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" ...I was seven years old. It was in 1963, in Studio One. I lived in the countryside, in Clarendon. Two friends, Ernest Wilson and Pete Austin, who were members of Clarendonians, took me along to Kingston, where I met formidable people: Bob Marley, Alton Ellis, Delroy Wilson, Ken Boothe, John Holt, Jackie Mittoo, Gift Drummond. It was very amusing. I imagined that Studio One was like Motown, with Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, The Supremes, all these formidable people, yuh know? It was thus until I record my first song. The ska left the place to the rocksteady. I remember that Bob Marley piled up three cases so that I can reach the microphone, because I was too small. I lived in the house of Mister Dodd, with his family. Every morning, I went to the studio with him, we opened the studio together, and every evening we closed the studio and we returned to the house. It was this kind of relation. I was a child all the time in the studio. It was inevitable that I learn so much from things while going to Studio One… It was a good studio." (source : www.reggaefrance.com)

At first one can hear a very young Freddie McGregor in "After The Laughter", soon followed by tunes he recorded being a youthman.
A lot of approx. 1970 Studio One sides here. Like the different cut to Rastaman Camp, different from the well-known Bobby Bobylon version. I knew some of these beautiful young Freddie tunes from the old Limewire days. How great to have all these early tracks now compiled and for the taking. This 197X compilation was made by JuJu (give thanks!)