WIRL ALBUMS
Former address West Indies Records Ltd. (WIRL):
13 Bell Road, Kingston 11, Jamaica W.I.
WIRL 1005 Various Artists - Sunny Barbados
Tracks: Tax Dogers (Sir Don) /Sweetheart Twist (Emil
Straker & Pete Jones Combo) / Lost My Heart In Barbados (Rick
Francis) / (Limbo (The Merrymen Trio)/ Judas (Sir Don) / Brother
Neddy (Emil Straker & The Merrymen Trio) / I Love Barbados (Ricky
Francis) / Twentieth Century Husbands(Sir Don) / My Little Girl (Emil
Straker & Pete Jones Combo) / Gem (Francis West)
WIRL 1013 Osbert Graham Aith The Wirl
Orchestra - This Is Ska The Big Beat Ska
Tracks: Warm Up Blues / Uncle Joe / Blue
River Blues / Happy Blues / Monkey's Blues / Norma Wright / Here
Come's The Bride / Tonight / John The Protecutor / Tell Me Pretty
Baby / Never Be Downhearted
WIRL 1015 The Merrymen Featuring Emile Straker -
Caribbean Treasure Chest
Calypso
Tracks: Big Bamboo / Island In The Sun / Take Me, Take Me / Wreck
Of John B / Calypso Medly (If You See Me Little Brown / Millie
Gone To Brazil / You Say You Young / Sly Mongoose) // Mary Ann /
Caroline / Island Woman / Legend Of Sam Lord / Cu-Cu-Ru-Cu-Cu
Paloma / King Ja-Ja
Production and Recording: George Benson
Technical Assistant: Sydney Chase
WIRL 1016 Millie Small - The Most Of Millie
Tracks: Sugar Plum (Millie & Owen Gray) / Sit And Cry (Millie & Owen Gray) / You Are The One (Millie & Roy Panton) / Cherry (Millie & Roy Panton) / This World (Millie & Roy Panton) / Starlite (Millie & Roy Panton) // Do You Know (Millie & Owen Gray) / Dearest Love (Millie & Roy Panton) / I Don't Want You (Millie & Owen Gray) / We'll Meet (Millie & Roy Panton) / They'll Come A Day (Millie & Owen Gray)
1963
WIRL 1020 Emile Straker & His Merrymen - The More
The Merrier
Calypso
Tracks: Diddley Bops / Rosita / Merry Medley: Nobody's Business/Brown
Skin Girl/Matilda/My Bucket's Got A Hole / FreightTrain / Scarlet
Ribbons / Yellow Bird / Never On A Sunday / Corina / Just Walk On
By / Folk Medley: My Lord/What A Morning/When The Saints Go
Marching In/Gotta Travel On/Lonesome Me
1964
WIRL 1021 Saxful Of Harry With 560 Jazz Quartet
WIRL 1023 Tropical Isle At The Hotel Royal On-Sea Featuring The Tropical Islanders
Tracks: Yellow Bird / Beautiful Barbados / Dominique / All My Loving / Rico Vacilon / Nondo Cane / Copa Cabana // Poinciana / Limbo / From Me To You / Exodus / Till / The Click Song
Pproduction and recording: George Benson
Technical assistant B. Elcock
WIRL 1024 The BWIA Sunjets (aka The West Side Symphony)
- Sunjet Serade
Steel drums
Tracks: Limbo Rock / I'm Helplessly In Love With You / Don't
Mention My Name / Speak Easy / Whistling Boy / I Will Follow Him
// Big Bamboo / Georgia On My Mind / Tonight / Dream / Ko-Kia-Kio
/ Stella
WIRL 1025 Various Artists - Eat She Row (Carnival Jump Up)
WIRL 1027 The Hiltonaires - Ska-Motion Ska-Lip-So
Tracks: Ska-Motion / Bollo-Man / Chiney
Baby / Ska And Fall Back / Jack-Ass / Jamaica / Shame And Scandal
/ The Dove / Seven Bells / Ethiopia / Tom Dooley / Parson And All
1964
WIRL 1028 Jackie Opel - Cry Me A River
Tracks: Cry Me A River / Try Me / Wipe
These Tears / Till The End Of Time / I Am Free / Don't Let Me Die
/ Shelter The Storm / My Prayer / Forever, Forever / Eternal Love
/ My Sweet Lover / One More Chance
Produced by C.S. Dodd
1964
