1st RECORDING OF: The Tide Is High - Paragons (1966/67)

 There is a good show on Boss Radio 66 atm. Jamaica 66. Part of DJ Roulette you may find it on Mixcloud. It is the transitional sound as ska becomes Reggae.

The Maytals-Do The Reggay 1968

 First use of the word Reggae in a song.

The Maytals & Toots - Bam Bam - 1966

 Notting Hill Carnival is celebrating 60 years so I thought we could have some reggae from 1966. Not that it was called Reggae in 66. 

The Maytals 1968 single "Do the Reggay" was the first song to use the word "reggae", coining the name of the genre and introducing it to a global audience.^[6][7][8]

Toots and the Maytals - Wikipedia

Junior Murvin Police and Thieves (1976)

 Police and Thieves - Wikipedia

Dawn Penn - You Don't Love Me (No, No, No) - Top Of The Pops - Thursday 9th June 1994

 You Don't Love Me (No, No, No) - Wikipedia Bo Diddley got a co-credit for the writing.

Althea & Donna - "Uptown Top Ranking" 1978

 So a lot of people associate Reggae with the sunshine. This is one of my top ten reggae tunes.

Althea & Donna - "Uptown Top Ranking"

 Top Of The Pops - 26/01/78.

Loved this. I think it was Peely who popularised it.

Althea & Donna - Wikipedia

Dandy Livingstone - Suzanne Beware of the Devil 1972

 Remember this one?

SIR GIBBS People Grudgeful Amalgamated AMG822A 1968

 The original of the below song.

Malcolm X · The Skatalites 1964

 Heard this the other day on the radio probably Gideon Coe.

Susan Cadogan ~ Hurt So Good 1975

 Simply brilliant. Susan Cadogan - Wikipedia

Susan Cadogan Hurt So Good 1975

 The sound of 50 years ago. Did you like it? Song wiki

Uptown Top Ranking

 Got a request played on the WFMU reggae show Ranking Full Stop. We listen every week it's really good.

Watch Althea and Donna on Top of the Pops 1978 here

Dennis Brown Westbound Train 1973

 Heard this reggae tune on Ranking Full Stop. It's good. Listen here. I recognise the guitar figure but I can't remember where it's from. P.s. Just remembered it - Love and Happiness Al Green.

Lorna Bennett Breakfast in Bed 1972

 Reggae version here of the song made famous by Dusty Springfield.wiki. Just heard on the show Ranking Full Stop on WFMU.

Susan Cadogan ~ Hurt So Good 1975

 A few reggae songs for you. 

Sophia George - Girlie Girlie 1986

 Don't post much reggae but thought why not? I can't remember where I first heard this. 

The Dug Out Club Bristol - my memories

 

When I was a teenager I went to printing college Bristol as part of my apprenticeship. We would stay in rooms Monday to Thursday. It was such that you wouldn't stay in so went out every night even if it was going to the cinema. I had a few mates there Steve from Trowbridge who was a punk and had seditionaries clothing something I'd not encountered before. This was 1977. Also friend at that time was Yan an old school friend who was living in Bristol at the time. So we would go out to clubs, discos and gigs when they were on. One place we used to go was the Dug Out in Park row Bristol. It was underground and was a Warren of small rooms. Mainly playing reggae they would occasionally put on live punk bands like the Android Pups.We got interviewed there once for a film on the local punk scene. This was before it was fashionable for the hip hop scene in the 80s. We would often get mugged as we roamed around Bristol in the middle of the night in rough areas (Yan lived in Easton) but it didn't phase us as we had little money on us anyway. The Granary was another place we would go and it was at a gig at the Granary where I met Susan when she came to Bristol with some people I knew. I remember our drummer Puddle thinking Bristol was scary but we never were scared. Living in Frome was much more scary!

BBC article on the Dug Out