Title: Top Ranking DJ Session Volumes 1 & 2 / Various Artist: Various Artists Label: Doctor Bird Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 5013929281042 Genre: Reggae Release Date: 2022-09-16 Number of Discs: 2 Additional Details: UNITED KINGDOM - IMPORT
Over 30 tracks new to CD. Two albums on CD for the first time. Includes many of the biggest DJ hits of the late 70s. By the close of the 70s, the DJ sound that had revolutionised the Jamaican music industry at the start of the decade was firmly established as one of the dominant sub-genres of reggae music. Few producers championed the style more vigorously than Joe Gibbs, who along with Errol Thompson, regularly provided a platform for the cream of the island's toasters. In 1977, some of their finest DJ productions were gathered on the album, 'Top Ranking DJ Session Volume 1', the popularity of which spurred a second volume two years later. Now, at long last, both collections feature on CD for the first time, with their track listings stripped of a few much earlier tracks and bolstered by the very best of the Mighty Two's DJ output from the late 70s.
Tracks: 1.1 Top Ranking - Trinity 1.2 Trust No Shadow After Dark - I Roy 1.3 Commercial Business - Trinity 1.4 Equal Rights Style - Big Youth 1.5 Natty Pass His G.C.E. - Shorty the President 1.6 Big Fast Car - Big Youth 1.7 Badder Than You - Clint Eastwood 1.8 Jah Joy - Mr. Bojangles 1.9 Too Much Gal Out a Street - Shorty the President 1.10 Ask Me No Question - Ranking Joe 1.11 Dread Locks Thing - Prince Hammer 1.12 Production Plan - Clint Eastwood 1.13 Prophesy Reveal - Mr. Bojangles 1.14 Bellevue Patient - Dillinger 1.15 Dread Locks Party - Ranking Joe 1.16 The Selassie I Cup - Mr. Bojangles 1.17 Informer - Prince Mohammed 1.18 Natty on Top - Prince Hammer 1.19 Jamaican Dollar - Trinity 1.20 Producer's Trophy - Mr. Bojangles 1.21 Ten Years Late - Prince Mohammed 1.22 Different Style - Kojak ; Liza 2.1 Come Fi Si Yu Daughter - Jah Thomas 2.2 Gau'wn a School - U Brown 2.3 3 One Fi the Money - Clint Eastwood 2.4 Kublicon - Dillinger 2.5 My Wife - Lui Lepke 2.6 Beverley How You Love Me - Lee Van Cleef 2.7 Girls of Today - Weedy Dread 2.8 Bad Card - Trinity 2.9 Set Me Free - I Roy 2.10 Forty Leg Dread - Prince Mohammed 2.11 Out the Light - Dillinger 2.12 Starsky and Hutch - Trinity 2.13 Orthodox Rock - Prince Hammer 2.14 Friend and Money - Mikey Dread 2.15 Bubbling Love - Prince Mohammed 2.16 War Is Over - Dillinger 2.17 Naw Go a Them Burial - Prince Allah 2.18 I Pray Thee - I Roy 2.19 Hog and Goat - Trinity 2.20 Shaolin Disciples - Jah Grundy 2.21 Racing Pool - Dillinger 2.22 Christmas Style - Kojak ; Liza
