CHOSEN FEW - DO YOUR THING / YOUR THING (VERSION) - ORIGINAL SONG BIRD LABEL
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THIS IS PART OF A 'REGGAE' COLLECTION BOUGHT BY A UK COLLECTOR FROM A JAMAICAN WHO COLLECTED LATE 60'S AND EARLY 70'S REGGAE AND SKA. THERE WERE A LOT OF WHITE LABELS AND RARITIES AMONGST THE COLLECTION AND PRETTY MUCH ALL ARE ORIGINAL JAMAICAN PRESSINGS. AND REMEMBER AS THESE ARE EARLY JAMAIACAN PRESSINGS WHILST THE PRODUCTION IS USUALLY EXCELLENT, THE PRESSING PLANTS WERE NOT AS GOOD AS UK PRESSING PLANTS OF THE SAME ERA, SO QUALITY WILL NOT BE AS, SAY, A PARLOPHONE VINYL OF THER SAME ERA. BUT THOSE OF YOU WHO COLLECT ORIGINAL JAMAICAN REGGAE WILL OF COURSE KNOW THIS.
CHOSEN FEW - DO YOUR THING / YOUR THING (VERSION)
SONG BIRD SB-1070, 1972
RECORD VG/VG+. NO JUMPS OR SKIPS, A BIT CRACKLY, ALTHOUGH MANY OF THESE OLD JAMAICAN 7” FROM LATE 60’S / EARLY 70’S ARE.
THE LABELS ON THIS SINGLE HAVE BEEN BLACKED OUT, NORMAL FOR JAMAICAN DJ’S AT THE TIME – SEE BELOW FOR REASON:
Jamaican reggae imports often have their labels blacked out, scratched off, or completely torn off due to sound system rivalry and secrecy.
During the golden eras of ska, rocksteady, and roots reggae, Kingston’s music scene was dominated by massive, competing sound systems like Coxsone Dodd's Downbeat and Duke Reid's Trojan. The ultimate competitive advantage for a sound system selector (DJ) was playing an exclusive track—the ultimate "exclusive record" that no other sound system owned.
To protect their secret musical weapons, selectors used several tactical methods:
- Preventing "Spying": Rival selectors would frequently hang around the DJ booth to steal the song titles or artist names from the spinning records. Blacking out the label with ink or scratching it off entirely made it impossible for rivals to identify the track.
- Protecting the Source: If a selector found a rare, unreleased Jamaican track, hiding the label prevented rivals from going to the same record store or distributor to buy a copy.
- Renaming the Track: Selectors would often completely white-out or black-out the label and write a fake name on the record. When they introduced the song to the crowd, they would use the fake name, further sending rival sound systems on a wild goose chase trying to find a record that didn't exist under that title.
This extreme culture of secrecy eventually led producers to press music onto blank labels (often called "pre-releases" or "blanks") and cut custom, one-off acetate discs known as dubplates, ensuring that exclusivity remained built directly into the vinyl.
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