5013929274631

Festival Jump-up: Expanded Edition

Lord Tanamo & Friends

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Format: 2CD

Cat No: DBCDD046

Release Date:  15 November 2019

Label:  Doctor Bird / Cherry Red

Packaging Type:  Brilliant Case (Jewel Case size, Holds 2 CDs)

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  5013929274631

Genres:  Reggae  

  • Description


    • Album unavailable on any format since 1965

    • Includes over 30 tracks new to CD!

    • Features the perennial ska favourite, ‘I’m In The Mood For Love’ (ska)


     


    By the mid-1960s, ska was in full swing, but while the driving, energetic sound dominated Jamaica’s musical landscape, other genres, such as rhythm & blues, calypso and the home-grown style of mento were also widely popularised by local acts. And of these performers, few proved more popular and versatile than Joseph Gordon, a singer-songwriter who, as Lord Tanamo, had been at the forefront of the island’s music scene since the Fifties.


     


    Yet despite his popularity, it was not until mid-Sixties that a long-player dedicated to his output finally saw issue. Released by leading Kingston-based producer Lindon Pottinger, the musically varied “Festival Jump-Up” provides the focus for disc one of this collection, with its original 12 tracks augmented by Tanamo’s best-loved ska recordings from the period, including his oft-imitated rendering of the standard, ‘I’m In The Mood For Love’


     


    Disc 2 collects 28 of the most popular ska and r&b sides issued between 1963 and 1964 on Pottinger’s revered Gaydisc and SEP labels, their number including numerous significant Jamaican hits by the likes of Jimmy James, Roy Panton & Millie Small, Winston Samuels and Dobby Dobson.


     


    The result is a musical cornucopia of rare, high quality authentic early-Sixties Jamaican sounds, many of which have remained widely unavailable on any format until now.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Festival Jump-Up
      • 2. Mary Ann
      • 3. Band Passing
      • 4. Naughty Little Flea
      • 5. Iron Bar
      • 6. A Mother’s Love
      • 7. Daddy
      • 8. Land Of Sea And Sun
      • 9. Woman Smarter Than Man
      • 10. Television
      • 11. You Belong To My Heart
      • 12. Take Me Back To Jamaica
      • 13. Taller Than You Are
      • 14. You’ll Never Know
      • 15. Come Down
      • 16. Mattie Rag
      • 17. Downtown Gal
      • 18. I Had A Dream
      • 19. I Am Holding On
      • 20. (Let Me) Dance With You
      • 21. Mother’s Choice
      • 22. I'm In The Mood For Love (Ska)
      • 23. I Love You Truly
      • 24. If You Were Only Mine

      Disc 2

      • 1. Marie
      • 2. You Are The One
      • 3. Come To Me Softly
      • 4. One More Time
      • 5. Seek And You’ll Find
      • 6. Don’t Believe Her
      • 7. I Am Not Worthy
      • 8. Fatso
      • 9. Two Roads (Before Us)
      • 10. (I Love You) Shirley
      • 11. I’m So Glad
      • 12. Dog War Bossa Nova
      • 13. Oh Merna
      • 14. Cry A Little Cry
      • 15. Gloria Love
      • 16. B.B.C. Channel II
      • 17. Oh Shirley
      • 18. Luck Will Come My Way
      • 19. Thinking Of You
      • 20. Slowboat
      • 21. Join Together
      • 22. Goodbye
      • 23. Cork Foot
      • 24. I’ve Been Searching
      • 25. Cherita
      • 26. Diamonds And Pearls
      • 27. Follow
      • 28. My Request