| | As a sound system proprietor he had to have the latest music and a few exclusive. Coxsone Dodd struck up a business relationship with a few record shops and small Bob Marley - Freedom Time in America to enable him to have the very latest sounds in music in order to be competitive being as he was not the first to set up in the sound system business. Tom the Great Sebastian was Jamaica first sound system but Tom the proprietor of the sound hadn't got the same business sense of Coxsone. Growing up in a family business environment Coxsone had an astute business sense and Coxsone knew how to make money more than most of the other sound system operators. Only Duke Reid could put up a challenge to Coxsone Dodd. As competition between the sound systems began to take shape against other rivals like Duke Reid the Trojan and King Edwards. Coxsone Dodd regularly visited the USA to set up importation of music for his sounds. Coxsone visited cities in the USA such as Cincinnati, Miami, New Orleans, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Georgia searching for selected exclusive music. Rivalry between the sound systems became so intensive that it even led to the scratching out of titles, names of the artist, and other details from the record label of the most requested tunes by the crowd, but on the contrary most of the records sound systems played were often never went on general release and these records were often renamed to preserve their elitism that other sound system proprietors could not go abroad and able purchase because they had no idea of the real name of the tunes. | |
