Welcome to a new podcast by The Vineyard, selected and mixed by Dj Lightah.
This one focusses on the ultimate niceness of two music gernes combined: Soulreggae!
As many of you know reggae artists have always been inspired by other forms of music and vice versa. This mix is an attempt to bring you the best these two worlds have to offer.
The track is non-stop, no voice overs and is unedited but has a soudquality of 5/5. Some mixes were botched but not too bad. Please add a comment if you liked it.
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Tracklist & comments.

1. Vineyard Intro (0:32)
2. The Chosen Few - I'm Going Down For The Last Time Version (2:51)
The Chosen Few evolved from The Federals and were mostly recorded by Derrick Harriot or Lloyd Charmers, they were expert in mixing soul with reggae as you can hear on this track.

3. Carl Bradney - Slipping Into Darkness (3:05)
Appears on Darker Than Blue: Soul From Jamdown (blood & fire) & describes the struggle of young jamaicans to be accepted in the world.

4. Derrick Harriott & The Chosen Few - Message From A Blackman (3:51)
A cover from the great soul group The Temptations, a lot of other artist cover it as well but this one is sure to be the finest version.

5. Al Brown - Love And Happiness (5:27)
Originally from Al Green, it was was ranked number 98 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.

6. Al Brown - Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City (3:26)
"Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City" is a 1974 R&B song written by Michael Price and Dan Walsh and first recorded by Bobby "Blue" Bland for the ABC Dunhill album Dreamer. While Bland scored a minor hit with the song, landing in the top ten of the R&B charts, it is perhaps best known through cover versions and samples. While it is ostensibly a love song, some critics have also heard it as a lament on urban poverty and hopelessness; the reggae singer Al Brown's cover version even changes most of the lyrics to magnify this emphasis.

7. Alton Ellis - It's A Shame (2:48)
Credited to The Spinners, this version by Alton Ellis appears on Soul Jazz Records Studio 1 Funk 45's
8. Barry Biggs - One Bad Apple (2:48)
"One Bad Apple" was a single released by The Osmonds in December 1970. The single hit number-one on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart in February 1971 and stayed there for five weeks. The song was written by George Jackson who originally had the Jackson 5 in mind when he wrote it. According to Donny Osmond, Michael Jackson later told him that the Jackson 5 almost recorded this song first, but instead chose to record ABC instead.

9. Cynty And The Monkeys - Lady Lady (3:03)
This cover was produced by Lee Perry and is one of the few tracks ever released by this group.
10. Tomorrow's children - sister big stuff (2:53)
This killer version of Jean Knight's Stax hit track takes you on a funky reggae trip, used to be sought after by collectors worldwide since Tomorrow's Children were hard to find. Thanks to Trojan Records this is no longer the case.
11. Delroy Wilson - Inner City Blues (4:10)
Originally a song by Marvin Gaye, released as the third and final single from his 1971 landmark album, What's Going On. The song depicted the ghettos of inner-city America as it discussed how the bleak situation would lead to someone wanting to holler and throw ones hands up.

12. Inner Circle - Rock The Boat (2:49)
A disco song by the group Hues Corporation in 1974. It is sometimes considered the first disco record to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States.

13. Messengers - Crowded City (3:01)
This one was also covered by The Melodians but originally it was a theme from the tune Smiling Faces by The Temptations. The Messengers were a short lived group consisting of (among others) Ken boothe, Busty Brown & Lloyd Charmers.

14. Judy Mowatt - Rescue Me (3:07)
Before she became a member of Bob Marleys backing band The I-Threes Judy recorded this cover from Fontella Bass for Studio 1. The hit version of the song is often misattributed to Aretha Franklin because of a very similar voice.

15. Matumbi - Brother Louie (3:05)
"Brother Louie" was a song about an interracial love affair. The title was written and sung by Errol Brown and Tony Wilson of the group Hot Chocolate and was a top 10 UK chart hit for the band in 1973.one of the earliest and most influential is also one of the least known in the US and one whose music is frustratingly difficult to find. Matumbi, whose greatest claim to fame on this side of the Atlantic (europe) is as a launch pad for the career of producer/dub master Dennis Bovell, was one of Great Brittains greatest soul-roots bands.

16. Marcia Griffiths - Band Of Gold (3:14)
First published in 1955 the song was remade by Freda Payne. Almost immediately following its release the Payne record became an instant pop smash, reaching #3 in the US and hitting #1 on the UK singles chart and remaining there for six weeks in September 1970, giving Payne her first gold record. Marcia Griffiths probably covered it after her break up with Bob Andy.

