He died suddenly of a heart attack four days later while working at Studio One. The Marley-penned song Simmer Down, a Dodd production, went to number one in Jamaica in February 1964. He gave the group a five-year exclusive contract, paying them £20 for each song they recorded. He held regular Sunday evening auditions in search of new talent, and it was here that Dodd auditioned Bob Marley, singing as a part of The Wailing Wailers.
Initially these recordings were exclusively for a particular sound system but the records quickly developed into an industry in their own right. He continued to be active in the music industry into his seventies, and on Kingston’s Brentford Road was renamed Studio One.īoulevard in a ceremony which paid tribute to his accomplishments as a producer. During the late 1960s and 1970s, the ‘Studio One sound’ was synonymous with the sound of ska, rocksteady and reggae, and Dodd attracted some of the best of Jamaican talent to his stable during this time, including Burning Spear, Ras Michael, Delroy Wilson, Horace Andy and Sugar Minott. Published by Soul Jazz, The Cover Art Of Studio One celebrates the design of the legendary Jamaican recording studio Justin Quirk Fri 19.08 EDT First published on Fri 19. It was the first black-owned recording studio in Jamaica (see 1963 in music). In 1963 he opened Studio One on Brentford Road, Kingston. When the R&B craze ended in the United States, Dodd and his rivals were forced to begin recording their own Jamaican music in order to meet the local demand for new music. The label was founded by Clement 'Coxsone' Dodd in 1954. And so by the time the new Studio One studio/record company/pressing plant complex at 13 Brentford Road opened its doors in 1963, with The Skatalites in place as the in-house band, the foundations of Jamaicas. Studio One is one of Jamaica's most renowned record labels and recording studios, having been described as 'the Motown of Jamaica.' Studio One was involved with most of the major music movements in Jamaica during the 1960s and 1970s, including ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub and dancehall. Clement Seymour “Sir Coxsone” Dodd, CD (Kingston, Jamaica, Janu– May 5, 2004) was a Jamaican record producer who was influential in the development of Ska and Reggae in the 1950s, 1960s and beyond. Studio One Rocksteady 2: The Soul Of Young Jamaica - Rocksteady, Soul And Early Reggae At Studio One.