| | Coxsone really set up his first sound system round about 1954 playing boogie-woogie tunes, jazz rhythm & blues records that he imported from the United States. Coxsone Dodd mostly imported his records from Rainbow Records store situated in New York. Harlem which proved to be a beneficial and productive source where good music was concerned, not only that he had the good fortune to find a record store in Brooklyn that could supply all his musical needs. Coxsone made Willis Jackson's Later For Gator his most cherished tune which he made his theme tune known to other sound systems as the Coxsone Hop. It was quite a number of years before any sound system proprietor could obtain the Coxsone Hop for themselves. Duke Reid was the man who eventually got the Willis Jackson tune nine years after Coxsone. A much sort after tune. At the height of the sound system trend and clashes, Coxsone had as many as five sound systems operating each night in different venues. Lets rectify the story about U-Roy dee-jaying for Coxsone. That story isn't true. U-Roy was solely a Duke Reid DJ and never once operated as DJ for Coxsone sounds. When the supply of R & B records began to decrease, Coxsone and other sound system operators were forced into the recording industry to record their own tunes by Jamaican artists to satisfy the dance crowd and those early recordings were reserved for the sole use of the sound systems, but once it had become apparent that there was a growing market for Jamaican productions, Coxsone Dodd rapidly formed his own recording studio. Studio 1. | |
