Gussie Clarke
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Augustus "Gussie" Clarke (born 1953, Kingston, Jamaica
), is a reggae
producer
who worked with some of the top Jamaican reggae artists in the 1970s and later set up his own Music Works studio.
's "The Higher The Mountain". He established himself as the top producer of deejay
s in the early 1970s with albums such as Big Youth
's Screaming Target, and I-Roy
's Presenting I Roy, both regarded as among the best deejay albums ever produced. Through the 1970s and early 1980s he worked with artists such as Dennis Brown
, Gregory Isaacs
, Augustus Pablo
, Leroy Smart
, and The Mighty Diamonds
, including the latter's influential "Pass the Kouchie" in 1981. Much of his output was released on his own Gussy and Puppy labels.
In the late 1980s, Clarke adapted to the new dancehall
style of reggae, but stood out from other producers by attempting to produce glossier recordings with greater potential to cross over internationally.
In 1987 while still recording at Music Mountain and Dynamic Sounds studio, the first record to bare hints of this newly embraced digital sound came from the release of The Mighty Diamonds
"The Real Enemy". "Gang War", the first single off the album released on his Music Works label showcased this new digi-roots style, incorporating keyboard and computer programming driven riddims, compared to the known traditional roots reggae sound with players of live instruments recording in the studio. This release stood out as the first transitional record for Gussie and his production blending old school roots reggae to the newly embarked digital dancehall riddims to take shape for the coming years.
In 1988 he launched his Music Works studio, equipped and ready to fully adopt the digital reggae era, successfully as a producer returned with hit records and singles for many Jamaican and UK artist alike. Gussie continued to gather some of the best songwriters, musicians, background singers, arrangers, engineers and mixers Jamaica had to offer. By mid year, the first full length albums to showcase the masterfully crafted, dominant sounds of the Music Works studio, was The Mighty Diamonds
"Get Ready" and Gregory Isaacs' "Red Rose For Gregory", and both released just months apart. The latter of the two saw the spawn of the monumental "Rumours" track described as a hard hitting, bass heavy driven electro-dancehall stomp. To great success, Gussie produced several artists off the following "Rumours aka Telephone Love" one riddim compilation and generated heavy Jamaican radio rotation off other tracks showcased on the "Music Works Showcase '88" release. To an enthusiastic changing and accepting reggae music market, thus began the new sound of 90's Jamaica.
Soon many artists and producers were turning up and securing studio time to record at the newly rebuilt recording studio. Gregory Isaacs' "Rumours" produced by Gussie, was the biggest hit on the Island the summer of 1988. J.C Lodge's "Telephone Love", using the same "Rumours" riddim, was the biggest reggae hit of the same year in the United States
. This hit single led to Gussie producing a full length album for Lodge in 1990 titled "Selfish Lover" which saw her team up with young dancehall sensation Shabba Ranks
on the duet titled "Hardcore Loving", and later again with Shabba Ranks' on "Telephone Love Deh Pond Mi Mind" off his full length album release, "Rappin' With The Ladies".
In 1989 Gussie reunited two of the most influential reggae artists together again Dennis Brown & Gregory Isaacs to record a full length studio album titled "No Contest". Off this extraordinary release saw the massive radio hit "Big All Around" - a hard hitting ragga dancehall anthem. Following this same trend of "pairings", Gussie continued on the path with much success in Home T, Cocoa Tea
& Shabba Ranks
full set album and on the anthemic hit singles "Pirates Anthem" and "Stop Spreading Rumours". Followed by a "3 the-hard-way" style, Gussie produced the digi-roots album, "Legit" for Freddie McGregor, Dennis Brown & Cocoa Tea which was released several years later. Gussie produced UK artist Deborahe Glasgow's self-titled album and spawned multiple radio hits. One massive hit titled "Champion Lover" stood out and was later paired with Shabba Ranks
for a cut to the same riddim titled "Mr. Loverman". UK artist Maxi Priest's "Just A Little Bit Longer" became an international hit as so was Shabba Ranks & Krystal's "Twice My Age". Many hits were coming out of the Music Works studio stable and Gussie continued to be a high profile producer way into the late 1990s working with an ensemble of Jamaican reggae artists such as Tiger
, Lady G
, Papa San
, Cocoa Tea
, Freddie McGregor
, and UK artists such as the mentioned Maxi Priest
, the trio group Aswad
and Jazz Saxophonist Courtney Pine
.
