FLAC (tracks) / Mp3 320 kbps | Disco, Jazz, Reggae, Soul, World | 1:01:54 | 1CD | 141 Mb / 241 Mb• The track listing for ‘Doing Our Thing’ reads like a roll call of some of the best of Jamaica’s greatest ever singers, deejays, musicians and producers and the selection opens with one of reggae’s first ever artists to break into the international charts. In 1971 the inimitable Dave Barker, as one half of ‘Dave & Ansel Collins’, hit all around the globe with ‘Double Barrel’ which was inspired by two American records ‘The Funkie Moon’ by Smokey Johnson & Company and ‘Party Time’ by Ramsey Lewis. The music makers from Jamaica had always leaned on American, Cuban, and occasionally British, elements in creating their magic and, in doing so, attained their own voice whose worldwide reputation is out of all proportion to its humble beginnings and circumstances. Like the Jamaican people, whose motto is ”out of many, one people”, the roots of Jamaican music are embedded deep in the music of elsewhere but as its branches grew they too spread worldwide •Tracklist:1 Johnny Dollar – Dave Barker 02:392 Double Heavy – Dave Barker 02:423 Life of a Millionaire – Dave Barker 02:074 Travelling On – Lloyd Charmers 03:075 Do Your Thing – Glen Adams 04:106 Too Late to Turn Back Now – Alton Ellis 03:077 Too Late – Augustus Pablo 03:138 Thin Line Between Love and Hate – B.B. Seaton 02:599 South African Reggae – Cedric Brooks 03:1410 Cornbread, Earl & Me – Dillinger 03:0211 Supernatural Thing – Richard Ace 07:4512 Breezing – Willie Lindo 06:3713 Ain’t Too Proud to Beg – Junior Byron 03:2014 Run Babylon Run – Roots Convention 03:1215 You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine – John Holt 04:0016 Ain’t That Loving You – Hortense Ellis 03:2417 Special Request to the Manhattans – Phillip Frazer 03:07