Various Artists - Rocksteady Taking Over Orange Street (Vinyl LP) PRE-ORDER

Expected Release Date: 16-May-2025 - This Pre-order will be shipped on or just before this date. Release dates are subject to alteration.

A1: The Uniques - Love And Devotion
A2: Roy Shirley - If I Don't Know
A3: Glen Adams - Taking Over Orange Street
A4: Lester Sterling - It Might As Well Be Spring
A5: The Uniques - Girl Of My Dreams
A6: Roy Shirley - Good Ambition
A7: Lester Sterling - Soul Voyage
B1: Glen Adams - Hold Down Miss Winey
B2: Errol Dunkley - I'm Going Home
B3: George Dekker - Foey Man
B4: The Uniques - Hooray
B5: Don T Lee - It's Reggae Time
B6: Webber Sisters - My World
Rocksteady took Over Orange Street, Jamaica around 1966, the same time that an extreme heatwave hit the Jamaican island. Some say the previous jerky Ska Rhythms proved too strenuous of an activity to partake in, during the all night Sound System sessions .So it proved a winning formula to slow the beat down to a more leisurely pace.

Whatever the reasons were this two year period that ran until 1968, would see some of the power escape from the big three producers, Clement ‘Coxone’ Dodd, Prince Buster and Duke Reid, who up until this period had ruled the airwaves .It was time to make room for a new wave of up and coming producers that also had something to offer the people. Such names as Joel Gibson ( Joe Gibbs ), Sonia Pottinger, Derrick Harriott and most prolific of them all Mr Bunny Lee.

These new names would unleash some fine music in what would be a short lived chapter in the ever changing and moving beat that is reggae’s history. We have compiled some of the biggest hits from the Rocksteady period, alongside some lesser known cuts we believe deserve to be re-evaluated. Rocksteady was an inspirational and somewhat over looked sound that provided us with some outstanding music. So sit back and enjoy some Rocksteady straight from the dances of Jamaica.

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