Many of Gussie's releases were issued off his very own record labels Anchor and Music Works as well on the Greensleeves, VP, Pow Wow and Shanachie record labels.
In the mid 90's, Gussie predominantly released albums on the Gone Clear Distribution label for new comer artists such as Daddy Rings with the herbalist ragga tune, and in combination style with Cocoa Tea, "Herb Fi Bun", female dancehall diva, Sasha
, veteran reggae saxophonist and long time musical associate to Gussie, Dean "Cannon" Fraser and a reunited appearance effort with The Mighty Diamonds
for the rare and underrated album release "Stand Up". Some of Gussie's mid to late 90's releases were still licensed to record labels such as Ambassador Music, Greensleeves and VP Records. Soon after his final produced full length album for the late Dennis Brown
titled "Stone Cold World" in 1999 for VP records, Gussie's productions quieted with the occasional one-off single or re-issue compilation formats of previously released material re-sequenced and repackaged.
In 2006, Gussie produced the various artists one riddim compilation album titled "Consuming Fire" for VP records' Riddim Driven series. Per the back cover sleeve notes and following the Riddim Driven series for VP, Gussie was scheduled to release two additional riddim compilations called "Ocotogan" and "Groove Master". However as of yet, these have not been released. The same year saw Gussie as co-producer for international star Rihanna's "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" released off her "Girl Like Me" studio album.
Kingston, Jamaica
Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island...
), is a reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
who worked with some of the top Jamaican reggae artists in the 1970s and later set up his own Music Works studio.
Career
Clarke started working in the music industry by cutting dub plates. He made his debut as a producer in 1972, with U-RoyU-Roy
U-Roy , OD, is a Jamaican musician, also known as The Originator. He is best known as a pioneer of toasting.-Biography:...
's "The Higher The Mountain". He established himself as the top producer of deejay
Deejay
A deejay is a reggae or dancehall musician who sings and toasts to an instrumental riddim .Deejays are not to be confused with disc jockeys from other music genres like hip-hop, where they select and play music. Dancehall/reggae DJs who select riddims to play are called selectors...
s in the early 1970s with albums such as Big Youth
Big Youth
Manley Augustus Buchanan , better known as Big Youth , is a Jamaican deejay, mostly known for his work during the 1970s....
's Screaming Target, and I-Roy
I-Roy
Roy Samuel Reid better known as I-Roy was a Jamaican DJ who had a very prolific career during the 1970s.-Biography:...
's Presenting I Roy, both regarded as among the best deejay albums ever produced. Through the 1970s and early 1980s he worked with artists such as Dennis Brown
Dennis Brown
Dennis Emmanuel Brown was a Jamaican reggae singer. During his prolific career, which began in the late 1960s when he was aged eleven, he recorded more than 75 albums and was one of the major stars of lovers rock, a sub-genre of reggae...
, Gregory Isaacs
Gregory Isaacs
Gregory Anthony Isaacs was a Jamaican reggae musician. Milo Miles, writing in the New York Times, described Isaacs as "the most exquisite vocalist in reggae". His nicknames include Cool Ruler and Lonely Lover....
, Augustus Pablo
Augustus Pablo
Horace Swaby , known as Augustus Pablo, was a Jamaican roots reggae and dub record producer, melodica player and keyboardist, active from the 1970s onwards. He popularized the use of the melodica in reggae music...
, Leroy Smart
Leroy Smart
-Biography:Smart was born in 1952 and orphaned aged 2. He was raised at Maxfield Park Children's Home and educated at Alpha Boys School, where he studied singing, drums and dancing....
, and The Mighty Diamonds
The Mighty Diamonds
Mighty Diamonds are a Jamaican harmony trio, recording roots reggae with a strong Rastafarian influence. The group, which comprised Donald "Tabby" Shaw, Fitzroy "Bunny" Simpson, and Lloyd "Judge" Ferguson, was formed in 1969, and remains together as of 2010...
, including the latter's influential "Pass the Kouchie" in 1981. Much of his output was released on his own Gussy and Puppy labels.
