Artist	Song
ken boothe	this is rocksteady
the techniques	festival '68
horace andy	fever
u-roy / melodians	everybody bawling
the ethiopians	come on now
the paragons	it's the same song
desmond dekker	sabotage
alton ellis	rock steady
the jamaicans	the things you say you love
busty brown	to love somebody
the techniques	love is not a gamble
delroy wilson	riding for a fall
the paragons	left with a broken heart
the ethiopians	free man
the soulmates	them a laugh and a kiki
prince buster	too hot
the soul vendors	swing easy
byron lee + the dragonaires	soul ska
the paragons	got to get away
the maytals	i'll never grow old
the ethiopians	gun man
the paragons	wear you to the ball
nora dean	mojo girl
roland alphonso	four corners of the world
prince buster	barrister pardon
the techniques	traveling man
the paragons	riding on a high and windy day
the uniques	people rocksteady

Comment:

prompted by junior d's awesome looking "king of the echo people" mix, which starts with a u-roy track that had me jumping up and down and getting totally nostalgic. this isn't so much "pickitup pickitup pickitup / too hectic too hectic" as it is soul music for rudies to turn the lights down low and just sway to. as much as possible, i stayed true to the mid-to-late sixties golden era of rocksteady, with some obvious nods to both ska greats and upcoming cool operators. i felt obligated to load up on the paragons - they really are much much more than "the tide is high." i also gotta give a high-five to those people who transferred their scratchy vinyl studio one and treasure isle albums to mp3 for the betterment of the file sharing community at large. they're doing their part to keep a cultural heritage alive, to say the least.

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