Festival Jump-Up: Expanded Edition
Lord Tanamo & Friends
Festival Jump-Up: Expanded Edition
Lord Tanamo & Friends
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Album unavailable on any format since 1965
Includes over 30 tracks new to CD!
Features the perennial ska favourite, ‘I’m In The Mood For Love’ (ska)
By the mid-1960s, ska was in full swing, but while the driving, energetic sound dominated Jamaica’s musical landscape, other genres, such as rhythm & blues, calypso and the home-grown style of mento were also widely popularised by local acts. And of these performers, few proved more popular and versatile than Joseph Gordon, a singer-songwriter who, as Lord Tanamo, had been at the forefront of the island’s music scene since the Fifties.
Yet despite his popularity, it was not until mid-Sixties that a long-player dedicated to his output finally saw issue. Released by leading Kingston-based producer Lindon Pottinger, the musically varied “Festival Jump-Up” provides the focus for disc one of this collection, with its original 12 tracks augmented by Tanamo’s best-loved ska recordings from the period, including his oft-imitated rendering of the standard, ‘I’m In The Mood For Love’
Disc 2 collects 28 of the most popular ska and r&b sides issued between 1963 and 1964 on Pottinger’s revered Gaydisc and SEP labels, their number including numerous significant Jamaican hits by the likes of Jimmy James, Roy Panton & Millie Small, Winston Samuels and Dobby Dobson.
The result is a musical cornucopia of rare, high quality authentic early-Sixties Jamaican sounds, many of which have remained widely unavailable on any format until now.
Contents and tracklist
Disc: 1
1. Festival Jump-Up - Lord Tanamo
2. Mary Ann - Lord Tanamo
3. Band Passing - Lord Tanamo
4. Naughty Little Flea - Lord Tanamo
5. Iron Bar - Lord Tanamo
6. A Mothers Love - Lord Tanamo
7. Daddy - Lord Tanamo
8. Land Of Sea And Sun - Lord Tanamo
9. Woman Smarter Than Man - Lord Tanamo
10. Television - Lord Tanamo
11. You Belong To My Heart - Lord Tanamo
12. Take Me Back To Jamaica - Lord Tanamo
13. Taller Than You Are - Lord Tanamo
14. Youll Never Know - Lord Tanamo
15. Come Down - Lord Tanamo
16. Mattie Rag - Lord Tanamo
17. Downtown Gal - Lord Tanamo
18. I Had A Dream - Lord Tanamo
19. I Am Holding On - Lord Tanamo
20. (Let Me) Dance With You - Lord Tanamo
21. Mothers Choice - Lord Tanamo
22. I'm In The Mood For Love (Ska) - Lord Tanamo
23. I Love You Truly - Lord Tanamo
24. If You Were Only Mine - Lord Tanamo
Disc: 2
1. Marie - Roy & Millie
2. You Are The One - Winston Samuels
3. Come To Me Softly - Jimmy James
4. One More Time - Lloyd Brevett
5. Seek And Youll Find - Roy Panton
6. Dont Believe Her - The Gaylettes
7. I Am Not Worthy - Eric Forbes
8. Fatso - AI T. Joe
9. Two Roads (Before Us) - Roy & Yvonne
10. (I Love You) Shirley - Jimmy James
11. Im So Glad - Winston Samuels
12. Dog War Bossa Nova - Don Drummond
13. Oh Merna - Roy & Millie
14. Cry A Little Cry - Dobby Dobson
15. Gloria Love - The Belltones
16. B.B.C. Channel II - The Hersang Combo
17. Oh Shirley - Roy & Millie
18. Luck Will Come My Way - Winston Samuels
19. Thinking Of You - Jimmy James
20. Slowboat - AI T. Joe
21. Join Together - Roy & Yvonne
22. Goodbye - The Gaylettes
23. Cork Foot - Baba Brooks
24. Ive Been Searching - Eric Forbes
25. Cherita - Roy Panton
26. Diamonds And Pearls - Dobby Dobson
27. Follow - Winston Samuels
28. My Request - Jimmy James