WIRL 1030 The Mighty Vikings- The MightyVikings
Tracks: Cyrus / Wishing & Hoping / La
Mojer Puerto Requena / The Night / Isle Of Capri / Soul / Island
King / Angelito / Catalania / And I Love Her / Mix Up / Get On
The Right Side
1965
WIRL 1031 Keith Stewart - Yellow Bird
Tracks: Yellow Bird / Angelina / Soldier
Man / Save Me The Trouble / Melodie D'Amour / Evening Time /
Linstead Market / Calypso Island / Uncle Joe / Wings Of A Dove /
Island Girl / I Will Never Marry
1965
WIRL 1034 Various Artists - I'll Remember Jamaica
Tracks: Yellow Bird / John Tom / Land Of
Sea And Sun / Hard Times / River Ben Come Down // Island In The
Sun / Elephant Walk / Solas Market / Yellow Duck / Limbo
1965
WIRL 1037 Various Artists - This Is Carnival
Tracks: Obeah Man (Bertram Innis And His Band) / Lonely Woman (Lord Black Hat) / Woman Is A Woman (The Mighty Canary) / Nobody Ain't Better Than Nobody (The Mighty Robin) / The Dead Wouldn't Raise (The Mighty Zebra) // Rhodesian Crisis (Lord Cypher) / Clipper's Autograph (The Mighty Clipper) / Noisy Love (The Mighty Duke) / Unusual Scenes (The Mighty Beaver) / I Wish The World Was Mine (Lord Caruso) / Mr Kitchener (Lord Blakie)
1965
WIRL 1038 Billy Vernon - Yellow Bird
Tracks: Yellow Bird / Ska Suzanna /
Juarez / Sad Sad Girl / A Taste Of Honey / My Pussin / Wings Of A
Dove / Maria Elena / If I Didn't Love You / Mexico / Midnight
Hour / On The Rebound
1965
WIRL 1039 Hazel & Her Carib Quintet - Folk Songs
Of The Caribbean
Tracks: One Ting A Ling Ling / Buddy Lindo / Ibo Bo Le Le / Jumbie Oh / Chi Chi Bud / All The Way From Africaland // Si Si Moriah / Essi Fung / Amber Marget / Call Me Rosebud / Ah Juliana / Alley Moi Voisin
Music arranged by Lynn Taitt
1965
WIRL 1040 Lord Jellicoe & His Calypso Monarchs -
Live At The Sheraton
Calypso
Tracks: Big Bamboo / Brown Skin Gal / Jamaica Farewell / Hold On
To Your Man / Island Woman / Mary Ann / Shame And Scandal / Wings
Of A Dove / Island In The Sun / Yellow Bird / Matilda / My Pussin
1965
WIRL 1041 The Hiltonaires - Big Bamboo
Tracks: Yellow Bird / My Pussin / Island
In The Sun / Mary Ann / Island Woman / Jamaica Farewell / Big
Bamboo / Chinese Baby / Matilda / Shame And Scandal / Wings Of A
Dove / Going Back To See Her
1965
WIRL 1042 Don Drummond & Skatalites - Ska-Boo-Da-Ba
- Top Sounds From Top Deck
Tracks: Ska-Boo-Da-Ba / Confucious / China Town /
The Reburial / Smiling / Skaravan / Shame And Scandal / Ringo /
Surftide Seven / Lawless Street / China Clipper / Wings Of A Dove
Ska
1965
WIRL 1042 10.30 With Tony Verity
Tracks: Introduction (Tony Verity) / What Now My Love (Byron Lee & The Dragonaires) / Yesterday (Jackie Edwards) / Chipmunk Ska (The Gaylads) / Bam Bam (The Maytals) / Papa Jack (Byron Lee & The Dragonaires) / Wives And Lovers (The Soul Brothers) // Carry Go Bring Come (Justin Hinds & The Dominoes) / I Can't Love Another (The Techniques) / My Boy Lollipop (Millie Small) / Put In On (The Wailers) / How Sweet It Is (The Blues Busters) / Port O Jam (Roy Richards)
WIRL 1043 Wirl Steel Band - The Music Of The Caribbean
Tracks: Archie / Bam Bam / What Now My
Love / Mary Ann / Big Bamboo / Hold On To Your Man / Yellow Bird
/ Island Woman / Island In The Sun / Wings Of A Dove / Jamaica
Farewell / Shame And Scandal
Produced by Garnet Hargreaves
