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Various - Tougher Than Tough - The Story Of Jamaican Music

Label:
Catalog#:
518 399-2, IBXCD 1
Format:
4 x CD, Compilation
Box Set, Limited Edition
Country:
Europe
Released:
1993
Genre:
Reggae
Style:
Reggae, Dub, Rocksteady, Roots Reggae, Ska, Dancehall

Tracklist

  Forward March 1958-1967
1-01 Folkes Brothers  -  Oh Carolina 2:40
1-02 Laurel Aitken  -  Boogie In My Bones 2:47
1-03 Owen Gray  -  Midnight Track 2:27
1-04 Theophilus Beckford  -  Easy Snappin' 2:50
1-05 Derrick And Patsy  -  Housewives' Choise 2:40
1-06 Derrick Morgan  -  Foreward March 2:50
1-07 Jimmy Cliff  -  Miss Jamaica 2:25
1-08 Millie Small  -  My Boy Lollipop 2:01
1-09 Maytals, The  -  Six And Seven Books Of Moses 2:25
1-10 Wailers, The  -  Simmer Down 2:48
1-11 Don Drummond  -  Man In The Street 3:24
1-12 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes  -  Carry Go Bring Come 2:51
1-13 Skatalites, The  -  Guns Of Navarone 2:28
1-14 Prince Buster  -  Al Capone 2:57
1-15 Prince Buster  -  Hard Man Fe Dead 3:21
1-16 Derrick Morgan  -  Tougher Than Tough 2:26
1-17 Alton Ellis  -  Girl I've Got A Date 2:24
1-18 Paragons, The  -  Happy Go Lucky Girl 3:06
1-19 Delroy Wilson  -  Dancing Mood 2:51
1-20 Ken Boothe  -  The Train Is Coming 3:20
1-21 Hopeton Lewis  -  Take It Easy 2:49
1-22 Jamaicans, The  -  Ba Ba Boom 3:20
1-23 Desmond Dekker  -  007 (Shanti Town) 2:41
1-24 Bob Andy  -  I've Got To Go Back Home 3:05
1-25 Techniques, The  -  Queen Majesty 3:31
1-26 Dobby Dobson  -  Loving Pauper 3:15
1-27 Phyllis Dillon  -  Don't Stay Away 2:32
  Reggae Hit The Town 1968-1974
2-01 Desmond Dekker  -  Israelites 2:48
2-02 Maytals, The  -  54-46 (That's My Number) 2:54
2-03 Ethiopians, The  -  Reggae Hit The Town 2:25
2-04 Max Romeo  -  Wet Dream 2:48
2-05 Uniques, The  -  My Conversation 3:38
2-06 Stranger Cole & Lester Sterling  -  Bangarang 3:08
2-07 Upsetters, The  -  Return Of Django 2:25
2-08 Harry J. All Stars  -  The Liquidator 2:52
2-09 Melodians, The  -  Rivers Of Babylon 4:16
2-10 Jimmy Cliff  -  The Harder They Come 3:40
2-11 Bob & Marcia  -  Young Gifted & Black 3:06
2-12 U-Roy  -  Wake The Town 2:27
2-13 Pat Kelly  -  How Long 3:54
2-14 Dave & Ansel Collins  -  Double Barell 2:47
2-15 Winston 'Niney' Holness  -  Blood & Fire 3:05
2-16 Eric Donaldson  -  Cherry Oh Baby 3:01
2-17 Delroy Wilson  -  Better Must Come 2:34
2-18 Dennis Brown  -  Money In My Pocket 2:33
2-19 John Holt  -  Stick By Me 3:19
2-20 Dennis Alcapone  -  Teach The Children 2:30
2-21 Big Youth  -  S 90 Skank 2:50
2-22 Ken Boothe  -  Everything I Own 3:44
2-23 Dennis Brown  -  Westbound Train 3:07
2-24 Johnnie Clarke*  -  Move Out A Babylon 3:38
