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Funky Jamaica - Prince Buster Compilation
Rock A Shacka presents the long-awaited third release of Prince Buster's secret recordings!
This album contains 12 tracks, covering everything from Jamaican funk to rocksteady and early reggae. The selection of songs is funky, as the title suggests, including 7 unreleased or alternate versions. One of the notable tracks is the original long take of Prince Buster's 1967 recording of "A Tribute To The Toughest" (probably the basis for one of the rocksteady classics, "Ghost Dance"). This is an unreleased song dedicated to the rude boys who surrounded Buster. In addition, Buster's alternate version of James Carr's soul classic "Dark End of the Street," Ernest Laingrin's "Come Get Me," and Winston Samuels' beautiful rocksteady number "I'm Still Here" (with Larry Marshall on chorus) are unreleased takes. You can enjoy the solid finish like a dub plate.
The album also includes many covers of classic songs that Buster loved. These are interpretations unique to Buster, such as James Brown's "Bring It Up (Clap Your Hand)," "Funky Jamaica," a bold arrangement of Beginning Of The End's "Funky Nassau," and The Clovers' "Don't You Know I Love You So." Lee Perry also appears on "Call On Me," a song with the memorable phrase, "So get my number - 6453708, just ask for the whup whop man!...." In addition, the album is packed with unreleased treasured recordings "Got To Be Free" and "All My Life" (both recorded in 1969) by Prince Buster and Teddy Charmer, as well as the only Gregory Isaacs recording "Dancing Floor" from Buster Productions, and the 1969 release "Black Soul," a model of skinhead reggae. Buster chose the ghetto cemetery where the rude boys who had passed away rest, as his resting place. He was a legendary man who never forgot his rude boy spirit until the very end.
