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Treasure Isle Ska Rarities The 7" Vinyl Box Set NEW 2017

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Cat no. 4050538305869
TRACKLISTING

7” 1
Practice What You Preach - Owen Silvera & Leon Silvera
I'm All Alone (No Family) [Take 1] - Frank Cosmo & The Baba Brooks Band

7” 2
Love Me or Leave Me (Take 1) - Owen Silvera & Leon Silvera
Sing Ting Bury Yuh (Burial) [Alternate Take] - Duke Reid & His Group & The Baba Brooks Band

7” 3
Thinking of the Future - Stranger Cole & The Baba Brooks Band
Use Your Head (Take 2) - Duke Reid & His Group & The Baba Brooks Band

7” 4
What a Bailing (Ninety One) [Take 1] - The Duke Reid Group & The Baba Brooks Band
You Wish Me Bad (Take 6) - The Spanishtonians & The Baba Brooks Band

7” 5
Always Remember Me (Take 2) - Stranger Cole & The Baba Brooks Band
Want Me Cock (Take 1) - Owen Silvera & Leon Silvera

7” 6
Oh Misery (Take 2) - The Duke Reid Group & The Baba Brooks Band
Fooling Around - The Rio Grandes & The Baba Brooks Band

7” 7
Renegade (Take 1) - The Zodiacs & The Baba Brooks Band
Smokey Ska (Take 1) - The Baba Brooks Band

7” 8
'Til My Dying Day - Winston & Slim & The Baba Brooks Band
Road to Nowhere (Western Flyer) - Lyn Taitt & The Baba Brooks Band

7" 9
My True Confession (Take 1) - The Silvertones & Tommy McCook & The Supersonics
(How) Know Your Friend (Take 1) - Derrick Morgan & Tommy McCook & The Supersonics

7” 10
The Army Is Searching (Take 2) - Basil Caral & Group & Tommy McCook & The Supersonics
Storm Warning (Take 1) - Lyn Taitt & The Boys

Comprising 20 rare and previously unreleased ska tracks direct from the vaults of Duke Reid’s legendary Treasure Isle catalogue, this sumptuous box set includes 10 7” singles presented in a vintage style sleeve.

Although all but one of the recordings on the set have never seen issue until now, the quality of the music remains of the highest order, and features many of Jamaica’s finest talents from the era, all backed by Kingston’s finest session players.

Housed in a handsomely designed box and also including a stylishly designed inlay featuring a fascinating essay from noted vintage Jamaican music expert, Brian Keyo, the set provides the opportunity for fans to own some of the finest long lost treasures the ska era without the need of taking out a mortgage.