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JUMP JAMAICA WAY
Various Artists (1963)

R&B / Ska Beat JBL 1111
matrix: R&B / EJL - 1111 A // R&B / EJL - 1111 B

Four Seasons (Maytals); Green Island (Don Drummond); 6th And 7th Books (Maytals); Looking Through The Window (Don Drummond); Tell Me (Harris Seaton); It's Raining Outside (Charmers) // Out Of Nowhere (Lester Sterling Group); Long Walk Home (Charmers); Yours (Alton & Eddy); I Don't Know (Winston Stewart); Down Beat Special (Roland Alphonso & Group); Patricia (Tommy McCook)

Issued in the UK in 1963 on the R&B label and subsequently repressed on Ska Beat. Both came in the same laminated flip-back sleeve printed by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd. ((Click sleeve to enlarge.))

An interesting collection of tracks licensed to R&B Discs Ltd. for UK distribution. Most of the titles were also issued as singles in Jamaica, before or after the release of the LP, but several titles only seem to appear here, including It's Raining Outside, Yours, Out Of Nowhere and Patricia.

JUMP JAMAICA WAY
Various Artists (1963 or1964)

Blank label
matrix: FCLP 2483 // FCLP 2484

JUMP JAMAICA WAY
Various Artists (1964 or earlier)

ND Records JBL 1111
matrix: WIRL-LP-5 // FCLP 2484

JUMP JAMAICA WAY
Various Artists (c.1969)

Coxsone JBL 1111
matrix: R&B / EJL - 1111 A // R&B / EJL - 1111 B

JUMP JAMAICA WAY
Various Artists (c.1969)

Coxsone JBL 1111
matrix: R&B / EJL - 1111 A // R&B / EJL - 1111 B

JUMP JAMAICA WAY
Various Artists

Coxsone JBL 1111
matrix: R&B / EJL - 1111 A // R&B / EJL - 1111 B

JUMP JAMAICA WAY
Various Artists (mid 1980s)

ND Records JBL 1111
matrix: C.S. DODD - 8011-A K.K.mastering
matrix: C.S. DODD - 8011-B K.K.mastering

Four Seasons (Maytals); Green Island (Don Drummond); 6th And 7th Books (Maytals); Looking Through The Window (Don Drummond); Tell Me (Harris Seaton); It's Raining Outside (Charmers) // Out Of Nowhere (Lester Sterling Group); Long Walk Home (Charmers); Yours (Alton & Eddy); I Don't Know (Winston Stewart); Down Beat Special (Roland Alphonso & Group); Patricia (Tommy McCook)

Mid 1980s Jamaican issue, also in the reproduction sleeve, on ND Records and Coxsone labels.
((Click sleeve to enlarge.))

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Four Seasons (Maytals); Green Island (Don Drummond); 6th And 7th Books (Maytals); Looking Through The Window (Don Drummond); Tell Me (Harris Seaton); It's Raining Outside (Charmers) // Out Of Nowhere (Lester Sterling Group); Long Walk Home (Charmers); Yours (Alton & Eddy); I Don't Know (Winston Stewart); Down Beat Special (Roland Alphonso & Group); Patricia (Tommy McCook)

Jamaican repress using the UK stampers on a Coxsone label. ((Click sleeve to enlarge.))

The reproduction sleeve, printed by Glade Printing Service Ltd. 30 Hagley Park Road, Kingston 10 (complete with printed ringwear and blemishes), carries the ND Records logo on the front.

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Four Seasons (Maytals); Green Island (Don Drummond); 6th And 7th Books (Maytals); Looking Through The Window (Don Drummond); Tell Me (Harris Seaton); It's Raining Outside (Charmers) // Out Of Nowhere (Lester Sterling Group); Long Walk Home (Charmers); Yours (Alton & Eddy); I Don't Know (Winston Stewart); Down Beat Special (Roland Alphonso & Group); Patricia (Tommy McCook)

Early Jamaican issue with matrix numbers FCLP 2483 and FCLP 2484. Only recently discovered on a copy with blank labels in a plain sleeve (although it might also have been issued on a printed label in a picture sleeve).
(Thanks to Jeremy Collingwood for the information and illustrations.)

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Four Seasons (Maytals); Green Island (Don Drummond); 6th And 7th Books (Maytals); Looking Through The Window (Don Drummond); Tell Me (Harris Seaton); It's Raining Outside (Charmers) // Out Of Nowhere (Lester Sterling Group); Long Walk Home (Charmers); Yours (Alton & Eddy); I Don't Know (Winston Stewart); Down Beat Special (Roland Alphonso & Group); Patricia (Tommy McCook)

Jamaican reissue pressed at WIRL (West Indies Records Limited) before the fire in 1964 that destroyed the pressing plant. ((Click sleeve to enlarge.))

The laminated flip-back sleeve, printed by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd., now carries the ND Records logo on the front. These issues come on red, yellow, green, blue or turquoise vinyl, as well as regular black.

Four Seasons (Maytals); Green Island (Don Drummond); 6th And 7th Books (Maytals); Looking Through The Window (Don Drummond); Tell Me (Harris Seaton); It's Raining Outside (Charmers) // Out Of Nowhere (Lester Sterling Group); Long Walk Home (Charmers); Yours (Alton & Eddy); I Don't Know (Winston Stewart); Down Beat Special (Roland Alphonso & Group); Patricia (Tommy McCook)

Jamaican repress using the UK stampers in the laminated flip-back sleeve on the ND Records label. This issue was also released on turquoise coloured vinyl. ((Click sleeve to enlarge.))

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Four Seasons (Maytals); Green Island (Don Drummond); 6th And 7th Books (Maytals); Looking Through The Window (Don Drummond); Tell Me (Harris Seaton); It's Raining Outside (Charmers) // Out Of Nowhere (Lester Sterling Group); Long Walk Home (Charmers); Yours (Alton & Eddy); I Don't Know (Winston Stewart); Down Beat Special (Roland Alphonso & Group); Patricia (Tommy McCook)

Jamaican repress using the UK stampers in the laminated flip-backsleeve on a yellow ND Records label.
((Click sleeve to enlarge.))