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v/a - the rojac story - rojac - vinyl

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Genre: Funk / Soul

1. Clarence Reid - Nobody But You Babe
2. Kim Tolliver - (You're Trying To) Cop My Stuff
3. Third Guitar - Lovin' Lies
4. Little Jewel - I Want To
5. Chico & Buddy - Can You Dig It
6. Clarence Reid - Skunks, Hogs & Dogs
7. Chuck-A-Luck & The Loverman LTD - Are You Experience
8. Damn Sam The Miracle Man & The Soul Congregation - Lucky Man
9. Jo Armstead - This and That
10. Aleke Kanonu - Nwanne, Nwanne, Nwanne (with Tolbert The Miracle Man)
11. Third Guitar - Down To The River
12. Lavell Hardy - Don't Loose Your Groove
13. Curtis Lee & The KCP's - Get In My Bag
14. Chuck-A-Luck & The Lovemen - Whip Ya
15. Damn Sam The Miracle Man & The Soul Congregation - I've Got It"
16. Damn Sam The Miracle Man & The Soul Congregation - Give Me Another Joint
17. Big Maybelle - Quittin Time
18. Damn Sam The Miracle Man & The Soul Congregation - Smash
19. Chuck-A-Luck & The Lovemen - Whip Ya
20. Damn Sam The Miracle Man & The Soul Congregation - I've Got It
21. Damn Sam The Miracle Man & The Soul Congregation - Give Me Another Joint
22. Big Maybelle - Can't Wait Any Longer
23. Clarence Reid - Somethign Special About My Baby
24. Kim Tolliver - Tuesday's Child
25. Big Maybelle - Don't Pass Me By
26. Clarence Reid - Heaven Will Welcome You
27. Chuck Flamingo & The Kansas City Playboys - What's My Chances
28. International GTOs - I Love My Baby
29. Jo Armstead - No Better For Ya
30. International GTOs - It's Been Raining In My Heart

Doublepack, compiling the best releases from the Rojac and Tay-Ster labels!

Harlem’s 116th Street was ground zero for Jack Taylor’s network of enterprises, both legitimate and otherwise. From the 1960s into the ‘80s. Fat Jack, as Taylor was widely known on those mean streets, was one of Harlem’s flashiest and toughest characters, allegedly a local drug kingpin. No matter what he may have been in the business of selling, it’s a certainty that Taylor was a shrewd businessman who understood the value of diversification. Launching a record label was one of his many ventures, and not an unsuccessful one by any means.

Around 1963, Taylor inaugurated Rojac Records, attempting to capture the musical pulse of Harlem on microgroove the way Berry Gordy was managing to perfection in the Motor City. No doubt the ultimate goal was to accrue stacks of benjamins by releasing a non-stop barrage of hits on Rojac and its sister Tay-Ster label.

Rojac and Tay-Ster issued a steady stream of product through the latter half of the ‘60s. Taylor relocated his base of operations to Detroit at the end of the decade, after that, his labels went dormant for a while, though he intermittently reactivated them.