In the late 1980s, Clarke adapted to the new dancehall
Dancehall
Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s. Initially dancehall was a more sparse version of reggae than the roots style, which had dominated much of the 1970s. In the mid-1980s, digital instrumentation became more prevalent, changing the sound considerably,...
style of reggae, but stood out from other producers by attempting to produce glossier recordings with greater potential to cross over internationally.
In 1987 while still recording at Music Mountain and Dynamic Sounds studio, the first record to bare hints of this newly embraced digital sound came from the release of The Mighty Diamonds
The Mighty Diamonds
Mighty Diamonds are a Jamaican harmony trio, recording roots reggae with a strong Rastafarian influence. The group, which comprised Donald "Tabby" Shaw, Fitzroy "Bunny" Simpson, and Lloyd "Judge" Ferguson, was formed in 1969, and remains together as of 2010...
"The Real Enemy". "Gang War", the first single off the album released on his Music Works label showcased this new digi-roots style, incorporating keyboard and computer programming driven riddims, compared to the known traditional roots reggae sound with players of live instruments recording in the studio. This release stood out as the first transitional record for Gussie and his production blending old school roots reggae to the newly embarked digital dancehall riddims to take shape for the coming years.
In 1988 he launched his Music Works studio, equipped and ready to fully adopt the digital reggae era, successfully as a producer returned with hit records and singles for many Jamaican and UK artist alike. Gussie continued to gather some of the best songwriters, musicians, background singers, arrangers, engineers and mixers Jamaica had to offer. By mid year, the first full length albums to showcase the masterfully crafted, dominant sounds of the Music Works studio, was The Mighty Diamonds
The Mighty Diamonds
Mighty Diamonds are a Jamaican harmony trio, recording roots reggae with a strong Rastafarian influence. The group, which comprised Donald "Tabby" Shaw, Fitzroy "Bunny" Simpson, and Lloyd "Judge" Ferguson, was formed in 1969, and remains together as of 2010...
"Get Ready" and Gregory Isaacs' "Red Rose For Gregory", and both released just months apart. The latter of the two saw the spawn of the monumental "Rumours" track described as a hard hitting, bass heavy driven electro-dancehall stomp. To great success, Gussie produced several artists off the following "Rumours aka Telephone Love" one riddim compilation and generated heavy Jamaican radio rotation off other tracks showcased on the "Music Works Showcase '88" release. To an enthusiastic changing and accepting reggae music market, thus began the new sound of 90's Jamaica.
Soon many artists and producers were turning up and securing studio time to record at the newly rebuilt recording studio. Gregory Isaacs' "Rumours" produced by Gussie, was the biggest hit on the Island the summer of 1988. J.C Lodge's "Telephone Love", using the same "Rumours" riddim, was the biggest reggae hit of the same year in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. This hit single led to Gussie producing a full length album for Lodge in 1990 titled "Selfish Lover" which saw her team up with young dancehall sensation Shabba Ranks
Shabba Ranks
Shabba Ranks is a Jamaican dancehall musician.He was one of the most popular dancehall artists of his generation. He was also one of the first Jamaican deejays to gain worldwide acceptance, and recognition for his 'slack' lyrical expressions and content, when "ridin' di riddim"...
on the duet titled "Hardcore Loving", and later again with Shabba Ranks' on "Telephone Love Deh Pond Mi Mind" off his full length album release, "Rappin' With The Ladies".
In 1989 Gussie reunited two of the most influential reggae artists together again Dennis Brown & Gregory Isaacs to record a full length studio album titled "No Contest". Off this extraordinary release saw the massive radio hit "Big All Around" - a hard hitting ragga dancehall anthem. Following this same trend of "pairings", Gussie continued on the path with much success in Home T, Cocoa Tea
Cocoa Tea
Cocoa Tea is a Jamaican reggae/dancehall singer, songwriter, and DJ.- Biography :Cocoa Tea was popular in Jamaica from 1985, but has become successful worldwide only since the 1990s...
