Proof 7. Exodus - Tommy McCook & the Skatalites 8. Clue J and His Blues Blasters - Swanee River Rock 9. Delroy Wilson - Spit in the Sky 10. Federal Special - Roland Alphonso 11. Grandma Grandpa - Owen Gray 12. Cuban Blockade - Don Drummond 13. Little Lady - Theophilus Beckford with Clue J & His Blues Blasters 14. Away from You - Tommy McCook 1. Clancy Eccles with Hersan & His City Slickers - I Live and I Love 16. Hully Gully Rock - Roland Alphonso & the Alley Cats 3. Delroy Wilson - Lion of Judah 4. Tommy McCook - Two for One 19. Sweet Sweet Jenny - Toots and the Maytals 20. Grand National - Roland Alphonso 7. Owen Gray with Hersan & His City Slickers - Sinners Weep & Mourn 1. Peanut Vendor - Tommy McCook 2. Shining Light - Toots and the Maytals 10. Lascelles Perkins with Clue J & His Blues Blasters - Lonely Moments 4. Six and Seven Books of Moses - Toots and the Maytals 12. Cecil Lloyd - It Happens 13. Bunny & Scully - Don't Do It 1. Don Drummond - Scrap Iron 8. Creation - Lascelles Perkins with Clue J & His Blues Blasters 9. Don't Slam the Door - Tommy McCook 10. Joybells of Independence - the Rhythm Aces 11. Jack Ruby - Roland Alphonso 12. Hallelujah - Toots and the Maytals 7. Bob Marley & the Wailers - Habits 8. Frank Anderson & Tommy McCook - Wheel and Turn 9. Busty & Cool - Kingston to Mo'bay 10. Don Drummond - Mr. Propman 11. Higgs & Wilson - Mighty Man 12. Tommy McCook & Roland Alphonso - Trotting in 13. Bunny & Skitter with Count Ossie and His Wareikas - Cool Breeze 20. Light of My Life - the Mell