Trojan Records

Naughty, naughty song called Big One.

Came out on the Trojan label and also on the Trojan label was Dandy Livingston from 1972.

What you want to make those eyes at me for? Just some great Trojan reggae in the early 70s to round things off.

But I do have a bit of a special ending song for us today.

It's a track by Edwin Starr.

Oh, Milk Banana has, I believe, some new material out.

But other than that, like, what have I been playing? I've been playing an absurd amount of Trojan records, you know, the old, like, the Skybox set or the Rocksteadybox set, the Trojan records compilations.

um and then i would say finally i've uh jumped back on 90s hip-hop dos effects because it's summer and they are so fun that you know i'm listening to dos effects from the 90s

nice nice and then uh what class do you feel should be mandatory before graduating high school today

During the Boss Reggae period, Derek Harriot really was, I think, almost leading the pack in terms of what people were buying around that time.

So from 1968 on the Big Shot label, that was a UK subsidiary of Trojan back then, Big Shot, uh that was sufferer by the kingstonians and then i followed it directly with its instrumental cut which uh came out in 1969 the following year from the crystal lights that's called splashdown and i've got that as a blank a lot of these crystal lights instrumentals i have as um pre-releases from derrick's label so like i said crystal was his label um but a lot of them i got as uh pre-release, I just happen to find them as pre-releases, and they usually have a stamp on the middle label, the blank label, which says Derek's One Stop Record Village, 86 King Street, Kingston, phone 22691.

That's what the stamp says.

So when playing those, I often say that's on Derek's One Stop, but really it's the crystal label.

So obviously he had his connections and he had it sorted.

In the UK, he could get his productions released there.

by Trojan Records under license in the United States.

He could put them out on his own crystal records label, but they were manufactured and distributed in the United States and in Jamaica.