Duke Reid

Mark Lamarr presents Duke Reid's Nuclear Weapon

-compilation 2003 -
    CD: Trojan TJCCD090
    Released: 24/3/2003

    Tracks:

    1. Duke Reid's All Stars: Unknown Instrumental [Casablanca Shuffle]
    2. The Prodigals: Choo Choo (tk 1)
    3. Roland Alphonso: Istanbul
    4. Unknown: Anytime (tk 2) [Money Is A Thing]
    5. Duke Reid's All Stars: Unknown Instrumental [Midnight In Moskow]
    6. Alton Ellis & Eddy Parkins: Chickeroo
    7. Duke Reid's All Stars: Flip Flop [gtr: Harold McKenzie]
    8. Cosmo & Dennis: Going Down To Cannan (tk 2) [released on Blue Beat BB 141-B, b/w Derrick Morgan: Jezebel / Joy Bells (?)]
    9. Duke Reid's All Stars/Roland Alphonso: Pebble In The Sand
    10. Theo Beckford: Live And Let Live
    11. Duke Reid's All Stars: Unknown Instrumental (not released)
    12. Frank Cosmo: I Don't Want To (tk 2) [released on Blue Beat BB312-B b/w Cosmo & Dennis: Come On Come On] [correct title: I Don't Want You]
    13. Roland Alphonso: You Can Depend On Me [Doc Bagby US original]
    14. Cosmo & Dennis: Lollipop I'm In Love (tk 1) [released on Blue Beat BB 296-B b/w Sweet Rosemarie]
    15. Roland Alphonso: Nuclear Weapon [originally release on JB 216-A b/w Stranger Cole: Love Your Neighbour] [track is actually by Dennis Campbell, miss-credited on the label]
    16. Unknown [Moonlighters]: Money, We Haven't Got (tk 2) [FRS 2030]
    17. Unknown [Basil Gabbidon]: Crying For My Baby (tk 2) [never released]
    18. Hortense Ellis: Hold Me Tenderly [orignally released on Blue Beat BB 295-B]
    19. Unknown [Stranger & Ken]: Feeling Of Love
    20. Alton Ellis & Eddy Parkins [Basil Gabbidon & ?]: We're Going Rollin'
    21. Unknown [possibly: Planners or Twilighters]: Joannie, I Need You
    22. Derrick Morgan [Basil Gabbidon]: At The Party (tk 1)
    23. Cosmo & Dennis: Sweet Rosemarie [released on Blue Beat BB 296-A b/w Lollypop I'n In Love]
    24. Derrick Morgan: Joybells [released on Blue Beat BB 141, on the Jamaican release Joy Bells and Jezebel were together on one single side]
    25. Unknown [Charmers]: Bless You (tk 2) [FRS 139]
    26. Unknown [Stranger & Ken]: He's Coming


    Improved credits by Robert Schoenfeld in rectangular parenthsis. (Source: Roots Knotty Roots message board, 3. Aug. 2003)


    "Compiled and annotated by comedian/DJ/TV presenter and Jamaican music fan, Mark Lamarr, this collection features a number of rare and unreleased early Duke Reid-produced recordings from 1962 that were recently unearthed in the Trojan vaults. The quality of the tracks, both in terms of sound and performance, are second to none and illustrate why Reid proved such a popular and enduring figure on the Jamaican music scene. This is definitely one for fans and the curious alike."
     

Last updated: 26.6.2003
compiled by Reinhard Braun
 
 
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