The Techniques & Friends

Winston Riley's Rock Steady & Early Reggae 1968 - 1969

Various Artists

The Techniques & Friends cd cover

1) Dave Barker - Your Love Is A Game

2) The Mad Lads - So Afraid

3) The Techniques - I Feel Alive Again

4) The Techniques - Heart Of A Man

5) The Techniques - What Am I To Do

6) The Techniques - Where Were You
 
7) The Techniques - The Reason Why
 
8) The Shades - Never Gonna Give You Up
 
9) The Techniques - Just One Smile

10) The Techniques - Man Of My World

11) The Mad Lads - Mother Nature

12) The Mad Lads - I Never Know

13) The Techniques  - You Are My Everything

14) The Techniques - Time Has Come
 
15) The Shades - She's Gonna Marry Me
back button Nice CD from Dub Store Records based in Tokyo, Japan. 15 tracks produced by Winston Riley between 1968 -1969. Featuring Dave Barker, The Techniques, The Shades and The Mad Lads (not to be confused with the USA Stax records recording vocal group). Winston Riley started his career as a singer with an enviable track record, having formed the Techniques in 1962 and hitting the top of the charts two years later with the splendid 'Little Did You Know' for Duke Reid's Treasure Isle label. When the frantic ska beat slowed down and turned into rock steady Winston remained the only permanent component of the Techniques, arguably Jamaica's finest vocal group. Winston Riley was at the forefront of the Jamaican music business for over forty years, singer, songwriter, arranger and producer. He had been making plans for a new studio and museum in his Orange Street record shop right up to his death in 2012. Terrific black & white photograph on the CD cover of the Techniques. Booklet notes by Chris Lane. Issued on Dub Store Records DSR CD 016 Japan.

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