Prince Buster against the rest

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=Nilo82=
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Prince Buster against the rest

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Prince Buster loved to fire muscical rockets at his opponents, everybody knows about his feuds with Derrick Morgan.
Earlier the Prince cut tunes aimed at his soundsystem rivals; King Edwars, Duke Reid the Trojan and Sir Coxsone Downbeat. There are titles like "The King, The Duke And The Sir", "They Got To Go/ They Got To Come" and "Three Against One".
Now here's the question: Did his rivals cut counteractions? I just know about the Buster tunes, but surely there are answers to those?
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kalcidis
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The earliest recording of "deejaying" that Coxsone piece I've read somewhere. Dunno if it's true. But it's early and sounds a bit awkward. :)
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there are many.. One even has coxsone dodd voice in it..

delroy wilson & c dodd - king pharoah..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt7ALt3RNtc

Junior Byles - Pharoah hiding:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD_sRcpst2Q
the Junior Byles tune refers to "Pharoah hiding from Joshua" - nothing to do at all with Buster, but about then-Prime Minister Hugh Shearer - he was the "Pharoah" to PM candidate Michael Manley's "Joshua".
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Check http://www.upsetter.net/scratch/sounds/index2.htm (Mick Sleeper's site on Lee Perry) and listen to his Neat Little Man set. Scratch did a number of these tunes and you can listen to a few of his there. Good topic. Love Prince Buster.
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Wicked tunes, DWick - Coxsone did good as well!
I kinda thought, that tunes of "the Sir" would be best known, but never heard the Perry tunes before..
What about Reid & Edwards, any knowledge?

And btw: tuff selection, Mr. Sleeper!
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There's also "Whipping the Prince" aka "Prince, Duke and Sir" - Alton Ellis and Soul Vendors on Studio 1 (on the Mojo Rocksteady lp). On the great "Arena" rhythm if memory serves.
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Thanks DWick and Nilo82. I also wrote an article about some of the "answer" tunes that Lee Perry voiced for Studio One, aimed at Prince Buster:

http://www.upsetter.net/scratch/station ... buster.htm
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