Digging for Records Part 35 When you are in Vinyl Heaven looking through and buying rare records 

Reggae collector and reggae/dub DJ here sir. I was excited for you. I've had similar amazing finds, especially with the Blue Beat label, but not for quite a few years.

Wow, you hit the jackpot again there, very collectable, well done, cheers, Dave 😊

Right place at the right time, that's a descent selection of 7" vinyl you found. Over the yrs those are the type of vinyl records I have cleared out my collection, so I'm not surprised they ended up at a car boot... If I'm correct Jamaica's vinyl output per capita production wise was second only to the U.S. globally, making Jamaica a musical super power...Great video...

I wish that had of been me. What a lifetime find!!! My words! This is exactly why we look for records in the first place. I've had one or two holy grail moments but what you have found here is golden treasure. Well done, great find !

What you have there is a 'Treasure Isle' of tunes haha they are the soundtrack of my youth and a few of those are in my late Mother's collection. The crazy colours on the labels take me back! BLUE BEAT Records was Chris Blackwell's first label before setting up Island, featuring mostly imported Ska tunes for the West Indian market that was building here. At the time his operation was run from a small office in Kilburn, NW London with the address showing on the label. In 1962 he set up ISLAND Records which gave him greater control over the music being released. The label grew exponentially thanks to Reggae as it became more popular in the UK, by the mid 60s he was signing groups like Traffic etc. and moved most of his reggae catalogue to its new subsidiary TROJAN Records, though by the early-mid 70s Bob Marley, Third World and other major Reggae acts were signed to Island directly. By this time he came across rivalry in the shape of the Palmer brothers, who in the late 60s set up PAMA Records in Harlesden, NW London and got similar chart success with their productions. Special mention to Duke Reid's TREASURE ISLE Records, any disc with the '33 Bond St., Kingston JA' address on it belonged to Reid, and probably a subsidiary to Treasure Isle. Some great records in there, treat them well they deserve it!

I’m a reggae collector in Canada and that is the draft a lifetime! Some of those are worth five quid and some are worth fifty, especially those Fab singles Take it easy is most likely a Prince Buster rocksteady track

Mega! Youve done it again, very sought after. Most reggae is battered, so the condition is standard.

Love amazing finds like this!

Blue Beat tend to be very early releases of early ska. These days Rock Steady is generally more valuable but at that price these were a steal. Blue Beat, Dice, duke and FAB are subsidiaries of the British melodisc records. Trojan and island were both Chris Blackwell imprints.

Whoa Martin!! Killer reggae hall.

Another mad find there mate - that Tony & Dennis one is worth a few hundred on its own.

An enviable find. I got a load of reggae singles from a local charity shop about five years ago for very little. You had me reaching for the 'Record Collector Price Guide'. It seems the Roscoe Brown single is rare. The eternal question of course is if you actually like the music.

I would have had a heart attack finging all those rare ska records in one box😊

The Bobby Atkin, Buster's Group is a good one. It doesn't say on the record but it's produced by Prince Buster. Prince Buster had a hit-song called "Madness". The band Madness named their band after the Prince Buster song "Madness", and also covered the song with some success. Madness also had a lot of success with another Prince Buster song called " One step beyond". By the way Prince Busters real name was awesome dude, Cecil Eustace Bustamante Campbell. You do get a lot of these types of reggae/ska/easy-beat in England because the mods and skinheads were into it so they actually had UK releases but they played them to death normally. I'd say out of the hundred or so blue beat singles I have only around 20 of them are mint, 40 are playable with no skips but some crackles and pops and 40 (which are the really rare valuable ones lol) are pretty trashed. I've been grabbing them when sensibly priced for 30 years so even though more common than many other genres of reggae in England they aren't exactly everywhere. When you see them in those kind of boxes at boot-sales you know they need rescuing anyway dude lol. I'll give you a tip, check out the FAB 110 you have on Discogs website. Type in the following The Max Group - Abraham Vision / My Heart Was Breaking Down. That has a low price of £32, a median of £75 and a high sold price of £93.26. There are also zero for sale on Discogs website anywhere in the world so....

Some common and not so common bits there. Would have grabbed the majority myself. Youll be pleasantly suprised by the value of the Treasure Isle 7"

Orange Street, Is In London, Israelites was a number one, so was Double Barrel. Djago - Rebel Train on Duke DU 134. The Island one Is Owen Gray - Patrica the originals were not dated 1962 like the one You have there. And It Is number two as Lord Creator - Independant Jamaica Calypso Is WI 001. Yvette - Hear Oh Lord Is the only one on "H" label. They are mostly Pop Reggae, but still nice find.

Collecter of ska and reggae.great find.pity about condition.

What an amazing score

WOWZER , Beautiful haul !! Has anyone found a way to remove nasty stickers off Beautiful sleeves please.!!

Bloody hell... how I miss car boots... expat in Spain now

Hey VV. what do you do with all these records you find? Do you have a store? Keep up the great work!

Those Tommy McCook 7s are likely to be your most valuable. Particularly the Tony and Dennis one - what's the condition of that one like?

Aaaah, a box of unorganized 7" records. It's either terrible or great!

They are to early for Reggae. More likely Rocksteady.

Another fine day in Gotham City 👍