Beat Street / 60 Years

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Album Info

Release Date: 1960

Label: Moo's

"Beat Street" refers to Maxfield Avenue in Kingston, which predated Orange Street as the city's musical mecca, according to Lloyd Clarke in the 2006 Vintage Boss DVD, The Lloyd Paro Clarke Story, produced by Colby Graham.

Style choice should be Jamaica Boogie or Boogie Shuffle, the music that carried the swing before Ska.