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Let's Do Rocksteady

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These 2 CD's have the highest percentage of really popular favorites from my boyhood days. (Many songs called Reggae are actually RockSteady music)

Thank you Lynn Taitt, for slowing down the Ska beat in 1964.

My purchase of Lets do Rocksteady the Story of Rocksteady 1966-68 is all i expected it to be and some,in a word MARVELOUS.

This volume is essential to any collection of Jamaican music.

From the illustrative liner notes to the gorgeous harmonies & arrangements. I have heard no better example of the Rocksteady period of indiginous Jamaican pop music.

I used to hear old reggae at a record store I worked at and have been looking for that CD ever since. I still haven't found it but I've found some great music trying to find it, including this compilation.

The music here is really great and I guess this music was the precursor to reggae music. I never heard of it before but I've listened to it many times and I love the music and the grooves. One can hear the influence of early 60's pop crooners and doo wop here and on top of the laid-back grooves, it's a great sound.