From the early days of recording at Federal Recording studios before Clement Coxsone Dodd setup his Studio One Recording Studios at 13 Brentford Road in Kingston he and other top sound system operators in Jamaica used the Federal Recording Studios for producing records mainly for their sound systems. Those records were only exclusive to the individual sound system operators who produced them especially for competing against other sound systems. The records were mainly 78rpm made of shellac, sometimes acetate dub plates made of soft wax that were exclusive only to the sound system operators! During the late 50s ain into to the 60s record producers paid recording artists and musicians one English shilling per recording session. Recording artists would often make different versions of the same song for a number of sound system operators! Some of the recording artists never took any money as they were more interested in hearing their recording voice played on the turntable of the top two sound system: Coxsone The Downbeat Ruler and Duke The Trojan. When sound system operators decided to setup their own recording studios in the sixties and began to audition local talents from all over the Island of Jamaica. Coxsone in general got the best and greatest recording artists for his Studio One Record Label. Recording artists such as The Wailers, Ken Booth, John Holt, Bob Andy, Horace Andy and Theophilous Beckford, Sugar Minott, Marcia Griffiths, The Heptones, Johnny Osbourne, Delroy Wilson and Dennis Brown! | | In the 1960s Clement Dodd would produce mainly recorded blues typed ska music on 45rpm singles, that was the traditional way of record producing as it was the accepted norm as a result of the original sound system culture from the late 50s onward. The major producers' first forays into record retailing to the public was mainly singles, mainly limited amounts of various artists on compilation lps, compiled old old 45rpm singles. Two successful compilation albums were "Oldies But Goodies" Vol 1 and Vol 2. Best instrumental Lp album of the 60s was Roland Alphonso's "Strictly For You!" |
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