The Trojan Story 3 X CD

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Release Date – 18th June 2021

First released in 1971, ‘The Trojan Story’ was a triple-LP compilation that not only told the story of the Trojan label succinctly, but which helped bring Jamaican music as a whole to the attention of a wider audience in Britain. Featuring killer cuts of ska, rocksteady and reggae from the likes of Derrick Morgan, The Ethiopians, The Maytals and dozens more, it’s now reissued with a fifty-page booklet in which the original curator Rob Bell discusses the tracks and the label’s history.

Disc 1

1. Lord Tanamo & Charlie Binger’s Six – Invitation to Jamaica / 2. Derrick Morgan & Smith’s Sextet – Fat Man / 3. Wilfred ‘Jackie’ Edwards & The Caribs – Tell Me Darling / 4. Owen Gray & The Kenneth Richard Band – Running Around / 5. Jimmy Cliff & The Beverley’s All Stars – Miss Jamaica / 6. Derrick & Patsy – Housewives Choice (with The Beverley’s All Stars) / 7. The Continentals – Give Me All Your Love / 8. Owen Gray & The Beverley’s All Stars – Darling Patricia / 9. Stranger Cole & Duke Reid’s Band – Rough and Tough (Ruff and Tuff) / 10. Lord Creator & Randy’s All Stars – Man to Man / 11. Stranger & Ken – Eunodus (Uno-Dos-Tres) [with The Baba Brooks Band] / 12. Al T. Joe – Slow Boat / 13. Roland Alphonso & Duke Reid’s Group – Rude Boy / 14. Joe Higgs & Roy Wilson – Gone Is Yesterday (with The Baba Brooks Band) / 15. Lord Tanamo – I’m in the Mood for Ska / 16. The Baba Brooks Band – Ska Virginia (Virginia Ska) / 17. Justin Hinds & The Dominoes – Satan (with Baba Brooks & His Band)

Disc 2

1. Baba Brooks & His Band – One Eyed Giant / 2. Joe White & Chuck & Baba Brooks and His Recording Band – Every Night / 3. Baba Brooks and His Recording Band – King Size / 4. The Astronauts – Syncopate / 5. Winston & George – Keep the Pressure On (with The Beverley’s All Stars) / 6. The Techniques – Oh Babe (Sick and Tired) / 7. The Ethiopians – Train to Skaville (with The Supersonics) / 8. Dandy – Rudy, a Message to You / 9. Honey Boy Martin & The Voices – Dreader Than Dread (with Tommy McCook & The Supersonics) / 10. The Three Tops – It’s Raining (with Tommy McCook & The Supersonics) / 11. The Ethiopians – The Whip (with Lyn Taitt & The Jets) / 12. Desmond Dekker & The Aces – Pretty Africa (with The Beverley’s All Stars) / 13. Alton Ellis & The Flames – Rock Steady (with Tommy McCook & The Supersonics) / 14. Ewan & Jerry – Rock Steady Train (with The Carib Beats) / 15. Sugar Simone – King Without a Throne / 16. Phyllis Dillon – Perfidia (with Tommy McCook & The Supersonics)

Disc 3

1. Roy Shirley – Musical Train / 2. Derrick Morgan – Do the Beng Beng / 3. Lyn Taitt & The Jets – Way of Life / 4. Tommy McCook & The Supersonics – Second Fiddle / 5. Lee ‘King’ Perry – People Funny Boy / 6. The Tennors – I’ve Got to Get You Off My Mind (Cleopatra) / 7. The Maytals – Do the Reggay / 8. The Slickers – Nana (Na Na) / 9. Delano Stewart – Tell Me Baby / 10. The Reggae Boys – Mama Look Deh / 11. The Ethiopians – Hong Kong Flu / 12. The Maytals – Pressure Drop / 13. The Soulmates – Them a Laugh an a Kiki (Them a Laugh and a Kiki ) / 14. The Melodians – Walking in the Rain / 15. Carl Dawkins – Satisfaction / 16. The Maytones – Black and White / 17. The Charmers – Rasta Never Fails