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The Treasure Isle Story
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Artist:

Various Artists

Record Label:

Metro

Release Year:

2004

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0698458702920

Genre:

Reggae/Ska

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Collection

Ska

Compilation:

Yes

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New & Sealed

 
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BRAND NEW SEALED UK ISSUE 2CD

Treasure Isle is one of the greatest and most influential reggae labels of all time. Led by sound system legend Duke Reid, the label played a key part in ushering in the emerging styles of ska and rocksteady and kick-started the careers of Jamaiacan greats like The Skatalites, U Roy and The Paragons. This is the ultimate Treasure Isle collection, 2CDs of pure reggae history.

Track List
CD1
1 Phyllis Dillon - Don’t Stay Away
2 The Jamaicans - Ba Ba Boom
3 Dennis Alcapone - Ba-Ba-Ri-Ba Skank
4 The Sensations - Baby Love
5 Dennis Alcapone - DJ’s Choice
6 The Paragons feat. Roslyn Sweat - Blackbirds Singing
7 Alton Ellis - Dance Crasher
8 Dotty & Bonny feat. Don Drummond – Dearest
9 Phyllis Dillon - Don’t Touch Me Tomato
10 Alton Ellis - Girl I’ve Got A Date
11 Derrick & Patsy - Housewife’s Choice
12 Joya Landis - Angel Of The Morning
13 Alton Ellis - La La Means I Love You
14 Freddie McKay - Love Is A Treasure
15 The Paragons feat. Roslyn Sweat - Mother Nature
16 Dobby Dobson - Loving Pauper
17 Joya Landis - Moonlight Lover
18 Phyllis Dillon - Love The One You’re With
19 U Roy - Behold
20 Tommy McCook & The Skatalites - Eastern Standard Time
21 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes - Carry Go Bring Come
22 Baba Brooks - Musical Communion
23 The Skatalites feat. Don Drummond – Mesopotamia
24 Shenley Duffus – Rukumbine
25 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes - Rub Up Push Up
26 The Skatalites - Musical Storeroom
CD2
1 Claudette Miller - Tonight Is The Night
2 Alton Ellis - Willow Tree
3 Phyllis Dillon - The Love That A Woman Should Give To A Man
4 The Techniques - There Comes A Time
5 The Tennors - Weather Report
6 The Paragons - The Tide Is High
7 The Techniques - Queen Majesty
8 Ken Parker - True True True
9 The Paragons - On The Beach
10 Tommy McCook & The Supersonics – Mabrak
11 Dennis Alcapone - No.1 Station
12 The Skatalites feat. Don Drummond – Occupation
13 The Paragons - Only A Smile
14 Errol Dunkley - Where Must I Go
15 Phyllis Dillon - Woman Of The Ghetto
16 Alton Ellis - Why Birds Follow Spring
17 The Gladiators - You Were To Be
18 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes – Sinners
19 U Roy & Hopeton Lewis - Tom Drunk
20 The Techniques - You Don’t Care
21 Phyllis Dillon – Perfidia
22 Alton Ellis – Rocksteady
23 Clive & Doreen - What More Can I Do?
24 Monty Morris & Tommy McCook – Penny Reel
25 Stranger Cole - Rough & Tough
25 The Skatalites feat. Don Drummond - Feeling Fine
 
 
   
Rarely has a company dominated a country's pop music like Duke Reid's Treasure Isle. Alongside its rival Studio One, the Jamaican label was a powerhouse of creativity and talent over nearly three decades, producing hit after hit. It pioneered ska, drove the formation of the style that succeeded it, rocksteady, and helped formulate the reggae sound that would conquer the world.

This collection charts the history of Jamaican music through the massive, evergreen hits of Treasure Isle. Look at the titles and, beyond the regularly-covered `The Tide Is High' now a crowd-pleaser for Atomic Kitten and once a smash for Blondie - probably `Carry Go Bring Come' and perhaps `Moonlight Lover' or `Angel Of The Morning', you might not recognise any of the tracks. But listen to the songs and the familiarity will come flooding back. Snatches heard on the radio or at a dance over the years, songs covered by any number of bands in homage or even snippets featured on TV adverts or as audio on a documentary or film score. Treasure Isle's music is like that. It was always tinkling away in the background, providing an alternative soundtrack to our lives in the '60s and '70s.

Duke Reid began like many of his later record producer peers as a sound system man. He was soon known by the same name as his rig: the Trojan. Coxsone Dodd, whose Studio One would become the cult label of ska and early reggae, emerged as Reid?s major rival for the attention of Jamaica?s dance crowds at the end of the 1950s. From their competitive ingenuity came ska, an indigenous adaptation of the US R&B that the sound systems played. Both had recruited 'house` bands whose expertise with the preferred `jump` sound of New Orleans would eventually lead to a more accented Caribbean style, sung in a distinctly local fashion.

It is Prince Buster, formerly in the employ of Dodd, who is most credited with inventing ska, but it was Studio One, with The Skatalites, and Treasure Isle, with the likes of Derrick Morgan and later Justin Hines, who would dominate the charts. Poaching of and double-dealing between the best musicians was rife. As ska's harvest moon waned, a new slower-paced sound emerged - whether down to dissatisfaction with the limitations of ska, its pace or a particularly draining hot summer for dancers. And if Studio One had pipped Reid over ska, Treasure Isle would dominate the new beat - rocksteady. It helped that Reid recruited sax genius Tommy McCook from Studio One to lead his jazz-schooled Supersonics, the band that would lay down tracks that are still `re-versioned' by today's dancehall producers. The rolling rhythm of rocksteady was syncopated for dancing but allowed more breathing space than ska, and a host of new vocal groups produced the definitive sound of the era, epitomised by The Techniques, The Ethiopians and The Paragons. Soloists like Alton Ellis and Phyllis Dillon also enjoyed years of success.

In the early '60s, when UK importers began to feed the clamour for Jamaican tunes, it was only natural that they would name their company in Reid's honour. Trojan Records is still a vibrant company, still benefiting from the demand for Duke Reid's vast archive of recordings.

Like a river, the Jamaican sound had started fast and wild, taken it easier in its middle period and, in the 1970s, would now cool down even further as reggae emerged as a form that would spread all over the world. Treasure Isle's delicate vocal sound was best suited to the romantic end of the new market and output from the likes of ex-Paragon John Holt and Joya Landis set the template for what would become known as Lovers' Rock. However Reid, now in his late Fifties, found it hard to adapt his studio sound to the harsher, more political climate of the mid-'70s and Treasure Isle ceased to be a major force for new music. He died in 1975.

Rival producer Sonia Pottinger bought out the incredible catalogue that he had built up and reinvigorated its marketing, releasing a series of excellent `Hottest Hits' retrospectives. It's a measure of Reid's genius that those albums are still very much in demand - and filling dancefloors - to this day.


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Number of CDs:2
Recording type:Studio
Distributor:Sony DADC
Recording mode:Stereo

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Performers include: The Skatalites, U-Roy, Alton Ellis.

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