1966
WIRL 1045 Archie Lewis - The Voice Of Love
Calypso
Tracks: Yellow Bird / Land Of Sea And Sun / Jamaica Farewell /
Island In The Sun / Hawaiian Wedding Song // Spanish Eyes /
Edelweiss / Strangers In The Night / Eine Reise Ins Gluck / What
Now My Love
Producer: Clifford Rae
Recording Engineer: Carlton Lee
WIRL 1046 Various Artists - Rock Steady Beat
Tracks: Girl I've Got A Date / Sounds And
Pressure / Keep On Pushing / The Train Is Coming / A Thing Called
Soul / Bend Down Low // 007 / Take It Easy / Temptation / Hound
Dog / Obeah Wedding / Sweets For My Sweet
Produced by Garnet Hargreaves
Recording Engineer: Carlton Lee
Orchestra: Wirl Recording Orchestra
1966
WIRL 1049 Calypso Joe ....- At The Courtleigh Manor
Calypso
Tracks: Obeah Wedding / Island In The Sun / Zombie Jamboree / Bloodshot Eyes / Love In The Cemetary / Shame And Scandal // My Sister / Yellow Bird / Jamaica Farewell / Rock Steady Calypso / No Money - No Love / Sukie
1967
WIRL 1050 Keith Stewart - Jamaica Farewell And Other
Caribbean Folk Songs
Tracks: Jamaica Farewell / Johnnie /
Listen To The Ocean / You Sweeten Me / Land Of Sea And Sun / Come
Along With Me / Bahamian Gal / Banana Man / MangoTree / Sometimes
/ Balimana / Single-Man
1967
WIRL 1051 Roy Fuller - Island In The Sun
Tracks: Yellow Bird / Man Smart,Woman
Smarter / Island Woman / Day-O / Manuel Road / Love In The
Cemetary / Land Of The Sea And Sun / Haiti Cherie / Shame And
Scandal / IslandIn TheSun
1967
WIRL 1052 The Hiltonaires - Hold Him Joe
Tracks: Hold Him Joe / Lemon Tree /
Nobody's Business / Where Are All The Flowers Gone / Jumbie
Jamboree / Watermelon Man / Stone Cold Dead / Daphne Walking /
Adam And Eve / Iron Bar
1967
WIRL 1053 Ethiopians - Engine 54
Tracks: Engine 54 / My Love / You Got The
Dough / Train To Skaville / Give Me Your Love / Train To Glory /
Long Time Now / Woman's World / Unchanged Love / Come On Now
1967
WIRL 1054 Lord Brynner - Calypsorama
Calypso
Tracks: Calypsorama / Canadian Redhead / I Am Sorry Honey /
Mussinger Affair / Queens Calypso / Uncle Crazy ,Uncle Mad / Back
To My Island / West Indian Culture / Dorothy / My Teacher
WIRL 1055 Lord Brynner - Calypso Carnival
Tracks: Queen Sings Calypso / Mr Walker /
Soul In The Soul / The Viking / Big Big Bamboo Bamboo / Beulah /
Miss Tourist / Rich Man Poor Man / Bajan Batchelors / Fire Fire
WIRL 1057 Kiemanaires - Calypso Cayman
Tracks: Cuando Cuando / Kiermanaries Jerk
/ El Bossa Nova De Las Bahamas / Never On Sunday / Somewhere My
Love / Julie On My Mind / Whiter Shade Of Pale / Knock On Wood /
Cayman Isle Calypso / Ring Ting Ting / Georgetown Rock Steady /
Old Lady Oh
1968
WIRL 1058 Count Franks - Sings Calypso
Tracks: Calypso Island / Adam & Eve / Yellow
Bird / Whistler / Island Woman / Going Back To See Her / Island
In The Sun / Shame And Scandal / Island Girl / Banana Boat / Back
To Back / Jamaica Farewell
1967
WIRL 1060 Various Artists - Rock Steady Intensified -
Jamaica's New Dance Craze
Tracks: Ride Yu Donkey (Tennors) / Chain Gang (Winston
Francis) / Say What You're Saying (Monty Morris) / Massi Massa (Tennors)
/ Place In The Sun (David Isaacs) / Gleeful (Visions) / People
Funny Bwoy (Lee 'King' Perry) / She Want It (Gaylads) / The Screw
(Falcon Price) / Feel The Rhythm (Clancy Eccles) / Rub Me Khaki (Tennors)
