Dice The Boss - Tea House From Emperor Roscoe / Brixton Cat - HRSSS-0026

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First reissue of two super rare Boss Reggae Anthemss!

“TEA HOUSE FROM EMPEROR ROSCOE” /

“BRIXTON CAT”

By DICE THE BOSS

7" VINYL 45 RPM - LIMITED EDITION

OFFICIAL RELEASE: March 22, 2024

ABOUT THIS RELEASE:

“Tea House From Emperor Roscoe” by Dice The boss was first released as a B side of the early Reggae classic “She Caught The Train” by Ray Martell released in 1970 on the Trojan sublabel Joe whilst “Brixton Cat” was released in 1969 on the Duke Label under a Joe logo. 

Both titles are skinhead reggae classics, have never been reissued and are very much demand.

About Joe Mansano:

“Tea House From Emperor Roscoe”” was credited to Joe Mansano, real name Joel Mansano who also produced the song. Joel was a Trinidadian who moved to London in 1963. He was a record shop seller, song writer and producer and became heavily involved in the early reggae era producing and writing tracks for several Jamaican artists, enough for Trojan to dedicate a label to him: the “Joe” label aimed at the emerging Skinheads market. He also owned a shop the Joe's Record Centre in Brixton and recorded two handfuls of singles under the name Joe The boss…

About Dice The Boss/ Pama Dice:

Not much is known about Dice The Boss. It seems that his real name was Hopeton Reid and he was alternatively known as “Pama Dice”. We know more about Pama Dice though thanks to Gaz Mayall!

"Pama Dice was one of Prince Busters ‘no-shoes’ ‘Sunday school gang in west Kingston Jamaica. According to the Prince there wasn’t a car that Pama couldn’t nick. He used to nick the cars uptown with no shoes on & take them to the ghetto to teach the youth to drive. They were called the Sunday school or no-shoes gang as they were so poor that they only had one pair of shoes each & only wore them to church on Sundays. Pama Dice rose in the ranks to become one of Prince Busters main sound system DJs before emigrating to London in the late sixties where he MC’d for Duke Vin & recorded many great records for the UK/Jamaican booming new Reggae market in its infancy on the shoulders of the Bluebeat & Ska & Rock Steady music scene."

Source Gaz Mayall 27/2/2021