Jamaica to Toronto:
Soul, Funk & Reggae 1967-1974
CD & 2xLP
LITA 019
CD Available July 11th North America,
July 31st Rest of World
2xLP Available August 2006
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1.) JO-JO AND THE FUGITIVES
Fugitive Song
2.) EDDIE SPENCER
If This Is Love (I’d Rather Be Lonely)
3.) JO-JO AND THE FUGITIVES
Chips-Chicken-Banana Split - FULL MP3
4.) JACKIE MITTOO
Grand Funk
5.) LLLOYD DELPRATT
Together
6.) COUGARS
I Wish It Would Rain
7.) JOHNNIE OSBOURNE
African Wake
8.) RAM
Love Is The Answer
9.) BOB AND WISDOM
I Believe In Music
10.) THE SHEIKS
Eternal Love
11.) WAYNE McGHIE & THE SOUNDS OF JOY
Fire (She Need Water)
12.) COUGARS
Right On
13.) EDDIE SPENCER
You're So Good To Me Baby
14.) THE HITCH-HIKERS FEAT. THE MIGHTY POPE
Mr. Fortune
15.) NOEL ELLIS
Memories
16.) WAYNE McGHIE
Here We Go Again
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News & Events:
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Jamaica to Toronto Record Release Party
July 15 @ Harbourfront Centre, Toronto - FREE SHOW
feat. Lloyd Delpratt, Noel Ellis, The Mighty Pope, Jay Douglas (Cougars), Bob & Wisdom, Everton Pablo Paul (Cougars, Wayne McGhie, Jackie Mittoo), and many more. |
* Featuring such Studio One greats as Jackie Mittoo & Lloyd Delpratt
* 36-page deluxe booklet, gatefold digipak
* Exclusive interviews w/ each band
* Unseen photos, posters, adverts...
* Double-LP w/ thick-gatefold jacket
In 1963, the flight from Jamaica to Toronto was 8 hours. Today it’s 3 1/2. Countless people have made the dwindling journey over the years, but in the sixties and seventies there was a new breed of traveler: the finest ska, rocksteady, and reggae recording artists the West Indies have ever produced. We’re talking Studio One, Treasure Isle, Trojan, and WIRL veterans Jackie Mittoo, Johnnie Osbourne, Wayne McGhie, Lloyd Delpratt, The Mighty Pope, Noel Ellis, Jo-Jo Bennett, and many more. Arriving in their new Canadian home, these talented singers, songwriters, musicians, and performers simply did what came naturally to them. One by one, they hit the studio and captured some of the hardest tunes this side of Kingston. Jamaica to Toronto: Soul Funk and Reggae 1967-1974, details this crucial sonic migration and stands tall as the second helping of Light In The Attic’s new Jamaica to Toronto series, compiled by DJ/Canadian music historian Sipreano, along with Light In The Attic.
Jamaica to Toronto has been over three years in the making, a combination of deep crates, exhaustive research, and foundational tales presented with the same attention to detail as 2004’s Wayne McGhie & The Sounds Of Joy release (LITA 008), the initial release in the Jamaica to Toronto series. The CD version of Jamaica to Toronto is accompanied with a 36-page book, exploding with unseen archival materials and extensive liner notes.
The 16 songs on Jamaica to Toronto range from the in-demand Northern Soul attack of Eddie Spencer’s "If This Is Love (I’d Rather Be Lonely)" to Jo-Jo And The Fugitives' unknown break-beat monster, "Chips-Chicken-Banana Split". Taken from his 1971 album Wishbone, Mittoo's "Grand Funk" sounds like a Jamaican Santana, while The Hitch-Hikers Featuring The Mighty Pope represent raw funk of the highest order on the righteous "Mr. Fortune". Reggae comes courtesy of dancehall don Johnnie Osbourne’s "African Wake" as well as the magical "Memories" from Noel Ellis (whose Summer Records self-titled LP is the next release in Light In The Attic's ongoing Jamaica to Toronto series - with over a half-dozen more titles and numerous 45s slatted for release). Jamaica to Toronto is only the beginning, so sit back and buckle your safety belt; this musical flight is about to take off...
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