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Madame Streggae
3 hours ago		Vinyl Album
Various Artists - Tighten Up Vol. 6		Always interesting to try and work out why certain tracks were selected for these compilations.

Track B5 was actually the B side of Jackie's cover of Billy Stewart's 'I Do Love You', so was it chosen so that Jackie would get some royalties out of what was his original composition? Track B6 was two years old by the time this comp came out, so why include it? It was a commercial offering certainly not out of step with `72 but nobody barely seems to remember it when there were much bigger Reggae 45s from that year on the company's various labels. The other explanation of course is that Trojan may have made a commitment to the producers on its roster that x amount of their singles would be included on the company's comps.

Track A5 is actually by Carey and Lloyd.

Madame Streggae
9 hours ago		Vinyl Album
Toots And The Maytals - In The Dark		I think this needs a separate entry for the release on the Dragon label, which is how it came in 1974/75 together with an inner sleeve advertising a competition to win a holiday to Jamaica (I wonder if anybody ever won as Trojan had gone into liquidation at about the time the winners were to be announced).

I can only guess that when Marcel Rodd bought out Trojan copies were then pressed with a Trojan label using the same Dragon catalogue number and left over Dragon sleeves, which appears to be right going by the image pictured here.

Madame Streggae
9 hours ago		Vinyl Album
Prince Buster - Dance Cleopatra		Played this yesterday and in the many intervening years since I listened to 'On Tour' had completely forgotten how Buster changed some of the lyrics to suit a UK centric audience. So we have 'fish and chips and a cup a tea' on 'Take It Easy'!

Would love to know who the backing singers are - probably lost to time but think they sound pretty good.

Madame Streggae
9 hours ago		Vinyl Album
[no artist listed] - This Is Soul		Based on the two tracks I'm hearing here, the emphasis is on jazz rather than soul. But hey, that would have been a much more difficult marketing angle. I do check some of these budget price comps where I'm sometimes surprised by how the do-overs can add a bit of a different dimension to the original, and in a positive way.

Madame Streggae
1st Mar 2025		Vinyl Album
The Drifters - I'll Take You Where The Music's Playing		My non-flip back copy has a sticker covering the 587061 number on the rear with the Atlantic logo saying 'K40009 - this record is available in mono only'. I may need to get out more but this is the first one I've seen.



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Vinyl Album added by Madame Streggae  5 hours ago:

Toots And The Maytals - In The Dark - Dragon - UK (1974)
Vinyl Album added by Madame Streggae  1st Mar 2025:

Various Artists - Grooving With Bamboo Volume 1 - Bamboo - UK (1971)
Vinyl Album added by Madame Streggae  22nd Feb 2025:

Prince Buster - Dance Cleopatra - Blue Elephant - Netherlands (1972)
Vinyl Album added by Madame Streggae  21st Feb 2025:

The Paragons [Jamaica] - Now - Starlight Records - UK (1981)
Vinyl Album added by Madame Streggae  20th Feb 2025:

Various Artists - Tighten Up Volume III - Trojan - UK (1972)
Vinyl Album added by Madame Streggae  7th Feb 2025:

Danny Williams - Danny Williams - Deram - UK (1968)
Vinyl Album added by Madame Streggae  18th Jan 2025:

The Deep River Boys - Spirituals - Nixa - UK (1955)
Vinyl Album added by Madame Streggae  16th Jan 2025:

Jackie Edwards - Come On Home - Stone - Canada (1966)

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