STUDIO ONE

This page given over to a small part of the immense musical output of Jamaica's premier 20th century label known collectively as: Studio One. More information (and more music) is now available to the layperson than was ever available at the time, and while not all of it is either accurate or intelligent, it does serve to forward all of the exceptionally beautiful music to come out of the studios of Clement 'Coxsone' Dodd.

In an inverse way the almost complete lack of interest, for all but the biggest names in Reggae, by the mainstream media has helped to nurture the music; because while keeping it's reason for being focused, I believe the music was able to preserve it's integrity; a trade off that, at least for some fans of the music, has been of some worth. I doubt if it will ever be possible to authenticate, arrange chronologically, or even know what the complete output of this particular studio is, but like the Blues - its mirror in the first half of the century - this lack of a cotemporaneous academic or theoretical narrative over-coding, or underpinning, was part of, or even helped to make Reggae music and Studio 1 in particular, an original and significant contribution to 20th century western art and, QED, life.

CLEMENT SEYMOUR DODD

JANUARY 1923 - MAY 2004

A TRIBUTE

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GOING STEADY HI TONES & THE COXONAIRS ORCH		BURNING IN MY SOUL THE SILVERTONES
	I'M CRYING OVER YOU SIMMS & ROBINSON		NEVER GET WEARY LEE PERRY
HALLELUJAH! THE MAYTALS		HEARTACHES NORMA FRASER
	TUMBLING TEARS ALTON ELLIS		YOU GONNA HOLD ME BRENTFORD ROAD ALL STARS
LET'S JOIN HANDS MELODIANS		BORN A FREEMAN AL & FREDDY
	PITY THE FOOL JACKIE OPEL		WHAT A WORLD BUSTY & COOL
STREET OF GOLD SOUL BROTHERS ORCHESTRA		SKA BOSTELLA SOUL BROTHERS
	FEVER THE MAYTALS		SWEET LITTLE RUBY CHARMERS
PLEASE BE TRUE ALEXANDER HENRY		THE FIRST CUT IS THE DEEPEST DAWN PENN
	INDIAN SUMMER LESTER STERLING		EASY SQUEEZE SHENLEY DUFFAS
MERCY MR PERCY THE TERMITES		I SHALL BE RELEASED FREDDIE McGREGOR
	LOVE ME TONIGHT SOULITES		LEMON TREE THE WAILERS
COVER CHARGE CARL BRYAN & SOUND DIMENSION		POWER HORACE SEATON
	GIDDY-UP THE JAMAICAN ACTIONS		HOMEWARD BOUND HONEY BOY
RUDIE GET WISE SOUL BOYS		DO GOOD FREDDIE & FITZY
	INVITING YOU ALL THE MARVETTS		STAY A LITTLE BIT LONGER LARRY MARSHALL
TREAT ME BAD THE MAYTALS		WIPE THESE TEARS JACKIE OPEL
	SOUL PEOPLE BELTONES		IS IT BECAUSE I'M BLACK IRVING BROWN
I CAN'T GO ON ROY RICHARDS		GO TELL HIM HUGH GODFREY
	COME FORWARD THE SILVERTONES		FEEL LIKE JUMPING MARCIA GRIFFITHS
YOUR GONNA LOSE THE OCTAVES		TWISTING MY BABY OWEN GRAY
	THELMA LARRY MARSHALL		WHOOPY YACKEY SOUNDS & SYSTEMS
HOW CAN I GO ON LARRY MARSHALL		YOU TURNED AWAY HEPTONES
	NEW LOVING THE ITALS		I'LL GIVE IT TO YOU THE TONETTES
I'VE BEEN HURT THE DELTA CATS		GOLD DUST JACKIE MITTOO
	VOO DOO MOON SOUL BROTHERS		PUPPET ON A STRING KEN BOOTH
WISER THAN SOLOMON LESTER STERLING		TOO EXPERIENCED WINSTON FRANCIS
	IT'S IMPOSSIBLE DELROY WILSON		MISSION IMPOSSIBLE JACKIE MITTOO
YOU TROUBLE ME SOUL VENDORS		DON'T WAIT FOR ME ALBERT TOMLINSON
	BLOOD PRESURE SOUL BOYS		THROW ME CORN LARRY & ALVIN
FAT GIRL THE HEPTONES		JAMAICA BAG SOUND DIMENSION
	OK FRED JOHN HOLT		THERE'S ALWAYS SUNSHINE THE BLUES BUSTERS
THE SHOCK DON DRUMMOND		HAVE MERCY HUGH GODFREY
