Various Artists - If I Had a Pair of Wings: Jamaican Doo Wop, Vol. I - III

Death Is Not The End

£16.65

Format: CD Album
Catalogue No.: DEATH042
Barcode: 5050580767058
Release Date: 9th July 2021
Genre: World/Reggae (Ska)

01: Alton & Eddie Muriel
02: Jiving Juniors Dearest Darling
03: The Echoes & Celestials Are You Mine
04: Jimmy Cliff Dearest Beverley
05: Keith & Enid Send Me
06: The Downbeats Midnight Love
07: Chuck & Dobby 'Til the End of Time
08: The Mellowlarks Album of Memory
09: Horthens & Stranger True Love
10: Dobby Dobson Diamonds & Pearls
11: The Charmers I'm Going Back
12: The Blues Busters Pleading for Mercy
13: Owen & Millie Do You Know
14: Laurel Aitken Heavenly Angel
15: Lloyd Clark Smithie's Sextet Now I Know the Reason
16: The Charmers & Prince Buster Now You Want to Cry
17: The Rhythm Aces & The Caribs A Thousand Teardrops
18: Jiving Juniors Have Faith in Me
19: Chuck & Dobby I Love My Teacher
20: The Blues Busters Call Your Name Forever
21: The Echoes Celestials I Love You Forever03:20
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22: Wilfred Jackie Edwards Hear My Cry
23: Jiving Juniors Valerie
24: The Magic Notes Why Did You Leave Me
25: Rupert Edwards Guilty Convict
26: Keith & Enid Worried over You
27: The Moonlighters Julie
28: Higgs & Wilson How Can I Be Sure
29: Jiving Juniors Sweet as an Angel
30: Alton & Eddie My Heaven
31: Higgs & Wilson When You Tell Me Baby
32: Lloyd Adams I Wish Your Picture Was You
33: The Moonlighters Don't You Know
34: Ricketts & Rowe Dream Girl
35: Annette & Shenley The First Time We Met
36: Belltones I'll Always Call Your Name
37: Ruddy & Sketto Little Schoolgirl
38: Derrick & Patsy Crying in the Chapel
39: The Blues Busters I've Done You Wrong
40: Jiving Juniors My Sweet Angel
41: Higgs & Wilson Change of Mind
42: Wilfred Jackie Edwards Never Go Away

A double CD served in a gatefold card case with extensive liner notes from author of People Funny Boy: The Genius of Lee 'Scratch' Perry and Solid Foundation: An Oral History of Reggae, David Katz.

DINTE collects together all three volumes of the critically acclaimed If I Had a Pair of Wings LP compilation series for this special double CD edition, with extensive and illuminating notes.

"...all of the music on this compilation is the result of the forward-thinking artists and producers that realised the worth of local Jamaican artistry during a time when the island's leading political figures had not yet managed to throw off the colonial yolk. These are sounds with a certain innocence and the optimistic promise of better to come, with the influence of American pop ballads and doo-wop looming large, yet already pointing to the innovations of the future. Listen keenly and take in the sounds of the Jamaican music industry at its very beginnings, its singers and players drawing from the popular styles of the island's larger neighbour and already changing those styles into something their own." - David Katz

Lauren Laverne's comp of the week on BBC Radio 6 Music w/c 11th Jan.

Guardian feature: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/oct/12/a-thousand-teardrops-how-doo-wop-kickstarted-jamaica-pop-revolution-reggae-rocksteady