The Sound System has become part of todays musical/cultural heritage,playing the peoples favourite hits or just as importantly, breaking some new tunes. But perhaps less known are the roots of the Sound System, which began Wey Back When...in Kingston, Jamaica. Around the late 1940’s The Sound System began to overtake the Big Bands that usually played at the dances, in Kingston. The American Rhythm & Blues records that were so popular at the time would find there way to Jamaica via the merchant sailors and migrant workers returning from stints working in America. For economical reasons alone it would pay to have a DJ on hand to play these hits rather than a full sometimes up to 10 piece band that could easily eat and drink the promoter out of house and curried goat!!!. The early Sound Systems were basic affairs built around a single record deck, a valve amp and a speaker. But by the 1950's they had grown to purpose built speakers the size of wardrobes that could be heard many blocks awa