Rock Steady Discography - Papa Lee
Rock Steady Discography - Papa Lee
O'neil
There are a couple qualifications
first. Very few of the single artist collections contain only rock steady.
Since the style only lasted a couple of years and people continued to record ska
into early 1967 and some folks date the earliest reggae recordings to late 1967
it is hard to find a "pure" rock steady collection. Artists tend not to respect
categories the way collectors and historians
do.
The same thing is even more true for
the multi artist compilations. There is a ton of great Studio One rock steady
but much of it is found on reggae or ska collections. This discography is
heavily oriented towards Studio One and Treasure Isle, partly because that's the
way it was and partly because that's what's (far) more available
today.
Rock Steady
Discography
Boothe, Ken - More of Ken
Boothe (Studion One)
Boothe, Ken - Mr Rock
Steady (Studio One)
Boothe, Ken - A Man &
His Hits (Studio One)
Buster, Prince - Judge
Dread (Prince Buster)
Clarendonians -
Clarendonians (Studio One)
Dekker, Desmond -
Original Reggae Hit Sound (Trojan)
Dekker,
Desmond - Music Like Dirt (Trojan)
Dekker,
Desmond - Rockin' Steady (Rhino)
Dillon,
Phyllis - One Life to Live (Lagoon)
Ellis,
Alton - Mr Soul of Jamaica (Treasure
Isle)
Ellis, Alton - Sings Rock & Soul
(Studio One)
Ellis, Alton - Cry Tough
(Heartbeat)
Ellis, Alton - Best of Alton Ellis
(Studio One)
Gaylads - Rock Steady with the
Gaylads (Studio One)
Gaylads - Soul Beat
(Studio One)
Heptones - In Love with You
(United Artists)
Heptones - Fatty Fatty
(Studio One)
Heptones - On Top (Studio
One)
Melodians - Swing & Dine
(Heartbeat)
Morgan, Derrick - Tougher Than
Tough (ROIR)
Paragons - My Best Girl Wears My
Crown (Trojan)
Paragons - On the Beach
(Treasure Isle)
Paragons - 20 Golden Hits
(Lagoon)
Termites - Do the Rock Steady
(Heartbeat)
Multi-artist
compilations
Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd
Productions
Get Ready Rock Steady
(Coxsone 8007)
Mojo Rock Steady (Heartbeat
134)
Musical Fever (Trojan
408)
Ride Me Donkey (Studio
One)
Rock Steady Coxsone Style (Coxsone
8013)
Sounds of Young Jamaica (Gold Wax
0004)
Duke Reid
Productions
20 Greatest Hits of Treasure
Isle (Sonic 0041)
Ba Ba Boom Time (Trojan
285)
Cultural Things (Lagoon
1011)
Depth Charge (Lagoon
1071)
Duke Reid's Treasure Chest (Heartbeat
95/96)
Gems from Treasure Isle (Trojan
206)
Golden Hits (Treasure Isle
003)
Here Comes the Duke (Treasure
Isle)
Hottest Hits Vol. 3 (Treasure
Isle)
Hottest Hits Vol. 2 (Treasure
Isle)
Hottest Hits Vol. 1 (Treasure
Isle)
It's Rockin' Time (Trojan
279)
More Hottest Hits (Heartbeat
109)
Top Rock Steady (Lagoon
1070)
Wake Up Jamaica (Trojan
331)
Miscellaneous & Mixed
Producers
Catch This Beat (Island
7)
Feel Like Jumping (Receiver
111)
Put On Your Best Dress (Attack 109) Sonia
Pottinger productions
Reflections of Rock
Steady (Micron 0088)
Riding the Musical Chariot
(Heartbeat 58) Derrick
Harriott
productions
Rock
Steady Intensified (WIRL 1060)
Rock Steady Rave
(Charly 8477)
Rock Steady Explosive (Heartbeat
72) Joe Gibbs productions
Step Softly 1965-72
(Trojan) Derrick Harriott productions
Not
strictly rock steady but too valuable to
omit:
Pressure Drop
(Mango)
Tougher Than Tough: Story of Jamaican
Music (Mango)
Trojan Story Volume 1
(Trojan)
Posted: Fri - February 7, 2003 at 04:51 PM