There's very little info out there about this amazing Jamaican track that I've been able to find (as always, feel free to write/ comment with any info). This duo's harmonies are out of this world, and the song and performance are top notch.
from 1964...
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GREAT TRACK!!!!!!!!
This is a great track. I got it on the Island 40th anniversary comp. I've never seen a label scan though. Thanks. W.
this tune is on Indiependant Jamaica, a classic ska album from the 6ts on trojan.
this is also on a rare-ish album called Behold How Sweet It Is which they recorded in 1965?...sounds to me like they were trying to crack the US market...
it has one of my favorite versions of My Girl [the Smokey Robinson song] on it...its pretty much straight forward cover, no ska beat or anything, but they do something really nice with the harmony on the chorus...
ana..
silly me...i just realized that you are actually asking for info...
the Blues Busters [Lloyd Cambell and Phillip James] started recording in the late fifties and were one of the first Jamaican groups to try to cross over into American pop...
they played at the 1964 Worlds Fair and recorded the album i mentioned in my previous post while they were in NYC...
they mostly worked with Byron Lee...but the one early recording i have of them is with Luther Williams and his Orchestra and falls very much into the R&B vein...
apparently they put out singles on a number of labels in the US...including some on Minit...and recorded throughout the seventies [i don't own any of the latter stuff]...
hope that helps..
ana..
Mexican 60s version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5eh2UuwAfU
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