2-25 Junior Byles  -  Curly Locks 3:22
  Natty Sing Hit Songs 1975-1981
3-01 Heptones, The  -  Country Boy 2:58
3-02 I-Roy  -  Welding 3:48
3-03 Burning Spear  -  Marcus Garvey 3:24
3-04 Mighty Diamonds, The  -  Right Time 3:15
3-05 Roman Steward  -  Natty Sing Hit Songs 3:19
3-06 Leroy Smart  -  Ballistic Affairs 3:06
3-07 Jacob Miller  -  Tenemend Yard 2:37
3-08 Max Romeo  -  War Ina Babylon 4:04
3-09 Junior Murvin  -  Police & Thieves 3:45
3-10 Culture  -  Two Sevens Clash 3:29
3-11 Delroy Wilson  -  I'm Still Waiting 4:05
3-12 Bob Marley & The Wailers  -  No Woman No Cry 4:04
3-13 Althea & Donna  -  Uptown Top Ranking 3:54
3-14 Gregory Isaacs  -  Number One 3:43
3-15 Wailing Souls  -  Bredda Gravalicious 3:52
3-16 Sugar Minott  -  River Jordan 3:08
3-17 Willie Williams*  -  Armagideon Time 5:09
3-18 Black Uhuru  -  Guess Who' Coming To Dinner 4:54
3-19 Junior Delgado  -  Fort Augustus 4:06
3-20 Freddie McGregor  -  Joggin' 3:43
3-21 Dennis Brown  -  Siting & Watching 3:28
  Dance Hall Good To We 1982-1993
4-01 Gregory Isaacs  -  Night Nurse 4:05
4-02 Yellowman  -  Mad Over Me 3:13
4-03 Michigan & Smiley  -  Diseases 3:31
4-04 Johnny Osbourne  -  Water Pumping 3:06
4-05 Frankie Paul  -  Pass The Tusheng Peng 3:07
4-06 Barrington Levy  -  Here I Come 3:37
4-07 Tenor Saw  -  Ring The Alarm 3:13
4-08 Wayne Smith  -  Under Me Sleng Teng 4:07
4-09 Anthony Red Rose  -  Tempo 3:30
4-10 Super Cat (2)  -  Boops 3:59
4-11 Half Pint (3)  -  Greetings 3:36
4-12 Admiral Bailey  -  Punanny 3:27
4-13 Red Dragon  -  Hol' A Fresh 3:54
4-14 Gregory Isaacs  -  Rumours 4:09
4-15 Tinga Stewart & Ninjaman  -  Cover Me 3:23
4-16 Papa San & Lady G  -  Legal Rights 4:04
4-17 Shabba Ranks  -  Wicked Inna Bed 2:58
4-18 Pinchers  -  Bandolero 3:32
4-19 Tiger  -  Yuh Dead Now 3:49
4-20 Buju Banton  -  Bogle Dance 3:01
4-21 Chaka Demus & Pliers  -  Murder She Wrote 4:05
4-22 Shaggy  -  Oh Carolina 3:10

Credits

Artwork By [Design & Art Direction] - Intro
Compiled By [Researched & Compiled By] - Steve Barrow
Directed By - Suzette Newman
Edited By - Chris Salewicz
Executive Producer - Chris Blackwell
Mastered By - Frank Arkwright
Other [Book Text By] - Steve Barrow
Other [Package Printed By] - James Upton
Photography - Claire Hershman , Dennis Morris , Everton Sharp , Francis Stoppelman , Lennox Smillie , Peter Murphy , Phil Hale , Phillipe McClelland , Retna Pictures , Roy Pottinger
Photography [Main Photographer & Research] - Adrian Boot

Notes

Mastered at Chop 'em Out.
This Compilation ℗ / © 1993 Island Records Ltd.
Labelcode: LC 0407 • Barcode: 7 31451 83992 4 • BIEM/GEMA
Package printed in Birmingham, England.
CDs made in Germany (Sonopress GmbH).

Boxed sets are individually numbered.