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Money In My Pocket – The Joe Gibbs Singles Collection 1972-1973, 2CD
Various Artists

• 48 tracks from the Joe Gibbs’ stable of the 1970s, featuring a diversity of performer and musical styles

• A 2CD set that includes significant Jamaican hits alongside almost forgotten rarities, with all but 15 recordings making their CD debut, many tracks unavailable on any format since the early ‘70s with 33 tracks new to CD

• Including many of the biggest Jamaican hits of the early 1970s

As the ‘70s unfolded, producer Joe Gibbs continued his inexorable rise to the top of the island’s musical tree. His willingness to try new talent and styles gave him an edge over many of his contemporaries, as reflected in the willingness of major artists to join his roster of acts.

Among their number were such established stars and Dennis Brown, The Heptones, The Ethiopians, Delroy Wilson, Alton Ellis and Derrick Morgan, and newcomers who were just beginning to make their mark on the local recording scene.

Dennis Alcapone & Lizzy: Soul To Soul – DJs Choice

• Debut CD release of classic 1973 album
• With five tracks new to CD
• Includes some of the biggest DJ hits of the early 1970s

By the early ‘70s, the developing style DJ music made popularised by toasting legend U Roy was firmly established as one of the most influential forms of reggae music. Of the scores of youthful talent who found fame on the back of its popularity, none initially proved more successful than Dennis ‘Alcapone’ Smith, whose singles for many of Jamaica’s premier producers led to him becoming the island’s leading recording star.

Among his numerous rivals on the DJ scene throughout this time was his good friend, Delroy Petgrave, who as Lizzy had also enjoyed significant success as a recording artist and around the close of 1972, the two performers recorded together at a session at Duke Reid’s famed Treasure Isle studio on Bond Street, Kingston.

There, under the auspices of the studio’s sound engineer, Byron Smith, the pair toasted over some of the Duke’s finest rock steady and early reggae rhythms, cutting enough material for what ultimately saw issue on the best-selling long-player, ‘Soul To Soul – DJ’s Choice’.

Despite the immense popularity of the album the collection has remained unavailable since the 1990s, but now at last receives its long overdue reissue, with its original dozen tracks bolstered the remainder of the duo’s Treasure Isle work – as well as the instrumental version sides that featured on the alternate sides of the pair’s 7” singles for the label.

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