Clancy Eccles & The Dynamites Freedom / Fire Corner

• 1. DISC 1: Clancy Eccles – Freedom
• 2. What Will Your Mother Say
• 3. Two Of A Kind
• 4. The World Needs Loving
• 5. Dollar Train
• 6. Constaninople
• 7. Fattie Fattie
• 8. Auntie Lulu
• 9. Shu Be Du
• 10. My Girl
• 11. I Need You
• 12. Mount Zion
• 13. Bonus Tracks: Clancy Eccles – Open Up
• 14. Darling Don't Do That
• 15. Festival '68
• 16. The Revenge
• 17. Bangarang Crash
• 18. The Big Fight
• 19. Don't Brag Don't Boast
• 20. Deacon Don
• 21. Great (Beat)
• 22. Chinaman
• 23. Oh My Lover
• 24. Dance Beat (Version 1)
• 25. Fattie Fattie (alt Version)
• 26. DISC 2: The Dynamites – Fire Corner
• 27. The Dynamites – Eternally
• 28. Sam-Fie
• 29. I Did It
• 30. This Is The Night
• 31. One Way Street
• 32. John Public
• 33. Mr Midnight
• 34. Soul Language
• 35. Say What You Say
• 36. Vigorton 2
• 37. Next Corner
• 38. Fire Corner
• 39. Bonus Tracks: The Dynamites – Rathid
• 40. King Stitt – Who Yea
• 41. Val Bennett – City Demonstration
• 42. King Stitt – On The Street
• 43. The Dynamites – Mercilina
• 44. Winston Wright – Silbert Dragon
• 45. King Stitt – Lick It Back
• 46. The Dynamites – Last Call
• 47. Winston Wright – Rough Road
• 48. King Stitt – I For I
• 49. Val Bennett – Sweet Africa
• 50. Winston Wright – The Lion Wakes
• 51. Clancy & Stitt – Dance Beat (Version II)

The dawning of the rock steady sound, late in 1966, eliminated the need for record producers to employ horn sections, a consequence of which was to significantly reduce studio costs. The development enabled a new generation of young, dynamic music makers to make a mark upon Jamaica’s recording industry and of these, few proved more successful or influential than Clancy Eccles. By the late Sixties, Eccles had become firmly established as one of the island’s premiere producers, having been a pivotal figure in the development of reggae during the latter half of 1968. The following year he scored his biggest hit, the rambunctious ‘Fattie Fattie’, which sold in huge amounts both at home and the UK, where a chart placing for the disc was only denied by the lack of recognition of sales from Jamaican music retailers. The single’s popularity prompted Trojan Records to issue Eccles’s debut long-player, “Freedom”, which gathered the best of his self-produced recordings as a singer. The album’s release coincided with a second LP of his work that showcased his most recent instrumental productions with top session crew, the Dynamites, along with a trio of tracks featuring pioneering DJ toaster, King Stitt, whose ground-breaking hit, ‘Fire Corner’, provided the collection’s title. Both of these seminal boss reggae sets feature on this essential 2CD compilation, which is further enhanced by 13 additional vocal sides from the late Sixties along with the remaining recorded works of both King Stitt and the Dynamites, from 1969: the year reggae went outernational.