{"id":1320,"date":"2008-11-01T14:57:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T13:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2008-11-01T21:30:17","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T20:30:17","slug":"various-artists-greensleeves-records-19771978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/various-artists-greensleeves-records-19771978\/","title":{"rendered":"Various Artists – Greensleeves Records – 1977\/1978"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Reggae Regular<\/strong> \u2013 Where Is Jah<\/a><\/p>\n

Reggae Regular<\/strong> \u2013 Jah Is Here<\/a><\/p>\n

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Doctor Alimantado<\/strong> \u2013 Born For A Purpose<\/a><\/p>\n

The Rebels <\/strong>\u2013 Reason For Living<\/a><\/p>\n

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Roots<\/strong> \u2013 Mash Down<\/a><\/p>\n

Roots<\/strong> \u2013 Solja Man Skank<\/a><\/p>\n

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Doctor Alimantado<\/strong> \u2013 Best Dressed Chicken In The Town<\/a><\/p>\n

Doctor Alimantado<\/strong> \u2013 Can\u2019t Conquer Natty Dreadlocks<\/a><\/p>\n

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Wailing Souls & Ranking Trevor<\/strong> \u2013 War<\/a><\/p>\n

Wailing Souls \u2013 <\/strong>Jah Gives Us Life \/ Don\u2019t Feel No Way<\/a><\/p>\n

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Reggae Regular<\/strong> \u2013 The Black Star Liner<\/a><\/p>\n

Reggae Regular<\/strong> \u2013 Where Is Jah<\/a><\/p>\n

It should not be underestimated the importance of Greensleeves Records releasing affordable 7\u2033\u00a0and 12\u2033 records right at the start of the punk explosion.<\/p>\n

Some tracks uploaded here were featured on Capital Radio\u2019s broadcast of the \u00a0Johnny Rotten interview in the summer of 1977 which spread the reggae word further to the young punkers who may well have been listening at the time. This selection chosen by Rotten on Capital Radio\u00a0did Doctor Alimantado no harm at all with some free promotion.<\/p>\n

Uploaded is the first Greensleeves 7\u2033 record release by Reggae Regular, the second 7\u2033 release by Alimantado. Then the seventh release by Roots which is a monster track. The thirteenth release is dedicated to the Baron and Stewart.<\/p>\n

Following these 7\u2033 singles uploaded, the first release on 12\u2033 format on the Greensleeves label, the mighty Wailing Souls, in the original record sleeve design before the \u2018Carnival\u2019 sleeve\u00a0was\u00a0designed (see text from Greensleeves website below).<\/p>\n

As a\u00a0special treat I have\u00a0uploaded the original Reggae Regular 12\u2033 on High School Records from Kingston JA, with the proper hard \u2018Black Star Liner\u2019 track on. Ten minutes plus of the best reggae of the era.\u00a0 The first Greensleeves Records release \u2018Where is Jah\u2019\u00a0is actually the B side of this 12\u2033 release from Jamaica.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Greensleeves began in modest circumstances as a record shop in West Ealing, London, in November 1975. The company was founded by Chris Cracknell and Chris Sedgwick\u00a0and a\u00a0move to Shepherds Bush in 1977 saw the foundation of the thriving record label that is now based just west of London in Isleworth, Middlesex, with a sales and promotion office in New York.<\/p>\n

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The \u2018Carnival Of Reggae History\u2019 12\u2033 sleeve, created by the designer who still works for Greensleeves today, Tony McDermott, became something of a guarantee of quality for the reggae aficionado. By 1980 the record shop had become largely a sideline to the record label.
\nGreensleeves quickly established an identity with acts that provide a continuity between those fledgling days and today: the first few albums included work by Augustus Pablo (the acclaimed Original Rockers album) and Barrington Levy, both of whom still appear on the label.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reggae Regular \u2013 Where Is Jah Reggae Regular \u2013 Jah Is Here Doctor Alimantado \u2013 Born For A Purpose The Rebels \u2013 Reason For Living Roots \u2013 Mash Down Roots \u2013 Solja Man Skank Doctor Alimantado \u2013 Best Dressed Chicken In The Town Doctor Alimantado \u2013 Can\u2019t Conquer Natty Dreadlocks Wailing Souls & Ranking Trevor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1336,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions\/1336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}