Thursday, January 10, 2008

Soul Vendors - "Something Special"

Thanks for ringing in the New Year with us!

As a treat, here's our very first featured mp3 of Ceci n'est pas une spectacle de radio from today's broadcast:


In 1954 Clement Seymour "Sir Coxsone" Dodd opened Studio One in Kingston, Jamaica, where he recorded and released ska, rocksteady, and reggae by countless artists including a then-unknown Bob Marley.

I don't know much about this particular release, but Blue Beat Special was a rocksteady sampler of some sorts issued on the Coxsone Records label (a subsidiary of Island and then Trojan) in 1968 and was produced by Dodd himself. Today the Coxone singles and records are highly sought after by collectors.

Tracklisting

MP3: Soul Vendors - "Something Special"

- Marquee Smith

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