Rare Jamaican Doo Wop with a cool Ska beat - There Is Reward video free download

Jack Kolkmeyer

For the 25 years that my radio program Brave New World was on the air in Santa Fe NM I always mixed Jamaican and American doo wop....listeners were always astounded. but when I brought reggae groups to Santa Fe we always talked about how Jamaicans used to listen to great doo wop stations coming out of the east coast in the 60s and how everyone in Jamaica loved the music and then sang it in their own style...fabulous.

thecountofbasie

Jamaican doo-wop is criminally overlooked, both by doo-woppers in general, and probably by quite a few reggae fans...add a mid-tempo ska riddim like this one, and you've got pure magic...I think most of the Studio One sides have been reissued and frankly bootlegged so often, it's nearly impossible to find clean sound (Heartbeat released quite a few CDs from original masters from both Coxsone and Treasure Isle/Duke Reid, and while I still love vinyl, those are probably the definitive releases if you want to hear the sounds at their best

Matt Kidd

Drop a leg & dream of JA

Mac Hagen

This song warms my soul everytime I hear it...thanks so much for posting it!

Claus Harding

Haunting tune....what a combo

shorelineboy

love this

JRoots88

Mighty Joe Higgs

johnny mac

beautiful song :)

Sylvia Gahan

Wow!!! Amazing!

Jim Porter

Makes me happy. Thanks, PJ.

italrel

Joe Higgs, "teacher" of Bob Marley.

adlouxo

OH woW! Ive never heard ska version before! WICKED!

LadyofWar1980

This is the most awsome pieces of Jamaican music I've ever heard! This is the first time I've ever heard it and I'm in LOVE!!!!

DJPowerVersion

@two9parkave Thanks for answering, I appreciate it! The full name of the producer and manager is Winston Chin Quee and the label name came of the colaboration with Coxsone Dodd = Wincox.

two9parkave

@DJPowerVersion Yes Chin Quee was manager and owner of the Mighty Vikings, I can still remember Vikings sessions at the V.I.P. club in Halfwaytree and Sombrero at Four Roads.

PJDooWop

I agree. Now I just need to find an original 45 because the album has terrible sound quality. I'm sure the 45 is much, much better

therealparanormale

jamaica at its best

2tuque2

great stuff, dont know the artist bt is a great sound thanks! love that organ/keyboard sound, thx for posting

Colin Ashley

What a great track! Love the sleeves too #:o)

Sandra Makin

carnt beat studio 1 records