Caribou & Downbeat 78'S Story / Various Caribou & Downbeat 78'S Story / Various CD

2009 two CD collection. The Caribou label featured JA recorded Mento mixed with other music styles from around the Caribbean Gulf, including R&B, Cha Cha, Rumba and Meringue. These tracks mark the birth of an Urban Jamaican musical style and featured well known Mento artists such as Lord Tanomo, Count Lasher & Count Sticky as well as Laurel Aitken, whose blending of mento with JA Gospel and US R&B created a whole new style of Jamaican music:. The Downbeat label issued Sound Systems classic of U.S. R&B cut over the previous few years. This double disc set features great music plus great pictures of original DJ's with their crates of 78's, previously only known to hardcore fans.

1. Count Lasha ; His Calypsonians - Calypso Cha Cha 2. Count Lasha ; His Calypsonians - Perseverance 3. Count Lasher ; His Calypso Quintet - Miss Constance 4. Count Lasher ; His Calypso Quintet - Slide Mongoose 5. Count Lasher ; His Calypso Quintet - Calabash 6. Count Lasher ; His Calypso Quintet - Dalvey Girl 7. Lord Tanomo ; His Calypsonians - Animal Instinct 8. Lord Tanomo ; His Calypsonians - Little Fist 9. Lord Tanomo, Acc. By Charlie Binger's Six - Invitation to Jamaica 10. Lord Tanomo, Acc. By Charlie Binger's Six - Pradieal Tief 11. Lord Tanomo, Feat. Jerome Walter's Conga Drums - Calypso Meringue 12. Lord Tanomo, Feat. Jerome Walter's Conga Drums - Wicked Woman 13. Count Sticky ; His Calypsonians - Chico Chico 14. Count Sticky ; His Calypsonians - Bam Celiena 15. Calypso Rock N Roll - Laurel Aitken 16. Nightfall in Zion (Aka Roll River Jordan) - Laurel Aitken 17. The Walls of Jericho - Laurel Aitken ; His Calypso Band 18. Rege Dege Ding - Laurel Aitken ; His Calypso Band 19. Aitken's Boogie - Laurel Aitken 20. Tab Smith - My Mothers Eyes 21. Tab Smith - These Foolish Things 22. Shirley ; Lee - Let the Good Times Roll 23. Shirley ; Lee - Do You Mean to Hurt 24. Lynn Hope - Blue Moon 25. Lynn Hope - Blow Lynn Blow 26. Sonny Knight - But Officer 27. Dodgers - Let's Make a Whole Lotta Love 28. Gene ; Eunice - This Is My Story 29. Gene ; Eunice - Move Over Baby 30. Ray Johnson - Calypso Joe 31. Chuck Higgins - Gambling Woman 32. Chuck Higgins - Here I Is 33. Lloyd Price - Just Because 34. Sonny Parker - Worried Life Blues 35. Pat the Cat - Blow Pat Blow 36. Paul Anka - Diana 37. Gene ; Eunice - the Vow 38. Bobby Charles - Yea Yea Yea 39. Eddie Platt - Tequillo