Various – Some-a-Holla Some-a-Bawl: Sounds from Kingston Towne Jamaica LP

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LP version. Orange Street, Kingston, Jamaica: the epi-center of the reggae world. Where all the record shops, studios, pressing plants were based. The new cut 45s would be taken to the shops after a testing on various sound systems and passed to the record shop proprietors to sell.Bunny Leeas a former record plugger and now a leading producer knew what the people wanted and he had a great ear for a hit tune.Some-A-Holla Some-A-Bawlcollects some of the stand out tracks from this period, when music was finding a new beat as rocksteady rolled into the late-60s early-70s reggae sound.The Ravers‘ “Mati And Fulli” telling the story that the “Rent Too High” to theTwinkle Brothers‘ “Miss Laba Laba” — you see and blind you must hear and deaf — clean up your own backyard before talking about others. All stories of daily life and love songs told over a cracking rhythm played by finest musicians on the island. So yes “Some-A-Holla Some-A-Bawl” asMax Romeowould say but it can’t be denied that all the tunes on this selection are of a fine pedigree. Features The Ravers,Winston Shand, Max Romeo, Twinkle Brothers,The Claridonians,Doreen Shaffer,Slim Smith,Delroy Wilson,The Sensations,Derrick Morgan & Hortense Ellis,Roy Shirley,Ken Parker, andDave Barker.