& Shabba Ranks
Shabba Ranks
Shabba Ranks is a Jamaican dancehall musician.He was one of the most popular dancehall artists of his generation. He was also one of the first Jamaican deejays to gain worldwide acceptance, and recognition for his 'slack' lyrical expressions and content, when "ridin' di riddim"...
full set album and on the anthemic hit singles "Pirates Anthem" and "Stop Spreading Rumours". Followed by a "3 the-hard-way" style, Gussie produced the digi-roots album, "Legit" for Freddie McGregor, Dennis Brown & Cocoa Tea which was released several years later. Gussie produced UK artist Deborahe Glasgow's self-titled album and spawned multiple radio hits. One massive hit titled "Champion Lover" stood out and was later paired with Shabba Ranks
Shabba Ranks
Shabba Ranks is a Jamaican dancehall musician.He was one of the most popular dancehall artists of his generation. He was also one of the first Jamaican deejays to gain worldwide acceptance, and recognition for his 'slack' lyrical expressions and content, when "ridin' di riddim"...
for a cut to the same riddim titled "Mr. Loverman". UK artist Maxi Priest's "Just A Little Bit Longer" became an international hit as so was Shabba Ranks & Krystal's "Twice My Age". Many hits were coming out of the Music Works studio stable and Gussie continued to be a high profile producer way into the late 1990s working with an ensemble of Jamaican reggae artists such as Tiger
Tiger
The tiger is the largest cat species, reaching a total body length of up to and weighing up to . Their most recognizable feature is a pattern of dark vertical stripes on reddish-orange fur with lighter underparts...
, Lady G
Lady G
Lady G, born Janice Fyffe, is a female Jamaican dancehall and reggae deejay. She is best known for her song "Man a Bad Man" from the film Third World Cop. She is little known outside of Jamaica but has a firm fan base there. Other songs include "Nuff Respect", "Round Table Talk" , "Certain Friends"...
, Papa San
Papa San
Tyrone Thompson, better known as Papa San, is a Jamaican reggae, dancehall and gospel singer.- Biography :Born in 1966, he was raised by his Rastafarian grandmother and turned to Christianity in 1997...
, Cocoa Tea
Cocoa Tea
Cocoa Tea is a Jamaican reggae/dancehall singer, songwriter, and DJ.- Biography :Cocoa Tea was popular in Jamaica from 1985, but has become successful worldwide only since the 1990s...
, Freddie McGregor
Freddie McGregor
Freddie McGregor has been variously a singer, musician and producer. According to Allmusic he is one of reggae's most durable and soulful singers, with a steady career that started in the 1960s, when he was just seven years old.-Biography:In 1963 he joined with Ernest Wilson and Peter Austin to...
, and UK artists such as the mentioned Maxi Priest
Maxi Priest
Max Alfred "Maxi" Priest is a British reggae vocalist of Jamaican descent. He is best known for singing reggae music with a R&B influence, otherwise known as reggae fusion, and became one of the first international successes who regularly dabbled in the genre as well as being one of the most...
, the trio group Aswad
Aswad
Aswad are a long-lasting British reggae group, noted for adding strong R&B and soul influences to the reggae sound. They have been performing since the mid 1970s, having released a total of twenty-one albums.-History:...
and Jazz Saxophonist Courtney Pine
Courtney Pine
Courtney Pine CBE is an English jazz musician. At school he studied the clarinet, although he is known primarily for his saxophone playing. Pine is a multi-instrumentalist, also playing the flute, clarinet, bass Clarinet and keyboards...
.
Many of Gussie's releases were issued off his very own record labels Anchor and Music Works as well on the Greensleeves, VP, Pow Wow and Shanachie record labels.
In the mid 90's, Gussie predominantly released albums on the Gone Clear Distribution label for new comer artists such as Daddy Rings with the herbalist ragga tune, and in combination style with Cocoa Tea, "Herb Fi Bun", female dancehall diva, Sasha
Sasha (deejay)
Sasha is a dancehall deejay.Born in Kingston, Jamaica, she was raised in Brooklyn. Her first big hit was "Kill the Bitch" while she as still well in her teens...
, veteran reggae saxophonist and long time musical associate to Gussie, Dean "Cannon" Fraser and a reunited appearance effort with The Mighty Diamonds
The Mighty Diamonds
Mighty Diamonds are a Jamaican harmony trio, recording roots reggae with a strong Rastafarian influence. The group, which comprised Donald "Tabby" Shaw, Fitzroy "Bunny" Simpson, and Lloyd "Judge" Ferguson, was formed in 1969, and remains together as of 2010...
for the rare and underrated album release "Stand Up". Some of Gussie's mid to late 90's releases were still licensed to record labels such as Ambassador Music, Greensleeves and VP Records. Soon after his final produced full length album for the late Dennis Brown
Dennis Brown
Dennis Emmanuel Brown was a Jamaican reggae singer. During his prolific career, which began in the late 1960s when he was aged eleven, he recorded more than 75 albums and was one of the major stars of lovers rock, a sub-genre of reggae...
titled "Stone Cold World" in 1999 for VP records, Gussie's productions quieted with the occasional one-off single or re-issue compilation formats of previously released material re-sequenced and repackaged.
