- 01“Blood Shot Eyes”Louis Jordan was a perennial favourite, and prolific enough to meet demand; the big blues shouter Wynonie Harris always went down well – his US hit ‘Blood Shot Eyes’ was virtually stuck to Jamaican sound men's turntables between 1951 and 1953.from the chapter
- 02“Baby What You Want Me to Do”Jimmy Reed had a number of sound-system hits, the biggest being ‘Baby What You Want Me to Do’.from the chapter
- 03“Now or Never”In what proved to be a split between the establishment radio stations and the preferences of the people that lasted for twenty years, the sound systems opted to, as they saw it, stay black and keep the tempo hot – although, curiously, Elvis's ‘Now or Never’ was a huge hit in the dancehalls.from the chapter