Three-disc set, each disc in a card slip-case, with sleeve notes spread over the backs of the three cases.
Original Jamaican recordings from 1967-1977
Sleeve notes by Stephen Nye
According to the Wikipedia Page about these there were 69 in total, issued between 1998 and 2007. I have 20 of them, of which only 2 were already listed here at 45Worlds when I started to catalogue them, so it looks like I have another 49 to track down if I want to complete the set.
From what I remember they were relatively inexpensive, and retailed at only a pound or two above the cost of a standard CD when they were first issued.
ReviewA curious collection of generally less well known recordings by some of Jamaica's best known male vocalists of the 1960s and 1970s which comes complete with brief biographies of many of these artists.
The music covers the period 1967 to 1977 and follows the evolution of Reggae through that period.
Some nice tunes on here, including a number of remakes of some of the big US and British hits of the era where the original songwriters are properly credited, but could Boris Gardiner's "Groovy Kind Of Love" from 1968, which starts off sounding suspiciously like a Rocksteady take on "Whiter Shade Of Pale", possibly be a version of the old Mindbenders hit? According to the notes it was written by that well known Jamaican composer "Unknown" ..... hmmmm