17. Pat Rhoden - Living For The City (3:01)
A 1973 hit single by Stevie Wonder for the Tamla (Motown) label, the record is driven by a slow bass synth groove (provided by the enormous TONTO modular synthesiser) that manages to exude a certain amount of tension, an appropriate soundscape for the angry social commentary of the song.

18. Marcia Griffits Jingle - Light eyez (0:28)
Thanks Macia

19. Norma Fraser - Respect (2:50)
This 1868 track is a cover from Aretha Franklin's signature song, recorded @ Studio1

20. Donovan Carlos - Be Thankfull (3:03)
This 1972 track by William DeVaughn instantly takes you to the back seet of a 70's lowrider cruising in the sun. Don Carlos began singing in 1973 as a member of Black Uhuru but this one he released as Donovan Carlos for Lee Perry's Black Arc studio.

21. Carl dawkins & the wailers - cloud nine (3:09)
A cover from the 1968 hit single recorded by The Temptations for the Motown label and won Motown its first Grammy Award. The lyrics for the song were about the struggles and pains of living poor, as opposed to being about relationship and love troubles. The broke, unemployed, and despondent main character in the song proclaims that he gets over all of his problems by "riding high on 'cloud nine'". This has been interpreted by many as a reference to drug use (duh).

22. Matumbi - Law Of The Land (3:06)
Another great Matumbi cover from The Temptations.

23. Lloyd Charmers - Just My Imagination (3:23)
When released as a single, "Just My Imagination" became the third Temptations song to reach number one on the US Billboard Hot 100. The single held the number one position on the Billboard Pop Singles Chart for two weeks in 1971. "Just My Imagination" was the result of one of the few times that Whitfield relented and produced a ballad as a single for the group. Whitfield and Strong wrote the song in 1969, but with the Temptations' psychedelic soul singles consistently keeping them in the US Top 20, Whitfield and Strong decided to shelve the composition and wait for the right time to record it. In late 1970, the Temptations' single "Ungena Za Ulimwengu (Unite the World)", a psychedelic soul song about world peace, failed to reach the Top 30, and Whitfield decided to record and release "Just My Imagination" as the next single.

24. The Gaylettes - Groovin' (3:11)
Groovin' is a single released in 1967 by The Young Rascals that became a number one hit in May 1967. It was subsequently recorded by the likes of Booker T. & the M.G.'s (1967), Aretha Franklin (1968), Gladys Knight & the Pips (1968), and Marvin Gaye (1969).

25. Norma Frazier - First Cut is the Deepest (3:08)
A 1967 song written and sung by Cat Stevens but best known for the rendition of Rod Steward (1976). For Norma it became her N°1 hit record.

26. Lloyd Charmers - Darker Than Blue (2:58)
Originally by Curtis Mayfield this song is one of Lloyds first solo songs after leaving The Charmers, The Uniques & The Messengers.

27. Derrick Harriott - Eighteen With A Bullet (3:42)
Perhaps the reason DJs loved this more than listeners is that it’s really aimed at them. It brings back memories of the Jimi Cliff movie: "The harder they come". Originally by one of the few white soul singers Pete Wingfield.

28. Junior Byles - If You Don't Know Me By Now (3:08)
Originally by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, which became their first hit after being released as a single in 1972, topping the R&B chart and peaking at number three on the Pop chart. It was later covered by the English pop/soul band Simply Red, also becoming their best-known hit after reaching number one on the U.S. Hot 100 on July 15, 1989 and peaking at number two in the UK Singles Chart.

29. The Chosen Few - do your thing (3:17)
Another Chosen few cover of a great Soul Classic by Bernie Mac & Isaac Hayes. Samuel L. Jackson sings it in the 2008 movie Soul Men, which is just funny but a crappy movie.

30. Chosen Few - I Second That Emotion (3:02)
Motown Legend Smokey Robinson had great success with this one. The song finds lead singer Smokey Robinson courting a girl who, weary of the game of love, prefers to string her men along and not get romantically involved. Robinson "wants no part" in such a relationship, but promises that if the girl changes her mind, he'll be around.

31. The Gaylettes - Here Comes That Feeling (2:34)
The Gaylettes second feature in this line up is a great closer for this soulreggae mix. Judy Mowatt, Beryl Lawson and Merle Clemonson. A.k.a. The Gaylets. Formed in 1967. The group split 1970 when Lawson and Clemonson left for America, escaping the violence & poverty. It's a cover but I couldn't find the original artist, sorry. Feel free to drop me a line if you know it.

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Lightah.