In 2006, Gussie produced the various artists one riddim compilation album titled "Consuming Fire" for VP records' Riddim Driven series. Per the back cover sleeve notes and following the Riddim Driven series for VP, Gussie was scheduled to release two additional riddim compilations called "Ocotogan" and "Groove Master". However as of yet, these have not been released. The same year saw Gussie as co-producer for international star Rihanna's "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" released off her "Girl Like Me" studio album.
Original albums produced by Clarke
- Aswad - Too Wicked (1990)
- Big Youth - Screaming Target (1972)
- Cocoa Tea - Authorized (1991)
- Cocoa Tea - Can't Live So (1994)
- Cocoa Tea - Maximum Replay (1996)
- Courtney Pine - Closer To Home (1990) NOTE: Remixed album re-released (1992)
- Daddy Rings - Stand Out (1996-7)
- Dean Fraser - Dub 'N' Sax (1998)
- Delroy Wilson - Worth Your Weight In Gold (1984)
- Deborahe Glasgow - Deborahe Glasgow (1989)
- Dennis Brown - Unchallenged (1990)
- Dennis Brown - Maximum Replay (1996) NOTE: Includes the never-before-releases "Temptress" & "Just A Little Bit Longer" as performed by Maxi Priest - Refer to Maxi Priest entry below in next Content
- Dennis Brown - Stone Cold World (1999)
- Home T, Cocoa Tea, and Shabba Ranks - Holding On (1989)
- Gregory Isaacs - Absent (1993) - ALSO KNOWN AS: "Unattended" released on Pow Wow Records
- Gregory Isaacs - I.O.U. (1989)
- Gregory Isaacs - Maximum Replay (1996)
- Gregory Isaacs - Private Beach PartyPrivate Beach PartyPrivate Beach Party is a 1985 album by the Jamaican reggae singer Gregory Isaacs. The album continued Isaacs' working relationship with producer Augustus "Gussie" Clarke, to whom he would return in 1988 for the hugely successful "Rumours" and Red Rose for Gregory...
(1985) - Gregory Isaacs - Red Rose For Gregory (1988)
- Gregory Isaacs & Dennis Brown - Two Bad Superstars (1978)
- Gregory Isaacs & Dennis Brown - Judge Not (1984)
- Gregory Isaacs & Dennis Brown - No Contest (1989)
- Hortense Ellis - Reflections (1979)
- I Roy - Presenting I Roy (1973)
- J.C. Lodge - I Believe In You (1987)
- J.C. Lodge - Maximum Replay (1998)
- J.C. Lodge - Selfish Lover (1990)
- Freddie McGregor - Hard To Get (1992)
- Freddie McGregor - Carry Go Bring Come (1994)
- Freddie McGregor - Maximum Replay (1996)
- Freddie McGregor - Rumours (1997)
- Freddie McGregor, Dennis Brown and Cocoa Tea - Legit (1993)
- Lady G - Nuff Respect (1998)
- Leroy Smart Featuring The Mighty Diamonds - Disco Showcase (1979)
- Mikey Roots - Praise & Honour (1995-6)
- Ninja Man - Settle All Scores (1998)
- Papa San - The Sistem" (1990) NOTE: six (6) tracks produced by Gussie Clarke. two (2) other tracks remixed by The Music Works Crew
- Pinchers - Season To Season (1997)
- Sasha - Come Again (1996)
- Shabba Ranks - Hard Core (1998) NOTE: Released on the Gone Clear label (previously released Gussie produced material)
- Shabba Ranks - Mr. Maximum (1991-2)
- Shabba Ranks - Rappin' With The Ladies (1990)
- Shaka Shamba - Big Surprise (1996)
- The Mighty Diamonds - Backstage (1983)
- The Mighty Diamonds - Changes (1981)
- The Mighty Diamonds - Dubwise (1981)
- The Mighty Diamonds - Indestructible (1981)
- The Mighty Diamonds - The Roots Is Here (1982)
- The Mighty Diamonds - The Real Enemy (1987)
- The Mighty Diamonds - Get Ready (1988)
- The Mighty Diamonds - Maximum Replay (1996)
- The Mighty Diamonds - Stand Up (1998)
- The Revolutionaries - Dread At The Controls Dub (1978)
- Tetrack - Trouble (1983)
- Trinity (musician)Trinity - Showcase (1978)
- Various Artist - Chatty Chatty Mouth Versions (1993)
- Various Artist - Consuming Fire - Riddim Driven (2006)
- Various Artist - Hardcore Ragga (1990)
- Various Artist - Music Works Showcase '88 (1988) - Rumours - riddim
- Various Artist - Music Works Showcase '89 (1989) - Mund Yu Dis - riddim
