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Success Club

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Dance venue at 63 Wildman Street, downtown Kingston, central to the 1950s sound-system circuit; Duke Reid was crowned King of Sounds and Blues there for 1956, 1957 and 1958.

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Jamaica Gleaner Duke Reid retrospectives; Lloyd Bradley, Bass Culture. Also: Steve Barrow and Peter Dalton, The Rough Guide to Reggae, which independently confirms Success Club, Wildman Street, for "the years 1956-58."

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How fenced yards, imported 78s and crowned sound men turned 1950s Kingston dances into an industry.

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