	MAMA LET GO HEPTONES		GOING OUT THE MOONLIGHTERS
EACH LONELY NIGHT CORNELL CAMPBELL		LITTLE LADY THEOPHILUS BECKFORD
	REGGAE A GO GO WINSTON HARRIS		EASY SNAPPING THEOPHILUS BECKFORD
PEOPLE GET READY THE MINSTRELS		PICK UP THE PIECES ROYALS
	SAME OLD SONG WINSTON FRANCIS		PRESSURE AND SLIDE THE TENNORS
MUN-DUN-GU IM & DAVID MADDEN		AFTER LAUGHTER FREDDIE McGREGOR
	MY TIME HUGH GODFREY		PECULIAR MAN GAYLADS
PUT ON YOUR STYLE THE GAYLADS		I SHOULD HAVE MADE IT UP THE MELODIANS
	MEAN GIRL LARRY & ALVIN		CAN I CHANGE MY MIND ALTON ELLIS
EVERYBODY TALKING FREEDOM SINGERS		YOUNG BUD THE ETHIOPIAN
	SHAKE UP ADINAH SUGAR BELLY		GOT TO BE SURE HORACE ANDY
STRANGER IN LOVE JOHN HOLT		SWEET YOU SOUR YOU FREDDIE McKAY
	CALIFORNIA DREAMING WINSTON FRANCIS		FOGGY ROAD BURNING SPEAR
WELCOME HOME DOREEN & JACKIE		RAM JAM JACKIE MITTOO
	YOU FOUND HEAVEN DEVON RUSSEL		RAINY NIGHT IN GEORGIA LORD TANAMO
TURN BACK HANDS OF TIME WINSTON FRANCIS		SUFFERERS CHOICE ROLAND AL AND THE SOUL BROTHERS
	THE SONG MY ENEMIES SING JOE HIGGS		SOUNDS OF SILENCE THE GAYLADS
NOBODY KNOWS THE HEPTONES		RIDING FOR A FALL DELROY WILSON
	DINAH JOE HIGGS		BABY FACE SOUND DIMENTION
YOURS UNTIL TOMORROW MINSTRELS		FROZEN SOUL DUB THE SOUL VENDORS
	I AM WHAT I AM JACKIE OPEL		MARGIE CLUE J & THE BLUES BLASTERS
SHU BE DO BE THE CLARENDONIANS		I WANT TO KNOW THE SCHOOLBOYS
	PACK YOUR THINGS AND GO WAILING SOUL		WICKED WOMAN JIMMY JAMES
WICKED AND DREADFUL NEVILLE ESSON		UNDYING LOVE ERNEST WILSON
	MESSAGE OF OLD JOE HIGGS AND KEN BOOTH		SKYLARKING HORACE ANDY
GOT TO BE COOL THE CLASSICS		QUEEN OF THE MINSTRELS (VERSION) ETERNALS
	COME TO ME RITA MARLEY		ECONOMICAL HEAT WAVE OSSIE ROBINSON
I SHALL BE RELEASED HEPTONES		STAY IN MY LONELY ARMS BOB ANDY
	LESS PROBLEM SOUND DIMENSION		STARS ETERNALS
I'M GONNA PUT IT ON THE WAILERS		BITTER BLOOD SOUND DIMENSION
	SAMPSON TOMMY McCOOK		LITTLE VILLAGE CHARLES ORGANAIRE
LET THEM SAY BOB ANDY		KEEP ON MOVING LORD TANAMO
	TIME IS GETTING HARD LLOYD CHARMERS		GOT TO MAKE IT LARRY MARSHALL
NANNY GOAT LARRY AND ALVIN		WITHOUT LOVE KEN BOOTH
	MONEY WORRIES EARNEST WILSON		LIVE AND LEARN KEN BOOTH
NIMBLE FOOT ROLAND ALPHONSO		ALL I HAVE IS LOVE JOHNNY OSBOURNE
	BE A MAN CABLES		JERICO SKANK JACKIE MITTOO & EARNEST RANGLIN
MAGIC STAR SOUL BROTHERS		GOING HOME BOB ANDY
	KILLER DILLER JACKI MITTOO		SCANDAL DON DRUMMOND
REGAY IN THE GRASS ROLAND ALPHONSO		A LOVE I CAN FEEL JOHN HOLT
	TURN DOWN DATE CORNEL CAMPBELL		PRETTY LOOKS ISN'T ALL CORNEL CAMPBELL
SKA SHUFFLE SOUL BROTHERS		YOU'RE NO GOOD JACKIE OPEL
	DRUNKEN SAILOR FREDDY McKAY		DR. KILDARE ROLAND ALPHONSO
STILL WATERS JERRY JONES		BITTER ROSE SHENLEY DUFFUS
	HIP SHUFFLE ROY RICHARDS		I DON'T MIND BASES

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TWO	STUDIO 1's	IN	ONE
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	MY WHOLE WORLD IS FALLING DOWN KEN PARKER	CHOCKING KIND KEN PARKER
SHAKE UP VICEROYS			TELLING ME LIES NORMA FRASER
	HI JACK JACKIE MITTOO	SUFFERATION TREVOR CLARKE
OCEANS 11 THE CITY SLICKERS			GOOD GOOD RUDIE THE WAILERS
	LOVE ME FOR EVER CARLTON AND HIS SHOES	HAPPY LAND CARLTON AND HIS SHOES
MONEY MAKER IM & DAVID			DOOR PEEP BURNING SPEAR
	AFRIKAAN BEAT LESTER STERLING	SATISFACTION THE PARAGONS
SEE DEM A COME ZOOT SIMMS			HAVE A GOOD TIME KEN PARKER
	IF YOU KNEW THE GAYLADS	JOY IN THE MORNING THE GAYLADS