/ Joy In The Morning (Gaylads)
Rock Steady
1968
WIRL 1068 This is .... Lloyd Simmons
WIRL 1079 La Motta Brothers & The Virgin Islanders With Bill Fleming - Modern Calypso
Calypso
WIRL LP 1906 Mapletoft Poulle - Jamaica
Mento
Tracks: Nobody's Business / Iron
Bar / Fan Mi Soja Man / Rocky Road / Dip And Fall Back / Linstead
Market / Evening Time / Hole Im Joe / Farm Worker Man /
Outlandish Clothes / SolasMarket / Jackass Corn
1962
WIRL LP 1907 Sparrow - At The Sheraton-Kingston
Tracks: English Society / Elaine And
Harry And Mama / Dan Is The Man / Kennedy Can Handle Them / Take
You Buddle And Go / Ten To One It's Murder / Federation /
Extemporaneous
1962
WIRL LP 1910 Lord Jellicoe & His Calypso Monarchs
Featuring Pee Wee Bailey - Sunny Jamaica
Tracks: Take Her To Jamaica (Where The
Rum Comes From...) / Remember Ma And Pa / Fly Me To The Moon /
Boy Days (Ugly Animal) / Moon River / Island In The Sun / Zombie
Jamboree (Back To Back) / Road March (It's A Long Funeral) / Our
Love Affair (Affair To Remember) / Linstead Market / Angelico /
Jamaica Farewell (Kingston Town)
1962
WIRL DBL 1003 Maytals - The Sensational Maytals
Tracks: It's You / Daddy / Never You
Change / If You Act This Way / It's No Use / You Make Me Feel The
Way I Do / What's On Your Mind / My New Name / Fever / She Will
Never Let Me Down / I Know / Tell Me The Reason
Produced by Ronnie Nasralla
1965
WIRL LP 906 Jackie Edwards - The Most Of Wilfred
"Jackie" Edwards
Tracks: A Little Smile / Hear My Cry /
Heaven Just Knows / One More Week / Your Eyes Are Dreaming /
Whenever There's Moonlight / Tell Me Darling / Tears Like Rain /
I Love You No More / All My Days / We're Gonna Love / I Know
1963
WIRL ILP 931 Jackie Edwards - Come On Home
Tracks: Come On Home / He Will Break Your Heart /
The Same One / Keep On Running / Yesterday / Never Again (Will I
Fall In Love) / Blue Moon / If I Didn't Have A Dime / Ain't Got
No Home / I Don't Know / Sometimes / Looking Back
1966
WIRL196011 Lord Brynner - Rich Man Poor
Man
Calypso
Tracks: The World Won't Stop For You / I Love My Home Town /
Mount Zion / Come What May / Philadelphia, Here We Come / Rich
Man Poor Man / Maliaka / Martin Luther King Message / Kumina Rise
Tonight / Paloma Blanca / Abortion Is Not The Solution / Games
People Play
1976
Various Artists - Club Ska '67
WIRL label, but Island cat. no. LP 948
Various Artists - Jamaica's Ambassadors Of Song Vol. 1
Tracks: Killer Joe (Millie Small) / L.O.V.E.
(Jackie Edwards) / You Don't Know Like I Know (Owen Gray) / Let's
Dance (Jimmy Cliff) / My Boy Lollipop (Millie Small) / Somebody
Help Me (Jackie Edwards) // Think Twice (Jackie Edwards) / What A
Price (Millie Small) / Shook, Shimmy & Shake (Owen Gray) /
This Is My Story (Jackie & Millie) / Pride & Passion (Jimmy
Cliff) / Gonna Work Out Fine (Owen Gray)
Produced by Chris Blackwell
1966
Luther In Tropical Orbit - Into Space
With Latin Rhythms
Tracks: Desiree (Bolero) /
Orbitito ( Mambo) / The Womans Figure (Calypso) / Never On Sunday
(Cha Cha) / Marcus (Jump Up) / Merengue Vicente (Merengue) / Bosa
Nova Gloria / Ain't She Sweet (Cha Cha) / My Brothers Calamity (Calypso)
/ La Palamino (Merengue) / Miserlou (Bolero) / Jump Up And Go
British Guyana Police - Folk Music Of Guyana
Last update on 31 March, 2013