- Various Artist - Music Works Showcase '90 (1990)
- Various Artist - Music Works Showcase '91 (1991) - Twice My Age riddim
- Various Artist - Music Works Showcase '97 (1997)
- Various Artist - Music Works Selections '97 (1997)
- Various Artist - Ram Dancehall (1989)
- Various Artist - Reggae Anthology Music Works Classics (2002)
Original 7", 12" or cd format song listings and/or singles produced by Clarke
- Admiral Tibet - The Lunatic 7" vinyl, cd
- Admiral Tibet (a-side) Admiral Tibet & Shabba Ranks - Tell Me Which One // No Competition (1990) 12" vinyl, cd
- Aswad - Best Of My Love (1990) 12" vinyl, cd
- Aswad - Old Fire Stick (1990) 7" vinyl, cd
- Aswad - Smile (1990) 12" vinyl, cd
- Aswad & Shabba Ranks - Fire (1990) 12" vinyl, cd single, cd
- Beres Hammond - Call Me (1988) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Brian & Tony Gold - Maniac (1989) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Carl Meeks - You Are So Fine (1990) 7" & 12" vinyl
- Carl Meeks (a-side) Admiral Tibet (aa-side) - Rude Girl Sandra // Give Us The Opportunity (1990) 12" vinyl
- Cocoa Tea - Bunn It Down (1993) 12" vinyl, cd
- Cocoa Tea - One Away Woman (1991) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Cocoa Tea - She Is So Faithful (1994) 7" vinyl, cd
- Cocoa Tea - Why Turn Down The Sound (1990) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Cocoa Tea & Cutty Ranks - Gang War (1992) 7" & 12" vinyl NOTE: Flip side of the 12" has solo cut from Cocoa Tea
- Cocoa Tea & J.C. Lodge - Time For Love (1991) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Cocoa Tea & Krystal - The More Them Chat (1991) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Cocoa Tea & Nadine SutherlandNadine SutherlandNadine Sutherland is a Jamaican reggae singer whose early career was nurtured by Bob Marley. She went on to become a successful dancehall artist in the 1990s.-Biography:...
- It's Now or Never (1990) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd - Cocoa Tea, Dennis Brown, Freddie McGregor & Mutabaruka - Bone Lies (1993) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Courtney Pine - Get Busy // Kingston (1992) 12" vinyl, cd single, cd
- Cutty Ranks - Wealth (1992) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Daddy Nuttea - My Sound Come Back // My Sound Come Back (Dub) (1993) 12" vinyl, cd NOTE: Label: Delabel - off the album "Paris Kingston Paris" - Song produced/mixed by Gussie Clarke.
- Daddy Rings (a-side) Daddy Rings (aa-side) - Cat & The Fiddle // Big Up All The Hustlers (1997) 7" vinyl, cd
- Daddy Rings (a-side) Daddy Rings & Cocoa Tea - Herb Fi Bun // Herb Fi Bun (Combination) (1997) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Dean Fraser (a-side) Robbie Lyn (aa-side) - He's Got It // Classic (1997) 7" vinyl, cd NOTE: Dean Fraser's - He's Got It appears on the cd release of "Music Works Selections"
- Deborahe Glasgow - Champion Lover (1989) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Deborahe Glasgow - Give Me That Touch (1989) 7" & 12" vinyl,cd
- Deborahe Glasgow & Shabba Ranks - Hardcore Loving (1990) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Deborahe Glasgow & Shabba Ranks (a-side) Little Twitch (aa-side) - Don't Test Me // Can't Stand Me (1990) 12" vinyl
- Dennis Brown - Home Boy (1990) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Dennis Brown - You Know You Want To Be Loved (1990) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Dennis Brown & Cocoa Tea - To The Foundation (1990) 12" vinyl, cd
- Dennis Brown & Gregory Isaacs - Big All Around (1989) 12" vinyl, cd
- Dennis Brown & TigerTiger (musician)Norman Washington Jackson , better known as Tiger, is a Jamaican dancehall musician active since the late 1970s. He is known for his "growling" style of deejaying, often imitated by other dancehall deejays since his initial rise to fame....
