Put On Your Best Dress: Sonia Pottinger Ska & Rock Steady 1966-1967

2019 release

Digitally remastered and expanded edition.

Between the summers of 1966 and '68, the sound of rock steady dominated Jamaica's musical landscape, and throughout this time few producers proved more successful or influential than the island's premiere female music maker, Sonia Pottinger. In recognition of her achievements, Trojan Records gathered a number of her best-known tracks in the style on Put On Your Best Dress, a popular long player released by the company on it's Attack subsidiary in 1990.

Now, almost 30 years later, the LP has been expanded to include the very best of Ms. Pottinger's output from the early rock steady period, thus creating a superb stand-alone collection of high quality Jamaican sounds. Including a multitude of Jamaican hits plus over a dozen tracks new to CD, this superb compilation has been stunningly repackaged with brand new stylish artwork, ensuring it now looks as good as it sounds.

- Disc 1 -
1 What a Agony - the Conquerors
2 Gun Fever - the Valentines
3 Move Up - Linval Martin & the Vibrators
4 Play It Cool - Eric 'Monty' Morris
5 Pata Pata Rock Steady - Patsy Todd
6 All in One - the Valentines
7 Put on Your Best Dress - Eric 'Monty' Morris
8 Tell It to Me - Stranger & Patsy
9 Won't You Come Home, Girl - the Conquerors

Bonus Tracks:
12 Don't Want to Be Hurt - Stranger & Patsy
13 Go Back Home - the Harmonizers
13 Treat Me Right - the Conquerors
15 Certify My Love - Stranger & Patsy
16 Sensation of Love - Joe Higgs
17 Stars Above - the Webber Sisters
18 Sweet Little Angel - the Conquerors
19 A Man Is Two-Faced - Patsy Todd
20 Be My Queen - the Harmonizers
21 Don't Come to My House No More - Joe Higgs
22 Ring Ding '67 - Count Lasher
23 Down the Train Line - Stranger & Pasty
24 Gay Drums - Leslie Butler & Count Ossie
25 Sock It to Me Baby - the Valentines
25 Your Photograph - Stranger & Patsy
25 Nyah Bongo - Count Ossie
26 Move Up Calypso - Al & the Vibrators

Disc 2 - Bonus Tracks
1 Stop the Violence - the Valentines
2 Stop Them - Hazel & the Jolly Boys
3 Drop the Ratchet - Stranger Cole & the Conquerors
4 Winchester Rock Steady - Leslie Butler
5 Winnie the Whip - Count Lasher
6 Musical Pressure - Al & the Vibrators
7 Give Me the Right - Stranger & Patsy
8 Deep Down - Hazel & the Jolly Boys
9 Tonight - Stranger & Patsy
10 Seven Heaven - the Fugitives
11 You Took My Love - Patsy Todd
12 Oh Ye Mahee - Stranger Cole & the Conquerors
13 Skilamy - Aston & Yen
14 Mally Sally - Stranger & Gladdy
15 If It Don't Work Out - Joe White
16 One Love - Stranger & Gladdy
17 On That Day - the Conquerors
18 Chances - Stranger & Gladdy
19 Living Soul - Jo Jo Bennett
20 Rudies All Around - Stranger & Gladdy
21 This Is Thunder - the Dingle Brothers
22 I Held Your Hand - Patsy Todd
23 Listen to Me Baby - the Conquerors
24 We Shall Overcome - Stranger & Gladdy
25 Give Love a Try - Patsy Todd
26 Thank de Lard - the Dingle Brothers
27 Loving Love - Patsy Todd
28 Christmas Time Again - Reuben Anderson