Prince Buster goaded Coxsone into going to the dance where Duke Reid was playing. The dance was held at the Kingston Jubilee Hall. Coxsone and Buster went to the bar and Coxsone bought drinks for those people who was already at the bar. In the week leading up to the dance session, Duke Reid was playing all the the tunes he had bought back from the US, including those exclusive tunes of Coxsone which would be no longer exclusive. Coxsone did not want to stay at the dance. But Prince Buster persuaded Coxsone Dodd to stay. As the clock strucked 12 on the dot at midnight, Duke Reid thrown down the gaunlet by playing the first of Coxsone exclusives. Coxsone standing by the bar listening to the Duke's selection, he suddenly dropped his glass red stripe of beer! Then Coxsone Dodd slowly but surely sank to the floor out cold after the first of the Duke Reid selected tune. Yes! Coxsone was out cold as if he's been walloped by a right upper-cut from a champion heavyweight boxer. Emotional psychological impact of hearing his once exclusive tunes played by Duke Reid, made Coxsone collapsed on the floor! After the that little session, Coxsone abandon his his once exclusives. Duke Reid went on to become king of sounds for a long period of time, but as time went on the American import dried up and sound system operators had to look to grown artists. Duke Reid was the sound system operator who turn his hand to record production in 1957, followed by Coxsone and Prince Buster to cut exclusive records for their own sound system! | | Clement Coxsone Dodd's fusion jazz with rhythm & blues experiment using local musicians like Clue J and the Blues Blasters band. Such was the introversion of their music for sound system clashes that they never envisage anyone outside of the sound system world becoming interested in their kind of experimental music apart from other sound system operators. Of the big three, Coxsone, Duke Reid and Prince Buster, Coxsone produce a unique style of music that no other record producer could copy. Hence, once again his music was exclusive! |
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