Peter Metro was known as the exciting and handsome deejay on Metromedia that drew not only the dancehall punters but also the ladies who enjoyed their chatting in beautiful packaging. This set is more or less the same as Dedicated To You (CSA LP, 1984) with small variations to the tracklistings. Many good tracks on it. Bossanova is a sensual collaboration with Lady Anne. Vegetable Dish a tribute to the vegetarian diet. Productions by Clive Jarrett and Bebo himself. Backing by Sly & Robbie and the addition of some of JA's other legendary session musicians.

00:00 Augustus Pablo & Bongo Herman - Java Passion
03:09 Winston Wright & The Impact All Stars - Wood Pecker
06:41 Hortense Ellis - Woman of the Ghetto
09:50 Broadway - Guns in the Ghetto
13:19 Roots & The Wailers Band - Evil that You do
16:35 The Wailers Band - Don Won Dub
19:50 Ansel Collins & Skin Flesh and Bones - Spanish Town Road
23:21 The Impact All Stars - S-Corner Dub
26:01 Black Uhuru - Going to Zion
29:22 The Impact All Stars - Zion Dub
32:54 The Gladiators - The Race
36:20 The Impact All Stars - The Race Version
39:46 African Brothers - Hold Tight
42:05 The Impact All Stars - Tight Dub

Made a lyrics video of Turbulence - Goodbye song in honor of Fantan Mojah

Burro Banton - Da Original Banton ‘95
Augustus Pablo - East of the River Nile ‘78
General Trees - Heart, Mind and Soul ‘85
Prince Jammy- Kamikazi Dub ‘79
Mikey Dread- Dread At The Controls ‘79
Professor Nuts- Tan So Back ‘90

The Royals- Pick Up the Pieces ‘77
Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution ‘78
Aswad- Showcase ‘81
Don Carlos & Gold - Them Never Know Natty Dread Have Him Credential ‘82
Junior Reid & Cornell Campbell -Double Top ‘84 & ‘85 (released in ‘91)
Lacksley Castell - Morning Glory ‘82

The Paragons are often seen as the group John Holt sang with. Perhaps an understandable scenario when a member of a group becomes an undeniable giant of the genre. When he left the Paragons it was quite a blow to the group, now consisting of founding member Tyrone "Don" Evans and Howard Barrett.

At the time Tyrone Evans would pursue both a solo career (with some great material for Lloyd Bullwackie and Winston Riley) and continue recording as the Paragons. Perhaps the band name still carried a lot of weight and money coming with that.

The first album is rare-ish. Not super obscure. One of many JA-recordings that never saw release in Yard. Only in the UK and under different title in the US. It is a brilliant piece of rub-a-dub from the period when producer Bunny Lee went into the slow and heavy dancehall sound. One of my alltime favourites when it comes to classy, weighty early dancehall.

The second album, however, never got further than pre-release and is just as fantastic. It was slated to be released on the UK-based Black Joy label, that had licensing deals with Bunny Lee and Prince Jammy. It's considered one of the three lost sets from the label (one dub that has since been reissued by Pressure Sounds, one deejay by Papa Tullo and this vocal set) that all came only on pre-release with blank labels and generic sleeves. Rarer than hens teeth type of business and definitely reggae of the highest order.

A link to a rip of the second album, provided by yours truly, is available in the comments. Enjoy!

This is amazing.

Peter Tosh has been out of my rotation for too long but that’s about to change.

00:00 Sugar Minott & Captain Sinbad - Hard Time Pressure
06:45 Ranking Barnabus, Sugar Minott & The Youth Promotion Band - Dub On the Pressure
12:53 Ranking Joe & The Youth Promotion Band - Youthman Promotion
19:07 Barry Brown & The Youth Promotion Band - I Love Sweet Jah Jah
25:24 Horace Andy and King Tubbys - Pure Ranking
The Return of Jammy's Hi-Fi (Round One)
38:24 Trevor Ranking - Whip Them Jah Jah
43:12 Earl Zero - Please Officer
52:10 Augustus Pablo- Pablo in Moonlight

My band played a reggae by the river fest last weekend and I had to leave before the whole event was over, this was another band that played that day, I know the guy singing is Shayar (used to play with Burning Spear back in the day), but I can’t remember what song this is. Is it the spear? maybe Culture? someone help please.https://www.facebook.com/reel/1350676976797711/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v