Tell It To Me Riddim – Studio One

Tell It To Me Riddim – Studio One dates to 1968 and comes from Coxsone Dodd’s Studio One camp, with just two cuts carrying the rhythm: The Freedom Singers’ Tell It To Me and The Soul Vendors’ Get With It. That lean tracklist gives it a tight, early Studio One feel, with a vocal side anchored by The Freedom Singers and a strong instrumental answer from the Soul Vendors, one of the label’s key house outfits. It sits right in the late-’60s Studio One run that helped define the transition from rocksteady into reggae, and the pairing here is a neat snapshot of how Dodd kept both singers and band-led sides moving through the same rhythm.