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estimate the number of released JA lp-s between early ska era and 1985
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 8:27 am
by Jah Rock
Hello there,
I collect all kind of JA music based on different sources(web pages, record shops, books etc.) Could you estimate how many album was released between the early ska era and 1985 in Jamaica?
Bless
Jah Rock
Re: estimate the number of released JA lp-s between early ska era and 1985
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 2:11 pm
by jordandance
No.
Re: estimate the number of released JA lp-s between early ska era and 1985
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 6:02 pm
by Meshach
27,549
Re: estimate the number of released JA lp-s between early ska era and 1985
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 7:02 pm
by Bellyman
The album format never was (and still not is) the original format for records coming from Jamaica. It always was the 7" single (from mid 1970s to mid 1980s also the 12").
If I narrow your question down to albums originally released in Jamaica in that time period then it will be a number totalling around 1.800 albums.
Re: estimate the number of released JA lp-s between early ska era and 1985
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 7:49 pm
by han
18000 would be a better number I guess... 1965 - 1985 (= 20 years..) 1800/20 = 90 a year....
Re: estimate the number of released JA lp-s between early ska era and 1985
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 8:23 am
by flashman
Yeah, hard to say. If you throw in 7" and 12" along with lps, I'd have to guess it's infinite.
Re: estimate the number of released JA lp-s between early ska era and 1985
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 6:47 pm
by Bellyman
@han
Only originals released in JA. The vast majority of reggae albums from early 1960s until 1985 came from England.
If I had to estimate on all albums coming from all over the world I would not go for more than 5.000 during that period.
Re: estimate the number of released JA lp-s between early ska era and 1985
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 8:10 pm
by ras_gaks
Record census?
Re: estimate the number of released JA lp-s between early ska era and 1985
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 8:58 pm
by Jah Rock
Just about 5.000?
And what we gonna collect if all we have
Will we looking for another small island which has also such a wonderful music?
Bless
Re: estimate the number of released JA lp-s between early ska era and 1985
Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 5:06 pm
by ReggaeFire
18,000 seems quite high, starting the ska era at 1960 (giving a 25 year time frame) that would translate into two new albums a day, every day, for 25 years.
JA just doesn't seem to me to have ever been that album oriented.
A similar discussion is happening on Chatty Mouth right now, and someone mentions that Studio One released just over 300 albums, even counting for unknown albums galore, if Studio One of all labels only had, say, 500 LPs I can't see how many labels could have many more than that.