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Reggae Anthology: The Channel One Story

Various Artists
1 disc

0. DISC 1:
1. I Need a Roof - The Mighty Diamonds
2. Don't Smoke the Seed - DJ Frankie Jones
3. Right Time - The Mighty Diamonds
4. Natty Dread Have Credentials - Don Carlos
5. Natty Burial - Lone Ranger
6. Woman Is Like a Shadow - The Meditations
7. Road Block - Sammy Dread
8. Burial - Revolutionaries
9. Things & Time - Wailing Souls
10. Cokane in My Brain - Dillinger (DJ mix)
11. Far East - Barry Brown
12. C.B. 200 - Dillinger
13. Welding - I-Roy
14. Worries in the Dance - Frankie Paul
15. Herbman Smuggling - Yellowman
16. Dances Are Changes - Barrington Levy
17. Show Me That You Love Me Girl - Sugar Minott
18. I Know Myself - Ernest Wilson
19. Truly (DJ Mix) - Ranking Trevor
0. DISC 2:
1. Truly - The Jays
2. Hard to Confess - The Tamlins
3. Ballistic Affair - Leroy Smart
4. Satisfaction - John Holt
5. Ragnampiza - Dillinger
6. M.P.L.A. - Revolutionaries
7. Death in the Arena - Revolutionaries
8. Prema Ballerina - Clint Eastwood
9. Sharing the Night Together - Delroy Wilson
10. Babylon - Sugar Minott
11. Smoke Ganja Hard - Little John
12. Fade Away - Junior Byles
13. Queen Majesty - The Jays/Jays & Ranking Trevor
14. Without Love - Leroy Smart
15. Up Park Camp - John Holt
16. Yaho - The Jays
17. Roach Killer - Super Chick
18. M. 16 - Lone Ranger
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Additional Info

Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 1678
Credits

Producer Earl "Chinna" Smith; Ossie Hibbert; Lloyd Campbell (Compilation)
Engineer Barnabas Stanley Brian; Joseph Hoo Kim; Soljie; Bunny Tom Tom
Personnel: Eradication Squad (horns).
Liner Note Author: Dave Hendley.
Recording information: Channel One Studio, Kingston, Jamaica.
Editor: Paul Shields.
Photographers: Dave Hendley; Simon Buckland.
Although not as well known as Studio One, Treasure Isle or Black Ark, Joseph and Ernest Hookim's Channel One Studio has played an equally strong role in the history of Jamaican reggae, first as a last blast of roots material at the close of the 1970s, and then as a cornerstone of the emerging dancehall scene in the mid-'80s. These two periods correspond neatly to the house bands in residence at Channel One, with the Revolutionaries providing the rhythms behind the first phase, and Roots Radics powering the second. This two-disc history of the studio shows that whatever the differences were between early and later Channel One releases, a crisp, clear sound was the constant, and the hits here from the Mighty Diamonds ("I Need a Roof," "Right Time"), Barrington Levy ("Dances Are Changes"), Delroy Wilson ("Sharing the Night Together"), the Jays (a cover of "Queen Majesty" by the Impressions), John Holt ("Up Park Camp") and Sugar Minott ("Babylon") all feature that same sharp, fresh feel and tone, making this a wonderful introduction to a vital Jamaican institution. ~ Steve Leggett