Contents - Beth Lesser

playing the ‘Midnight Attraction’- an hour or so of pure Studio One versions.
As Selector Danny Dread recalls, “It was like one or two A.M. – Break out
the Studio Ones. All the sounds did that, all the roots sounds – Jah Love,
even Stur-Gav.”
With all this new momentum swinging in his favor, Mr. Dodd packed it
up and left the island for New York in 1979 leaving the store open but in the
hands of Miss Enid. In New York, Mr. Dodd started back into producing
from his new location in Brooklyn where he began rereleasing a lot of titles
that were out-of-print for years. Although he continued to record new artists
over old rhythms, like Lone Rangers’ Badda Than Them and Earl Sixteen’s
Showcase, he never quite matched his former level of quality and originality.
Nevertheless, through updating his work, Mr. Dodd had ensured that
Studio One riddims would never die. Channel One spent the ‘70s and ‘80s
versioning the old rhythms, as did every future producer, Junjo through Jammy.
Mr. Dodd passed away in 2004, leaving an abundant legacy of innovative
and inspired music for future generations to enjoy , a catalogue of classics that
formed the foundation of the developing dancehall style that came to rule
Jamaican music in the ‘80s and beyond.
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