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Put On Your Best Dress Sonia Pottinger Ska & Rock Steady 1966-1967

Doctor Bird

Reggae, Ska and rocksteady

2×CD DBCDD-037£14.99
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The Conquerors – What A Agony
The Valentines – Gun Fever
Al & The Vibrators – Move Up
Patsy Todd – Pata Pata Rock Steady
Leslie Butler – Gay Drums
Count Ossie – Nyah Bongo
Al & The Vibrators – Musical Pressure
Jo Jo Bennett – Living Soul
Stranger & Gladdy – We Shall Overcome

1. The Conquerors – What A Agony
2. The Valentines – Gun Fever
3. Al & The Vibrators – Move Up
4. Eric "Monty" Morris – Play It Cool
5. Patsy Todd – Pata Pata Rock Steady
6. The Valentines – All In One
7. Eric "Monty" Morris – Put On Your Best Dress
8. Stranger & Patsy – Tell It To Me
9. The Conquerors – Won’t You Come Home, Girl
10. Stranger & Patsy – Don’t Want To Be Hurt
11. The Harmonizers – Go Back Home
12. The Conquerors – Treat Me Right
13. Stranger & Patsy – Certify My Love
14. Joe Higgs – Sensation Of Love
15. Webber Sisters – Stars Above
16. The Conquerors – Sweet Little Angel
17. Patsy Todd – A Man Is Two-Faced
18. The Harmonizers – Be My Queen
19. Joe Higgs – Don’t Come To My House No More
20. Count Lasher – Ring Ding ’67
21. Stranger & Patsy – Down The Train Line
22. Leslie Butler – Gay Drums
23. The Valentines – Sock It To Me Baby
24. Stranger & Patsy – Your Photograph
25. Count Ossie – Nyah Bongo
26. Al & The Vibrators – Move Up Calypso
27. The Valentines – Stop The Violence
28. Hazel & The Jolly Boys – Stop Them
29. Stranger Cole & Conquerers – Drop The Ratchet
30. Leslie Butler – Winchester Rock Steady
31. Count Lasher – Winnie The Whip
32. Al & The Vibrators – Musical Pressure
33. Stranger & Patsy – Give Me The Right
34. Hazel & The Jolly Boys – Deep Down
35. Stranger & Patsy – Tonight
36. The Fugitives – Seven Heaven
37. Patsy Todd – You Took My Love
38. Stranger Cole & Conquerers – Oh Ye Mahee
39. Aston & Yen – Skilamy
40. Stranger & Gladdy – Mally Sally
41. Joe White – If It Don't Work Out
42. Stranger & Gladdy – One Love
43. The Conquerors – On That Day
44. Stranger & Gladdy – Chances
45. Jo Jo Bennett – Living Soul
46. Stranger & Gladdy – Rudies All Around
47. The Dingles – This Is Thunder
48. Patsy Todd – I Held Your Hand
49. The Conquerors – Listen To Me Baby
50. Stranger & Gladdy – We Shall Overcome
51. Patsy Todd – Give Love A Try
52. The Dingles – Thank De Lord
53. Patsy Todd – Loving Love
54. Rueben Anderson – Christmas Time Again

Between the summers of 1966 and ’68, the sound of rock steady dominated Jamaica’s musical landscape, and throughout this time few producers proved more successful or influential than the island’s premiere female music maker, Sonia Pottinger.

In recognition of her achievements, Trojan Records gathered a number of her best-known tracks in the style on “Put On Your Best Dress”, a popular long player released by the company on its Attack subsidiary in 1990.

Now, almost 30 years later, the LP has been expanded to include the very best of Ms. Pottinger’s output from the early rock steady period, thus creating a superb stand-alone collection of high quality Jamaican sounds, which also perfectly complements the recently issued “ABC Rock Steady” 2CD set.

Including a multitude of Jamaican hits plus over a dozen tracks new to CD, this superb compilation has been stunningly repackaged with brand new stylish artwork, ensuring it now looks as good as it sounds.

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