Stranger Cole & Gladstone Anderson - Sir Streggae's Apollo Compilation

Stranger Cole y Gladstone Anderson forman mi dúo favorito de rocksteady. Gladstone no solo canta, también es uno de los mejores pianistas jamaiquinos destacándose sobre todo por ser pianista y arreglista del sello Treasure Isle. Stranger por su parte era un corista habitual de todo solista que necesitase de uno y así mismo pedía contribuciones ya que le gustaba grabar en dúos como con Patsy Dodd con quien cantó excelentes canciones y otros grandes como Ken Boothe y Lloyd Charmers. Agradezco al Sir Streggae Apollo por ofrecernos este excelente rejunte que en mi colección pasó a ser un disco esencial!!!

01 - We Shall Overcome

02 - Mally Sally

03 - Chances

04 - Make Good

05 - If We Should Ever Meet

06 - Now I Know

07 - Over Again

08 - Just Like A River

09 - Seeing Is Knowing

10 - Love Me This Evening

11 - Pretty Cottage

12 - Lift Your Head Up High

13 -  (Where Will You Be) Tomorrow

14 - Wonderful Light Of The World

15 - Try Me One More Time

16 - Run Up Your Mouth

17 - How Your Pantie Get Wet

18 - Conqueror

VA - Still Waters (Smooth Reggae)

Reggae Suave y Romántico.

Winston Williams - Still Love

Alton Ellis - You Make Me So Very Happy

The Uniques - My Conversation

Montego Melon - Lucky Dip

The Chosen Few - My Thing

The Heptones - Our Day Will Come

Jerry Jones - Still Waters

Myrna Hague - Touch Me Baby

Lloyd Charmers - My Own Version

The Melodians - You Have Cuaght Me

Delroy Wilson - Once Upon A Time

Tommy McCook - The Great Tommy McCook

Silver & The Magnets - Baby Oh Yeah

Ernest Ranglin - Still Waters Version

Jimmy London - You Know What I Mean

Richard Ace - Can't Get Enough

Willie Lindo - Midnight

Now Generation - For The Good Times

Bruce Ruffin - Rain

Roland Alphonso - Groovy Sax

VA - Simpleton - Solid Rocksteady Chunes

Es de mi más distinguido placer presentar a mi bredrin Diego Steady, selector del Sir Streggae's Apollo Sound System. Autor de este, y muchos más, excelentes compilados que iré subiendo con el tiempo. Esto es Simpleton... simplemente EXCELENTE ROCKSTEADY!!!

01 Derrick Harriott - Do I Worry

02 Basil Daley & The Conquerors - So Nice Like Rice

03 The Hamlins - Sugar & Spice

04 Carlton & The Shoes - Me and You

05 Prince Buster - Nothing Takes the Place Of You

06 Marcia Griffiths - Let Me Hold You Tight

07 Peter Tosh & The Crakers - Simpleton

08 The Harmonians - Be My Queen

09 Termites - Rave All Night

10 The Renegades - Knocking On My Door

11 Delroy Wilson - I Am Not a King

12 Dermott Lynch- You Went Away

13 Freddy McKay - Red Eye Gal

14 The Hamlins - News Carrier

15 Lloyd & Glen - That Girl

16 Larry Marshall - Wooden Heart

17 The Westmorlites - Miss Hai-te Tai-te

18 Keith Thompson - The Way I Feel

19 Patsy Todd- Pata Pata

20 The Apostles - Kiss a Little Finger

21 The Righteous Flames - You Don't Know

22 The Daltons - No More (If It Is Possible)

23 The Techniques - It's You I Love

VA - Forest Gate Rock (Jazz Standards Inna Jamaican Beat)

A veces le cambiaban los nombres a las canciones para no pagar derechos. Por supuesto tales no eran los músicos, sino más bien los productores.

The Skatalites - Malcolm X (The Sidewinder)
Don Drummond - (My) Melancholy Baby
The Skatalites - Christine Keeler (Comin' Home Baby)
Prince Buster - City Riot (Jive Samba)
The Skatalites - Black Sunday (Manha De Carnaval o Black Orpheus)
Baba Brooks - Watermelon Man
Lord Tanamo - You'll Never Know
Prince Buster - Desafinado
Jackie Mittoo - Wives & Lovers
Jo Jo Bennett & The Fugitives - Cantaloupe Rock
Raymond Harper - Shock Attack (Autumn Leaves)
Roland Alphonso - Song For My Father
Tommy McCook & The Supersonics - The Shadow Of Your Smile
The Soul Vendors - Mercy Mercy Mercy
Val Bennett - The Russians Are Coming (Take Five)
Sound Dimension - Summertime
Tommy McCook - The Saint
Lester Sterling - It Might As Well Be Spring
John Holt - Girl From Ipanema
Jackie Mittoo - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
Ken Parker - Ain't Misbehavin'
Lester Sterling - Forest Gate Rock (Barbados)

VA - Reggay Is Here To Stay (17 Early Reggae Tunes)

Este Excelente compilado es obra de un bredrin de la casa: Likkle Nacho. Y otro bredrin, Selector del Sir Streggae's Apollo Sound System, ya lo había subido a su blog pero el enlace no ha sobrevivido. Ojalá escuchemos muchas más compilaciones de Nacho en el futuro!!! A continuación una transcripción del original: 


"Alta compilación de altos chunes por obra y gracia de un alto bredrin Nachito AKA Nachete. Pure AGGRO Reggay!!"

01 Ansel Collins - Night Flight

02 Dandy and the Brother Dan Allstars - Follow that Donkey

03 Gene Rondo - Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye

04 GG All Stars - Funny Girl

05 Hippy Boys - Hog Inna Me Minty

06 Sound Dimension - In Cold Blood

07 Johnny organ - Scarface

08 King Stitt - Where It Sore

09 The Reggae Boys - Mama Look Deh

10 Montego Melon - Swan Lake

11 Eric Monty Morris - Say what you're saying

12 Neville Hinds - London Bridge

13 The Upsetters - Return of the Ugly

14 Soul Cats - Choo Choo Train

15 The Kingstonians - Why Wipe The Smile From Your Face

16 The Cimarons - Soul For Sale

17 The Royals - Never See Come See 

VA - Lonely Heartaches

Reggae y Rocksteady sufrido, melancólico y solitario.

The Clarendonians - Lonely Heartaches
Dave & Ansel Collins - Loneliness
Glen Adams - Hey There Lonely Girl
Delroy Wilson - Have Some Mercy
Slim Smith - Sitting In The Park
Noel Bailey & The Conscious Minds - Lonely Girl
The Heptones -  Meaning Of Life
Bruce Ruffin - Lonely Man
Prince Buster - Nothing Takes The Place Of You
The Melodians - Lonely Night
Lloyd Charmers - What Can I Do
Dandy Livingstone - Same Old Fashioned Way
Derrick Harriott - Let Me Down Easy
Alton Ellis - Gonna Take A Miracle
The Sensations - Mr. Blue
Lascelles Perkins - Please Stay
John Holt & Joya Landis - I'll Be Lonely
Derrick Morgan - Don't Play That Song
Cornel Campbell - Didn't I