Dandy - Rock Steady With Dandy (1967/2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 439 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps + scans - 287 MB
1:57:19 | Reggae, Rocksteady | Label: Doctor Bird
Historic album previously unavailable on any format for 56 years. Most tracks unavailable since the rock steady era. Includes original versions of ‘Rudy, A Message To You. and .Let’s Do Rock Steady’. By 1967, the Jamaican music industry in the UK was flourishing, its success primarily due to the efforts of a number of talented British-based singers, songwriters and producers, chief among them being the young multi-talented music maker Robert Thompson AKA Dandy. Having first achieved notable success in 1964, partnering Tito Simon on a series of ska singles as Sugar & Dandy, Thompson subsequently made his mark as a solo performer, cutting singles for Emil Shalit’s Melodisc Records before commencing a hugely productive relationship with Rita & Benny King’s R&B Records. Of his earliest work for the Kings were two of the most enduring rock steady tracks of the era, ‘Rudy, A Message To You’ and ‘Let’s Do Rock Steady’ – later covered by Two- Tone hitmakers, The Specials and The Bodysnatchers, respectively.