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  • Performer Lee 'Scratch' Perry
  • Title Lee 'Scratch' Perry - Reggae Greats
  • Country US
  • Style Reggae, Roots Reggae, Dub
  • Other formats AIFF FLAC AA MIDI AU DXD RA
  • Genre Reggae
  • Size MP3 1302 mb
  • Size FLAC 1354 mb
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Reggae Greats: Lee "Scratch" Perry is a 1984 Island Records compilation album featuring the work of Lee "Scratch" Perry. It concentrates mainly on his work as a producer/composer rather than a singer. Perry only sings on three of the songs. All of the tracks are from the period between 1976 and 1979 and were recorded at Perry's Black Ark studio.

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With its contributions from such eminent members of the Lee "Scratch" Perry stable as the Heptones, Max Romeo, and Junior Murvin, this album could have been titled Lee Perry 101. You can start a lot of arguments among reggae fans trying to establish the single best Perry compilation; despite a reggae marketplace glutted with low-rent bootlegs and just plain sloppy or shoddy "best-ofs," there are still a good dozen or so compilations on the market that can lay claim to indispensability

Lee "Scratch" Perry (born Rainford Hugh Perry, on 20th March 1936, in Kendal, Jamaica) is one of the most influential people in the development of reggae and dub music in Jamaica. Perry began his career in the late 1950s working with Clement Coxsone Dodd's sound system. He eventually performed a variety of important tasks at Studio One as well as recording about thirty songs, but the pair eventually stopped working together due to personality and financial conflicts.

Reggae Greats: Lee "Scratch" Perry is a 1984 Island Records compilation album featuring the work of Lee Perry. The album is generally considered a good introduction to Perry's Black Ark work, and is often chosen as the best single album by Perry, but with tracks drawn from Perry's popular late 1970s albums, it has also been.

Lee "Scratch" Perry - Babylon Fall 05:45. Lee "Scratch" Perry, The Full Experience - Disco Devil 03:30. Lee Perry and the Upsetters - Bird in Hand 03:20. Lee "Scratch" Perry - Dreadlocks In Moonlight 03:46. Lee "Scratch" Perry - Kung Fu Man 02:44. Lee "Scratch" Perry - Soul Fire 03:52. Lee "Skratch" Perry - Evilous Dub 03:36. Lee "Scratch" Perry - Nice Time 05:10. Lee 'Scratch' Perry - Lee Perry Special Dub 03:54. Prince Jazzbo, Max Romeo - Ital Corner 03:36. Lee "Scratch" Perry - Reggae Emperor 03:40. Lee "Scratch" Perry - Funky Joe 05:12. Lee "Scratch" Perry - Africa Stand 02:51.

Tracklist Hide Credits

1 –The Heptones Party Time
Written-By – Sibbles*
 4:03
2 –Junior Murvin Police & Thieves
Written-By – Murvin*, Perry*
 3:54
3 –Keith Rowe Groovy Situation
Written-By – Rowe*
 3:26
4 –Lee Perry Soul Fire
Written-By – Perry*
 3:54
5 –Max Romeo War In A Babylon
Written-By – Perry*, Romeo*
 4:49
6 –Jah Lion Wisdom
Written-By – Perry*
 3:32
7 –George Faith To Be A Lover
Written-By – Faith*
 5:59
8 –Lee Perry Roast Fish & Cornbread
Written-By – Perry*
 3:50
9 –Prince Jazzbo Croaking Lizard
Written-By – Perry*
 3:25
10 –Lee Perry Dreadlocks In Moonlight
Written-By – Perry*
 3:46

Companies, etc.

  • Made By – Universal M & L, UK
  • Marketed By – Spectrum Music
  • Distributed By – Spectrum Music
  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – Spectrum Music
  • Copyright (c) – Spectrum Music
  • Published By – Blue Mountain Music
  • Published By – Copyright Control

Credits

  • Liner Notes – Stuart Batsford

Notes

Originally Released in 1985

Made in UK.

All titles published by Blue Mountain Music Ltd except3. MCPS, 7, Copyright Control.

1, 3, 4, 7 ℗ 1977 2, 5, 6, 8-10 ℗ 1976

℗ 1985 Spectrum Music
© 1998 Spectrum Music

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode (Text): 7 31455 44602 9
  • Barcode (Scanned): 731455446029
  • Matrix / Runout: 5544602 10509751 01 &
  • Mastering SID Code: IFPI L134
  • Matrix / Runout (CD Mould Text): MADE IN THE UK BY UNIVERSAL M&L
  • Label Code: LC 5064
  • Rights Society: BIEM/MCPS
  • Other (Distribution Code): PY 506

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
MLPS 9792 Lee Perry Reggae Greats ‎(LP, Comp) Mango MLPS 9792 US 1984
846 573-4 Lee Perry Reggae Greats ‎(Cass, Comp) Mango 846 573-4 UK & Europe 1990
SVLP 190 Lee 'Scratch' Perry* Reggae Greats: Lee 'Scratch' Perry ‎(LP, Comp, RE, 180) Simply Vinyl, Island Records SVLP 190 UK 2000
162-539 792-2 Lee Perry Reggae Greats ‎(CD, Comp, RE) Mango, Island Records 162-539 792-2 US Unknown
RRCT 10, IRGC 12, 846 573-4 Lee 'Scratch' Perry* Reggae Greats: Lee 'Scratch' Perry ‎(Cass, Comp, RE, Pap) Mango, Island Records, Island Records RRCT 10, IRGC 12, 846 573-4 UK 1990


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