Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Fire and Rain - The Gaylads
2. Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight - Sharon Forrester
3. You've Got a Friend - Irving Brown, Cynthia Richards
4. It's Too Late - Noel "Bunny" Brown
5. Rock and Roll Lullaby - Jimmy London
6. Laughter in the Rain - Pluto Shervington
7. Play Me - Marcia Griffiths
8. Cracklin' Rosie - Max Romeo
9. Solitary Man - Skin, Flesh & Bones
10. Cecilia - Keeling Beckford
11. Why Don't You Write Me - Adina Edwards
12. Keep the Customers Satisfied - Bob & Marcia
13. Have You Ever Seen the Rain - Honey Boy Martin,
14. Midnight Rider - Paul Davidson
15. Put Your Hand in the Hand - Brenton Dowe
16. Joy to the World - Judy Mowatt

Disc 2:

1. Make It With You - Little Roy
2. Baby I'm a Want You - John Holt
3. Everything I Own [45 Mix] - Ken Boothe
4. Listen to the Music - Irving Brown
5. Mighty Clouds of Joy - Lloyd Parks
6. For the Good Times - Lloyd Charmers
7. Lovin' Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again) - Lloyd Charmers
8. Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me - Hopeton Lewis
9. Words (Are Impossible) - Cynthia Schloss
10. Kiss an Angel Good Morning - Ken Parker
11. Beautiful Sunday [Instrumental] - Ansel Collins, Thorough-Breds
12. Sylvia's Mother - Eric Donaldson, West Indians
13. Candida - Bruce Ruffin
14. Knock Three Times - Brenton Dowe
15. What Are You Doing Sunday - Bobby Davis, , The Sensations
16. I Woke Up in Love This Morning - Max Romeo
17. I'd Love You to Want Me - Ernie Smith

Disc 3:

1. One Bad Apple - Barry Biggs
2. Love Me for a Reason - Fabulous 5
3. Everything Is Beautiful - Harris Seaton,
4. Close to You - Yvonne & Lisa
5. Yesterday Once More
6. (Sitting On) Top of the World - Keith Lyn
7. City of New Orleans - Hopeton Lewis
8. Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast - The Sensations
9. Mammy Blue - Ken Boothe
10. Take Me Home, Country Roads - Toots & the Maytals
11. Tonight - Vic Taylor
12. Alone Again, Naturally - Now Generation
13. Eighteen With a Bullet - Derrick Harriott
14. Candle in the Wind - Eric Donaldson
15. Last Farewell - Jackie Edwards
16. United We Stand - Cynthia Richards, , Nicky Thomas
17. In the Summertime - Tomorrow's Children

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #345201 in Music
• Released on: 2004-10-26
• Number of discs: 3
• Formats: Box set, Limited Edition, Original recording remastered

Customer Reviews

An excellent, unique reggae collection
Trojan has offered many box sets of countless themes. However, a good deal of them are tailored towards showing off the "Trojan sound" of raw, underground, and groundbreaking reggae that was well loved by UK reggae lovers. Not that this is a bad thing. But overall, the widespread appeal can be limited (although that doesn't detract from the quality of the music).

The Seventies box set is different though. Here you have a bunch of really smooth, sweet-sounding covers of 70s pop radio hits. So "sweet", you may actually forget that you're listening to reggae! But this isn't your watered-down pop reggae performed by one hit wonders. You have your perennial reggae superstars like Marcia Griffiths, Judy Mowatt, The Gaylads, Max Romeo, Ken Boothe and Derrick Harriott.

Some stand out tracks (out of the 50) are "It's Too Late" (the Carole King tune) which sounds like it was written for the reggae beat it's mated to; the dub-heavy "Solitary Man"; "Close To You" by Yvonne which just sounds simply amazing; "One Bad Apple" which was an Osmond tune (but this version sounds cooler); and my personal favorite (maybe because I'm a WVU girl) is "Country Roads" by Toots & The Maytals that may just be the greatest reggae cover ever.

So don't let the Trojan label "scare" you off; even people who have never heard any other reggae than Bob Marley in their life have loved these tunes. Get prepared to sing along!

Mankind's Greatest Accomplishment
It sounded like a fun set of songs: reggae versions of 70s pop hits. It's so much more than that. It's the best thing you've ever heard. It will rob you of your higher mental functions and make you froth on the floor. Let it harness itself to you and then bother you!

70s AM Pop Jamaican Style
Whether you're a fan of seventies AM radio pop or post-rocksteady reggae (or ideally both!) this is a really wonderful listen. Ska, Rocksteady & Reggae have always paid tribute to rock and soul with a bounty of cover versions. This particular collection has artists from Toots to Judy Mowatt (of Marley's I-Threes)paying homage to the sounds filtering down to Kingston via U.S. powerhouse AM stations in the early to mid 1970s. It's great to hear funky reggae'd versions of Bread, Lobo, Gilbert O'Sullivan (!), etc. Max Romeo doing The Partridge Family's "I Woke Up In Love This Morning" is surreal!! As with all of the Trojan Reggae Box Sets, the sound and liner notes are stellar! Get 'em all!!!!!