- Make Up Your Mind (1990) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd - Dennis Brown & Fabiana - Mixed Feelings (1991) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Dennis Creary - Ghetto Life (1989) 7" vinyl
- Dennis Creary - Sweet Sixteen (1989) 7" & 12" vinyl
- Donovan - Embarrassment That (1990) 7" vinyl
- E.T. - Bruck Out (1993) cd NOTE: Released on Shabba Ranks - "No Competition" album
- Eek-A-Mouse - Border Patrol (1991) cd - released on Eek-A-Mouse-"U' Neek" album
- Eek-A-Mouse - Rude Boy's A Foreign (1991) 12" vinyl, cd - released on Eek-A-Mouse-"U' Neek" album
- Fabiana & Shabba Ranks - Fancy Girl (1991) 12" vinyl, cd
- Freddie McGregor - Playing Hard To Get (1992) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Freddie McGregor - Midnight Lover (1991) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Freddie McGregor & Cynthia Schloss - Not As Happy (1988) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Freddie McGregor (a-side) Freddie McGregor & Daddy Rings (aa-side) - Rumours // Rumours (DJ Version) (Extended Club Mix) (1997) 12" vinyl, cd single, cd
- Gregory Isaacs - Don't Call Me Baldhead (1993) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Gregory Isaacs - Mind Yu Dis (1989) 12' vinyl, cd
- Gregory Isaacs - Report To Me (1989) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Gregory Isaacs - Rumours (1988) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Gregory Isaacs - Temporary Lover (1997) 7" vinyl, cd NOTE: Appears on the cd release of "Music Works Selections"
- Gregory Isaacs - Thank You (1993) 12 vinyl, cd
- Gregory Isaacs & The Mighty Diamonds - Roughneck (1988) 12" vinyl, cd
- Gregory Isaacs, Freddie McGregor & Ninjaman - John Law Flip side: Above The Law (1991) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Gregory Isaacs (a-side) Dean Fraser (aa-side) - Too Good To Be True // Too Good To Be True (Instrumental) (1989) 12" vinyl, cd
- Gregory Isaacs (a-side) Gregory Isaacs & J.C. Lodge (aa-side) - Don Man Girl // Don Man Girl (Combination) (1993) 12" vinyl, cd (Gregory Isaacs - "Don Man Girl" released on both vinyl and cd)
- Home T - Single Life (1988) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Home T, Cocoa Tea & Shabba Ranks - Pirates Anthem (1989) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Home T, Cocoa Tea & Shabba Ranks - Stop Spreading Rumours (1989) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- J.C. Lodge - Hurricane (1989) 12" vinyl, cd
- J.C. Lodge - Operator (1990) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- J.C. Lodge - Selfish Lover (1990) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- J.C. Lodge - System (1994) cd NOTE: single track produced by Clarke off Japanese import release "Let Love Inside"
- J.C. Lodge - Telephone Love (1990) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- J.C. Lodge & Shabba Ranks - Telephone Love De Pon Mi Mind (1990) 12" vinyl, cd
- J.C. Lodge & Sugar Minott - Since You Came Into My Life (1988) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- J.C. Lodge & Tiger - Love Me Baby (1990) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- J.C. Lodge (a-side) J.C. Lodge (aa-side) - You Don't Really Want My Love // Together We Will Stay (1987) 12" vinyl, cd
- Johnny Osbourne - Trickster (1989) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Johnny Osbourne & Lady G - Sweet Mouth (1989) 7" & 12" vinyl
- Josey Wales - Slackness Done (1989) 7" & 12" vinyl
- Ken Boothe - A Man Is A Man (1988) 12" vinyl, cd
- Krystal - All Around The World (1990) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Krystal - Don't Hold Back - (1990) 7" & 12" vinyl
- Krystal & Shabba Ranks - Steady Man (1990) 12" vinyl, cd
