Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Some Having a Bawl - The Pioneers
2. Slippery
3. Help Wanted - Stranger Cole
4. Lover Boy - Roland Alphonso
5. Bigger Boss - Ansel Collins, Sir Harry
6. Belittle Me - Carlton Alphonso
7. Reggae Dance - Owen Gray
8. I Like Your Smile - Roy Shirley
9. Poppy Show, Pt. 2 - Andy Capp
10. Music House - Roland Alphonso
11. Sweet Like Candy - Winston "Horseman" Williams
12. Do It Madly
13. Why Why Why
14. Teahouse From Emperor Rosko
15. Jennifer - Junior Soul
16. Tilly - Jay Boys
17. Sweet Musille

Disc 2:

1. Love Brother - Herman
2. Love Uprising - The Jamaicans
3. Never Fall in Love - Winston Heywood
4. Jet 747 [Version 4]
5. Genuine Love - Ken Parker
6. Nuclear Weapon - Ansel Collins
7. Uganda - Herman
8. Bongo Man
9. Repatriation
10. Repatriation [Alternate Version]
11. Chairman of the Board - Bongo Herman, Les & Bunny
12. Medicine Man - The Love Generation
13. Feel Good - Andy Horace
14. Tipatone
15. African Breakfast - Bongo Herman
16. True True to My Heart - Keith Hudson

Disc 3:

1. Peter and Judas - Horace Andy, Earl Flute
2. Rhythm Pleasure - Jerry Lewis
3. Doctor Seaton - Aggrovators
4. High Jacking - I-Roy
5. Murderer
6. Anywhere But Nowhere - K.C. White
7. Nowhere
8. Cow Town Skank [Version 2] - Augustus Pablo
9. Clappers Tail - I-Roy
10. Pity the Children
11. Trying to Wreck My Life - Delroy Wilson
12. Girl of My Dreams - Cornel Campbell
13. Ration - Bingy Bunny, Bongo Herman
14. Great Great Great - I-Roy
15. Great Great Great [Alternate Version]
16. Melody Maker
17. Can You Keep a Secret - Big Youth

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #170173 in Music
• Released on: 1999-08-24
• Number of discs: 3
• Formats: Box set, Import
• Dimensions: .24 pounds

Album Description
50 great reggae tracks from the vaults of Trojan Records, all rare & many on CD for the first time! Includes hard to find cuts by Big Youth, Crystalites, Herman, Jerry Lewis, I Roy, Augustus Pablo and Roland Alphonso. Also features a short biography on each included artist. Each disc comes in a separate slipcase & together they come in a full color brilliant box. 1999 release.

Customer Reviews

there's some gems on here!
Right, I'll be honest, the first cd has only one good tune, Owen Grays 'Reggae Dance'.But it's a damn fine tune at that.The 2nd cd is a corker, Bongo Herman has two classic tunes on this disc.'Chairman Of The Board',(with Bingy Bunny and Les) is an amazing version of 'The Liquidator', and 'African Breakfast' is a beautiful rolling instumental.Also worth noting is Audrey Rollins' 'Repatriation'.The rhythm you may recognise from I.Roys classic 'Musical Drum Sound'-the nyahbingi drumming is missing but it is a damn fine tune never-the-less.Cd 3 features the mighty I.Roy himself, with 'High Jacking', his heavy heavy version of Horace Andys 'Skylarking'. Bongo Herman appears with Bingy Bunny again.-'Ration' is their classic cut to Dennis Browns 'Money In My Pocket'and is guaranteed to get you steppers steppin'.The set closes with a Keith Hudson produced Big Youth tune, 'Can You Keep A Secret', this is my favourite dub tune of all time,complete with mean moody harmonica, and worth the money itself. Other highlights are K.C. Whites 'Anywhere But Nowhere', the beautiful voice from 'No No No', delivering another fine, self-penned tune and Delroy Wilsons extremely rare 'Trying To Wreck Up My Life'.BUY THIS!, you will not be disappointed.

Great great stuff
This is my 6th or 7th Trojan box set. They are pretty uniformly awesome, in my opinion. Rare Groove may be one of my favorites thus far. As far as a previous reviewer stating that there's only "one good tune" on disc one - completely wrong. It's probably my favorite disc in the set. But everyone's tastes are different.

If you like early reggae, this set is for you. Really nice, bouncy early stuff from the late 60s into more "serious" early 70s grooves. Just all-around excellent tunes. A lot of this stuff is similar to disc one of the Upsetter box set - apolitical and upbeat, with a heavy debt to 60s R&B - but all that in a good way.

WONDERFUL MIXTURE OF ROCKSTEADY, DJ/VERSION, AND INSTRUMENTALS
yes, this is one of the better ones. when i heard SOME HAVING A BAWL, i was like YES INDEED, SIR!!!! i was surprised at how much i liked the dj/version stuff, the instrumentals, and the original tracks that the versions came from. along with the ROCKSTEADY joint and the MOD, i would recommend this to anyone who likes that golden age of reggae.