released in 1992
Tracks:
Disc One:
1. The Skatalites: Nimble
Foot Ska (3:07)
2. The Skatalites: Spred
Satin (2:55)
3. Ken Boothe and Stranger Cole:
Arte
Bella (2:54)
4. Roland Alphonso & The Soul
Vendors: Streets Of Gold(2:52)
5. Rita Marley Anderson & The
Wailers: A De Pon Dem (2:45)
6. The Skatalites: Black Sunday
(2:55)
7. Cornell Campbell: Don't Want
Your Loving
(2:44)
8. Roland Alphonso: Old Fowl
Ska (2:10)
9. Eric "Monty" Morris: Enna
Bella (1:55)
10. Owen Grey with Clue J &
His Blues Blasters:
Jezebel (2:34)
11. Frank Anderson & Tommy McCook:
Always
On A Sunday (2:27)
12. Lee Perry: Sugar Bag
(2:30)
13. Lester Sterling, Johnnie Moore,
and Tommy McCook: Settle Down (2:48)
14. The Checkmates: Turn Me On
(3:04)
15. Bunny and Skitter: When The
Well Runs Dry (2:28)
16. Frank Anderson & Tommy McCook:
Wheel
And Turn (2:42)
17. Cecil Lloyd & Roland Alphonso:
Oceans
11 (3:40)
18. The Jiving Juniors: Over
The River (2:05)
19. Alton Ellis & Eddie Parkins
with Aubrey Adams & The Dewdroppers: My Heaven (2:32)
20. Roland Alphonso & Carroll
McLaughlin:
Set Back (Just Cool) (2:19)
21. Chuck Josephs & Dobby Dobson
with Aubrey Adams: Du Du Wap (2:14)
22. Don Drummond & His Group:
Don
Cosmic (2:33)
Disc Two:
1. Don Drummond: Man In The Street
(3:12)
2. Bob Marley & The Wailers:
Simmer
Down (2:48)
3. Toots & The Maytals: Shining
Light (2:24)
4. Jackie Opel: Push Wood
(2:27)
5. Andy & Joey: Wonder No
More (2:18)
6. Roland Alphonso: Bongo Tango
(3:25)
7. Roland Alphonso: Sucu Sucu
(2:13)
8. Roland Alphonso: 20.75
(2:34)
9. The Gaylads: Stop Making Love
(2:18)
10. Bob Marley & The Wailers:
How
Many Times (Do You Remember) (2:49)
11. Don Drummond and Roland Alphonso:
Roll
On Sweet Don (Heaven And Hell) (2:09)
12. Jackie Opel: Sit Down Servant
(2:09)
13. Bob Marley & The Wailers:
Go
Jimmy Go (2:27)
14. Aubrey Adams & Rico Rodriguez:
Stew
Peas And Cornflakes (2:29)
15. Derrick Harriott: Answer
Me My Darling 2:20)
16. Clancy Eccles with Hersang &
The City Slickers: River Jordan (2:52)
17. Clue J & His Blues Blasters:
Salt
Lane Shuffle (3:14)
18. The Charmers: Jeannie Girl
(2:32)
19. Lascelles Perkins with Clue
J & His Blues:
Lonely Moments (2:42)
Produced by Clement
S. Dodd
Recorded at Federal Records and
Studio One, Kingston, Jamaica
Engineers: Graham Goodall and Clement
Dodd
Compilation: Clement Dodd and Chris
Wilson
Digital transfers: Chris Wilson,
Clement Dodd, Courtney Dodd, Dennis Thompson, Glen Adams.
Digital Remastering: Toby Mountain,
Northeast Digital Recording, Inc.
Production coordination: Chris Wilson
Design and Hand Tinting: Nancy Given
Photographs courtesy of Clement
Dodd and Chris Wilson Sr.
All records in the Heartbeat Studio One Original Masters Series are taken from the original master tapes with the full cooperation of the producer.
Cover photography:
Clement
"Coxsone" Dodd (back to camera) leads an early rehearsal of the Skatalites.
Don Drummond and Rico
Rodriguez are both on trombones.
(Brian Keyo
of Skatalites.com told me that the picture has been taken in the pre-Skatalites
era, ca. 1957)
Linernotes by Chris Wilson