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Studio One was and still is one of the leading labels in Jamaican music industry. Its owner and founder Clement Seymour Dodd started producing music in late 50's. The 60's was the golden era of Jamaican music - the foundation of modern reggae music was laid inside the Jamaican Recording Studios - the studio owned by Mr. Dodd. Ska, rocksteady, reggae - all these types of music were literally created in the same premises - in that tiny studio located in 13 Brentford Road in Kingston. Many of Jamaica's leading artists have been part of Coxsone's musical family in some stage of their career, for example Bob Marley & The Wailers, Horace Andy, Bob Andy, Dennis Brown, Freddie McGregor, Lee Perry etc. In addition to that many of Jamaica's top session players cut their teeth at Studio One's School Of Music.
Dodd has released more music than anyone in Jamaica - although he has not been so prolific in recent years after settling down to New York. But he still keeps on releasing his back catalogue (and lets some third parties to release his classic Jamaican music, most notably Heartbeat Records) - and it is extensive.
"Sir Coxsone the downbeat" set up his first sound system around 1954, playing boogie-woogie, jazz and R&B records imported from New Orleans and Miami. As competition between the Island's sound systems grew with such rivals as Duke Reid ,Dodd was forced to travel throughout the USA, to New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, to find more and more exclusive tunes. Rainbow Records on 130th Street in New York's Harlem proved to be a lucrative source of good music, and he was lucky enough to find a wealth of records in Brooklyn. This intense rivalry also led to the practice of scratching out title and artist details from the label of the most sought after 78rpm records, often renamed to preserve their exclusivity - thus, Willis Jackson's LATER FOR GATOR, adopted by Dodd as the Downbeat theme tune became commonly known as COXSONE'S HOP. At the height of the sound system craze, Coxsone had as many as five different outfits operating each night, run by such luminaries as Prince Buster, King Stitt, U Roy and Lee Perry. When the supply of new R&B records began to diminish [due to the rise of rock music?, Coxsone and other sound system operators were forced to begin recording Jamaican artists to satisfy the local fans. These earliest recordings were retained for the sole use of the sound system, but once it became apparent that there was a growing market for Jamaican productions, Dodd formed his first record company: World Disc. SHUFFLING JUG by Clue J and the Blues Blasters, recorded at Federal Studios in 1959, is reputed to be the first true C.S Dodd production. Coxsone's Muzik City opened in East Queen Street, Kingston, at the end of 1959, and began distributing C.S Dodd productions on such labels as All Stars, C&N, D.Darling, Downbeat, Muzik City, N.D Records, Supreme, Worldisc, Coxsone and Studio One.
... /Heights/2597/Whadat.htm * A Love I Can Feel (28) John Holt: A Love I Can Feel : Sir Coxson Dodd, Studio One : VA: Bandits * African Beat (36) * Don Drummond Jr.: African Beat - Sir Coxson Dodd, Studio ... Riddims.html - 9k - 1999-09-07
... ... One of the records is a simple reissue of a Studio One album... A: Yes, Trojan have the Mr. Dodd's tapes and the second album is a my compilation from Studio One tapes like for example, Jackie Mittoo ... http://www.oocities.org/HotSprings/1392/SteveBarrow.html - 17k - 1999-04-24
Lee Perry [...] for your consideration: 1. The Ska Era (1959 - 1966) Mainly working behind the scenes for Coxsone Dodd at Studio One, Scratch didn't get behind the microphone as much as he wanted, but when he did the [...]
... from the age of thirteen, he went on to become the musical director at Clement 'Coxone' Dodd's Studio One label from 1965-69. The music he created there is as seminal a body of work as Berry Gordy's at ... http://www.oocities.org/HotSprings/1392/JackieMittoo.html - 2k - 1999-06-28
... crowd as a break beat but really part of Studio One's Better Dub LP and a good example of Coxone Dodd's no frills approach to the dub idea. GLEN BROWN/KING TUBBY- BLACK DUB Jamaica's other melodica master ... JohnMcCready.html - 10k - 1999-04-17
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Lee Perry The amount of work that Scratch has been involved with over a 35 year career is nothing short of staggering. Scratch's story is more or less the story of Jamaican music
King Tubby Dub music had to come from somewhere, and the consensus is that it came from the mind and four-track mixing board of Osbourne Ruddock, known far and wide as King Tubby
Augustus Pablo New York Times obituary with link to Dutch Reggae Vibes web site
Studio One Soul[Amazon US]
1. Express yourself - Sibbles, Leroy
2. Respect - Frazer, Norma
3. Groove me - Sibbles, Leroy
4. Soulful strut - Sound Dimension
5. Queen of the minstrels - Eternals (5)
6. Message from a blackman - Heptones
7. I'll be around - Gayle, Otis
8. Still water - Jones, Jerry
9. Time is tight - Sound Dimension
10. Can't get enough - Ace, Richard
11. Don't break your promise - Chosen Few (1)
12. First cut is the deepest - Frazer, Norma
13. How strong - Parker, Ken
14. Set me free - Booth, Ken
15. Is it because I'm black - Senior Soul
16. Deeper and deeper - Mittoo, Jackie
17. I don't want to be right - Ellis, Alton
18. No one can stop us - Williams, Willie
Studio One Soul, another sensational compilation that this time spotlights the inescapable link between Jamaican reggae and US soul. Since the late 1950s, which saw ska born out of American R&B, the Jamaican reggae fraternity has always had a strong affiliation towards US soul, and later on, funk. --Chris King, amazon.co.uk
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