Editing Studio One (record label) (section)

== History ==
Studio One was founded by [[Coxsone Dodd|Clement "Coxsone" Dodd]]<ref name=deadyard>{{cite book|author=Ian Thomson|title=The dead yard: tales of modern Jamaica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hJliXDXchE8C|access-date=31 August 2011|date=15 June 2009|publisher=Nation Books|isbn=978-0-571-22761-7}}</ref> in 1954, and the first recordings were cut in 1963 on Brentford Road in [[Kingston, Jamaica|Kingston]].<ref name=deadyard /><ref name=nytobit>{{cite news | title = Coxsone Dodd, 72, Pioneer of the Jamaican Pop Music Scene, Dies | author = Kelefah Sannah | date = 6 May 2004 | newspaper= [[The New York Times]]}} [https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/06/arts/06DODD.html (online)]</ref> Amongst its earliest records were "Easy Snappin" by [[Theophilus Beckford]], backed by [[Clue J & His Blues Blasters]], and "This Man is Back" by trombonist [[Don Drummond]]. Dodd had previously issued music on a series of other labels, including World Disc, and had run Sir Coxsone the Downbeat, one of the largest and most reputable [[Reggae sound system|sound system]]s in the Kingston [[ghetto]]s.

In the early 1960s, the house band providing backing for the vocalists were [[the Skatalites]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.skatalites.com/|title=The Skatalites|website=Skatalites.com|access-date=3 September 2019}}</ref> (1964–65), whose members (including [[Roland Alphonso]], [[Don Drummond]], [[Tommy McCook]], [[Jackie Mittoo]], Lester Sterling and [[Lloyd Brevett]]) were recruited from the Kingston jazz scene by Dodd.  The Skatalites split up in 1965 after Drummond was jailed for murder, and Dodd formed new house band the Soul Brothers (1965–66), later named the Soul Vendors (1967) and Sound Dimension (1967-). From 1965 to 1968 they played 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 5 days a week, 12 rhythms a day (about 60 rhythms a week) with [[Jackie Mittoo]] as music director, Brian Atkinson (1965–1968) on bass, [[Hux Brown]] on guitar, Harry Haughton (guitar), Joe Isaacs on drums (1966–1968), Denzel Laing on percussion, and on horns (some initially and some throughout): Roland Alphonso, Dennis 'Ska' Campbell, Bobby Ellis, Lester Sterling, among others on horns during the era of Rock Steady. Headley Bennett, [[Ernest Ranglin]], [[Vin Gordon]] and [[Leroy Sibbles]] were included among a fluid line-up, to record tracks directed by Jackie Mittoo at Studio One from 1966-1968.

During the night hours at Studio One from 1965-1968, singers like [[Bob Marley]], Burning Spear, The Heptones, [[The Ethiopians]], [[Ken Boothe]], Rita Marley, Marcia Griffiths, Judy Mowatt, Alton Ellis, Delroy Wilson, Bunny Wailer<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/bunny-wailer-mn0000636474/biography|title=Bunny Wailer : Biography|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=3 September 2019}}</ref> and Johnny Nash, among others, would put on headphones to sing lyrics to original tracks recorded by the Soul Brothers earlier each day. These seminal recordings included "[[Real Rock]]" (by [[Sound Dimension]]), "Heavy Rock", "Jamaica Underground", "Wakie Wakie", "Lemon Tree", "Hot Shot", "I'm Still In Love With You", "Dancing Mood", and "Creation Rebel".

Jackie Mittoo, Joe Isaacs, and Brian Atkinson left Studio One in 1968 and moved to Canada. The Soul Brothers (a.k.a. [[Sound Dimension]]) formed the basis of reggae music in the late 1960s, being versioned and re-versioned time after time over decades by musicians like Shaggy, Sean Paul, Snoop Lion, The Clash, String Cheese Incident, UB40, Sublime, and countless other Billboard originals and remakes trying to emulate their original Rock Steady sound at Coxsone's Studio One.

The studio was closed when Dodd relocated to [[New York City]] in the mid-1980s;<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|title=[[The Guinness Who's Who Of Reggae]]|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=Guinness Publishing (UK)|date=1994|isbn=0-85112-734-7|page=75}}</ref> he continued to run the label from his new base.