Artist	Song
Peter Tosh	Steppin' Razor
from Equal Rights (1999)
Junior Murvin	Police & Thieves
from Police & Thieves (Remastered) (2003)
Burning Spear	Marcus Garvey
from Marcus Garvey / Garvey's Ghost (1990)
Johnny Nash	I Can See Clearly Now
from The Reggae Collection (1993)
Marvin Gaye	What's Going On
from What's Going On (2003)
Desmond Dekker & The Aces	Israelites
from This Is Desmond Dekkar (2009)
Bunny Wailer	Blackheart Man
from Blackheart Man (2002)
Black Uhuru	Sponji Reggae
from Red (2003)
Toots & The Maytals	Pressure Drop
from The Very Best of Toots & the Maytals (2000)
Sly & the Family Stone	Stand!
from Stand! (2007)
Culture	Two Sevens Clash
from Two Sevens Clash (2005)
Dennis Brown	Revolution
from Love & Hate: The Best of Dennis Brown (1996)
Johnny Clarke	Move Out of Babylon Rastaman
from A Ruffer Version: Johnny Clarke At King Tubby's - 1974-1978 (2008)
The Mighty Diamonds	Right Time
from Right Time (2003)
Jerry Butler	Only the Strong Survive
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Jerry Butler (2000)
Jacob Miller	Tenement Yard
from Collector's Classics (2008)
The Meditations	No Peace
from Arkology (Box Set) (1997)
Hugh Mundell	Africa Must Be Free By 1983
from Greensleeves Sampler (1987)

Comment:

Tiny though it is, Jamaica cranks out more records per capita than any other country [i]in the world[/i], so it’s no massive shock that Bob Marley was beaten to the U.S. Pop charts. Desmond Dekker, his whooping falsetto lofting over a bass riff that hobbles with a peg-leg sailor’s gait, scored reggae’s first Top 10 single with “Israelites.” In many ways, Marley had more in common with America’s socially conscious soul masters than he did with the locals. Marvin Gaye shared Marley’s vision of a troubled society torn by race and class in “What’s Going On”; and like Marley, he believed in the healing power of love as the ultimate salvation. And Sly & The Family Stone’s soul-power anthem “Stand!” embodied Marley’s fist-in-the-air rebelliousness from “Get Up, Stand Up.” But these selections represent only part of the treasure; the deeper you dig, the more you uncover.

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