- Krystal & Shabba Ranks - Twice My Age (1990) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Janet Lee Davis - Oops There Goes My Heart (1991) 12" vinyl
- Lady G - Certain Friends (1992) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Lady G - Dem Things No Right (1989) 7" & 12" vinyl
- Lady G - License Your Hand (1989) 7" & 12" vinyl
- Lady G - Man Dem A Get Tight (1989) 7" 12" vinyl, cd
- Lady G - Nuff Respect (1988) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Lady G (a-side) Lady G (aa-side) - Too Much Gun Talk // Pay The People Dem (1993) 7" vinyl
- Lady G & Shabba Ranks - Fanciness (Ragga Mix) (1991) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd NOTE: Flip side has Original Mix which is an entirely different riddim to the Ragga Mix
- Maxi Priest - Hard To Get (1992) cd NOTE: song from the 'Fe Real' album
- Maxi Priest - Just A Little Bit Longer (1990) 12" vinyl, cd NOTE: song from the 'Bonafide' album
- Maxi Priest - Not On My Own (1990) cd - NOTE: b-side to Peace Throughout the World single
- Maxi Priest - Temptress (1990) cd NOTE: song from the 'Bonafide' album
- Maxi Priest & Tiger - I Know Love (1990) cd - NOTE: b-side to Close to You single
- Nadine Sutherland - Don't Take Your Love Away (1988) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Nadine Sutherland - Just You and Me Tonight (1988) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Nadine Sutherland - Mr Hard To Please (1989) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Papa San - Dancehall Good To We (1990) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Papa San & Fabiana - It's Not Enough (1990) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Papa San & Lady G - Round Table Talk (1990) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Peter Hunningale - A Love Like This (1990) 7" vinyl, cd
- Rebel Princess - One More Time (1993) 7" & 12" vinyl
- Rebel Princess, Cocoa Tea & Shabba Ranks - Just Be Good To Me (1990) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Rebel Rockers - We Belong Together (1990) 7" & 12" vinyl NOTE: AKA - Rebel Princess
- Robert French - A Little More Time (1990) 7" & 12" vinyl
- Sanchez & Cynthia Schloss - I'm Your Puppet (1990) 12" vinyl, cd
- Sanchez & Lady G (a-side) Krystal (aa-side) - Half My Age // Twice My Age (1990) 12" vinyl, cd
- Sasha (a-side) Sasha & Shaka Shamba (aa-side - Girls // Black & White (1997) 7" vinyl, cd
- Shabba Ranks - No Bother Dis (Rude Boy) (1989) 12" vinyl, cd
- Shinehead - The Real Rock (1990) 12" vinyl, cd NOTE: remixed by the Music Works Crew
- Spanner Banner - Faith (1990) 7" & 12" vinyl
- Sophia George - Hot Stuff (1989) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- Stefan Penicillin - Tek Book (2004) 7" vinyl
- Sugar Minott - Funking Song (1988) 12" vinyl, cd
- The Mighty Diamonds - (a-side) The Mighty Diamonds (aa-side) - Gang War // Teenage Pregnancy (1987) 12" vinyl, cd [NOTE: Teenage Pregnancy appears on 12" vinyl only]
- The Mighty Diamonds - Mr. Bodyguard (1991) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd
- The Mighty Diamonds - (a-side) The Mighty Diamonds (aa-side) - Heavy Load // Warmonger (1988) 7" & 12" vinyl, cd [NOTE: Warmonger appears on 12" vinyl only]
- Thriller U - Before and After (1995) single track on cd
- Thriller U - What Have I Done (1996) single track on cd
Compilations of Clarke's productions
- Black Foundation (1976)
- Black Foundation Dub (1976)
- Augustus Clarke - Greensleeves 12" Rulers
- Crucial Reggae Driven By Sly & Robbie (1982)
- Funny Feeling (197?)
- Gussie Presenting The Right Tracks (1976)
- Music Works Sho'Case (1982)
- Music Works Vol 1 (1971–83)
- Music Works vol 2 (1971–83)
- The Best In The Business (1980)
- Ram Dancehall (1989)
- Hardcore Ragga (1990)