Respected LadyLand: Sonia Pottinger, Groundbreaking Jamaican Producer
3:00pm, 1-18-2025
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On this episode, we’ll listen to gorgeous records of the 1960s & 1970s from record producer and Jamaican music industry mogal Sonia Pottinger, one of the first women producers in the western hemisphere.
Founder of Gay Feet Records, High Note Records, and purchaser of Treasure Isle Records AND MORE!
Though she’s usually referred to as a reggae producer, she actually produced records in a variety of genres: ska, soul, rocksteady, mento, calypso, jazz, reggae, dub, gospel, and country.
- 3:00pm Down By The Train Line by Stranger & Patsy on 45 (Gay Feet)
- 3:03pm Pure Soul by Roland Alphonso on ABC Rocksteady (High Note)
- 3:05pm I'll Take You Where The Music's Playing by Melodians on 45 (High Note)
- 3:09pm Pata Pata Rocksteady by Patsy Millicent Todd on 45 (Gay Feet)
- 3:12pm Brown Eyes by The Saints with Baba Brooks on 45 (High Note)
- 3:15pm Cocktails for Two by Baba Brooks on 45 (Gay Feet)
- 3:17pm Dr. No Go by The Hippy Boys on 45 (High Note)
- 3:20pm A Man Is A Two Face by Patsy Millicent Todd on Singles (Gay Feet)
- 3:23pm Put Yourself In My Place by Delroy Wilson on single (High Note)
- 3:25pm Stars Above by Webber Sisters on 45 (Gay Feet)
- 3:28pm Swing And Dine by The Melodians on 45 (Gay Feet)
- 3:31pm Winchester Rocksteady by Leslie Butler on 45 (Gayfeet)
- 3:34pm Ring Ding 67 by Count Lasher on 45 (Pep)
- 3:37pm Fire in Your Wire by Patsy Millicent Todd on 45 (Gay Feet)
- 3:39pm Soul Masooka by Brent Dowe on 45 (Gay Feet)
- 3:43pm Toil (Talk) by Marcia Griffiths on 45 (High Note)
- 3:46pm Everybody's Talking by Ernest Ranglin on Boss Reggae (Steady)
- 3:48pm I Shall Sing by Judy Mowatt on 45 (Gay Feet)
- 3:52pm Move Up by Al & The Vibrators With The Fugitives on 45 (Gay Feet)
- 3:54pm Elephant Trap by Ansel Collins and Soul Syndicate on 45 (High Note)
- 3:56pm (Leaving On A) Jet Plane by Sonya Spence on Sings Love (High Note)