Get Ready for Rock Reggae Steady [Import]

Alton Ellis | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 1, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Jamaican Gold
• ASIN: B00000J60G
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,256,927 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Mad, Mad, Mad

2. Let Him Try

3. A Whiter Shade Of Pale

4. I'm Just A Guy

5. Massachusetts

6. Ain't That Loving You

7. Get Ready

8. Live And Learn

9. Baby, Now That I've Found You

10. Never Love Again

11. Why Birds Follow Spring

12. Pearl

13. Tumbling Tears

14. African Descendants

15. Blackman's Pride

16. People Keep Quarreling

17. Working On A Groovy Thing

18. Blackish White

19. I Don't Want To Be Right

20. Misty

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars good stuff, September 17, 2000

By 

Sean M. Kelly (Portland, Oregon United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Get Ready for Rock Reggae Steady (Audio CD)

This is one classic lp! And the first record to actually use the term "rock steady" in it, which is what thie album is all about.

I'm guessing that its from late 1967 just by the evidence of his covers of Procol Harum's "Whiter Shade of Pale," and the unlikely choice of the Bee Gees' monster hit "Massachusetts," both or which are admirably done. Again, Ellis' penache for taking tunes and making them his own is on full display here.

Many of the other tracks on the album, including the beautiful and wildly popular single "Why Birds Follow Spring," as well as "Blackman's Pride," "Let Him Try," and "Pearl," are all pure Ellis at the height of his power.

An amazing disc that is a must have in all rocksteady collections, don't pass up this classic.