Before the development of its own recording industry, Jamaican music fans predominantly found musical fulfilment in the raw shuffle blues music that emanated from mainland USA. This no-nonsense style of R&B dominated the island s sound system dances from the dawn of the Fifties, with operators aggressively competing with each other for exclusive discs, many of which were later covered by some of Jamaica s biggest names. In the tradition of the previous releases in this series, compiler and annotator Phil Etgart has selected only recordings that are known to have been played on the original Jamaican sound systems of the 1940s and 1950s, and once again he has managed to uncover a few tunes that were generally known on the island by their sound system titles.............
DISC 1 1. Louis Jordan - Caldonia 2. Illinois Jacquet - Twelve Minutes To Go 3. Joe Liggins - Ten Toes 4. Harold Tinsley - Fan Your Fanny Blues 5. Sherman Williams - Hello 6. Eddie Vinson - Kidney Stew Blues 7. Jimmy Witherspoon - Cain River Blues 8. Part 2 - Sonny Thompson - Lone Gone 9. Roy Milton - Keep A Dollar In Your Pocket 10. Joe Liggins - Roll'Em 11. Sherman Williams - Oo-Wee Baby Gee 12. Louis Jordan - Have You Got The Gumption 13. Percy Mayfield - Half Awoke 14. Part 2 - Sonny Thompson - The Fish 15. Larry Darnell - For You, My Love 16. The Robins - If It's So Baby 17. Clarence Gatemouth Brown - Mary Is Fine 18. King Tut - You've Been Fiddlin'Around 19. Bobby Smith - Bess's Boogie 20. Smiley Lewis - Growing Old 21. Clarence Gatemouth Brown - Boogie Rambler 22. Ruth Brown - Teardrops From My Eyes 23. You Milk The Cow - Louis Jordan - Show Me How 24. Parts 1 And 2 - Joe Liggins - Rhythm In The Barnyard 25. Jay McNeely - All That Wine Is Gone 26. Lynn Hope - Blow, Lynn, Blow 27. The Clovers - Don't You Know I Love You
DISC 2 28. Gene Ammons - Ammons Boogie 29. Joe Fritz - They Were Right 30. Billy Wright - When The Wagon Comes 31. Jimmy McCracklin - I Found That Woman 32. Dimples Harris - Call Me Daddy 33. The Griffin Brothers - Comin'Home 34. Joe Papoose Fritz - Real Fine Girl 35. Little Caesar - Long Time Baby 36. The Clovers - Middle Of The Night 37. Fats Domino - Please Don't Leave Me 38. Shirley & Lee - Baby 39. Amos Milburn - Let's Have A Party 40. Hal Paige - Big Foot May 41. The Dodgers - Let's Make A Whole Lot Of Love 42. Lester Williams - Crazy'Bout You Baby 43. Jimmy Liggins - Talking That Talk 44. Johnny Ace - Burley Cutie 45. Johnny Ace - Burley Cutie 46. Willie Mabon - Poison Ivy 47. Jimmy Wilson - Jumpin'From Six To Six 48. The Penguins - Hey Senorita 49. Buddy Griffin With Claudia Swann - Oh, What A Smile Can Do 50. The Charms - My Baby Dearest Darling 51. Tony Allen And The Champs - Nite Owl 52. Dance With You - Rosco Gordon - The Chicken 53. The Lollypoppers - Miss Selma's Boogie 54. Varetta Dillard - So Many Ways 55. Chuck Higgins - Here I'm Is 56. Alonzo Scales - My Baby Likes To Shuffle
DISC 3 57. Clyde McPhatter And The Drifters - What'Cha Gonna Do 58. The Penguins - Don't Do It 59. Smiley Lewis - One Night 60. The Cliques - The Girl In My Dreams 61. The Cookies - In Paradise 62. Vernon Green And The Medallions - Pushbutton Automobile 63. Chuck Higgins - Gambling Woman 64. Let Me Know - Sugar And Spice - Hey Joe 65. Shirley And Lee - That's What I'll Do 66. Bobbie And Ronald - You're Mine Oh Mine 67. Smiley Lewis - Queen Of Hearts 68. Louis Prima - 5 Months, 2 Weeks, 2 Days 69. No Maybes - Professor Longhair - No Buts 70. Chris Kenner - Sick And Tired 71. Lloyd Price - Just Because 72. Gene And Eunice - The Vow 73. Ernie Freeman - Indian Love Call 74. Bill Doggett - Boo Da Ba 75. The Howards - Mimi Girl 76. Huey Piano Smith - High Blood Pressure 77. Terry And Jerry - Mama Julie 78. Professor Longhair - Cuttin'Out 79. Bobby Davis - I Was Wrong 80. Dave Baby Cortez - Piano Shuffle 81. Fats Domino - Be My Guest 82. Jimmy Beck - Pipe Dreams 83. Wilbert Harrison - C.C. Rider 84. The Merri-Men - Big Daddy
