Artist: VA
Title Of Album: Queens Of Jamaica
Year Of Release: 19 September 2008
Label: Our Distr (Soulfood Music)
Genre: Reggae
Quality: MP3 / Joint Stereo
Bitrate: VBR kbit/s / 44.1 Khz
Total Time: 62:03 min
Total Size: 77 mB

Track Listing for Queens of Jamaica - Ladies who made Reggae

1. Rita Marley & The Soulettes – (You’re) My Desire
2. Joya Lanis – Kansas City
3. Phyllis Dillon – Don’t Touch Me Tomato
4. The Webber Sisters – It’s You I Love
5. Dawn Penn – I Let You Go Boy
6. Nora Dean – Barbwire (O Mama)
7. Judy Mowatt and the Gaylettes – Zipa Dee Do Da
8. Dorothy Reid – Work It
9. Ken Parker & Dorothy Russell – Sincerely
10. Girl Satchmo – Take You For a Ride
11. Nora Dean – Angie La La
12. Joya Landis – When The Lights Are Low
13. Hortense Ellis – Unexpected Places
14. Carole Cole & Sister P – Ethiopia
15. Cynthia Richards – Aily I
16. Hortense Ellis – With All My Heart
17. Phyllis Dillon – Something
18. Dorothy Reid – Give It To Me
19. Joya and John – I’ll Be Lonely
20. Derrick Morgan & Hortense Ellis – I’m Gone

• The ladies who made reggae have been unjustly overlooked so "Queens of Jamaica" is a welcome compilation and a joy to listen to.

• 20 tracks by the best female singers recorded between 1967 & 1977 by producers like Bunny Lee and Duke Reid (male, of course!)

• Rocksteady diva Phyllis Dillon ("Don't Touch Me Tomato") appears under three different names, Rita Marley's group the Soulettes sing "My Desire" and 16-year-old Judy Mowatt performs a lively version of "Zipadeedoda”-- a few years later she would join Rita in the I Threes, backing Bob Marley