This gentleman has been posted on here many times before, so should be well enough known by now - not the most prolific performer in the reggae era, and running a parallel career in gospel, where his attentions have been solely directed for the last thirty-five years, Ken Parker cut a number of blazing soul covers. This was first released on Studio One in 1969; the backing band is Sound Dimension, with Eric "Ricco Bacca" Frater's guitar to the fore here. The first cut, though, is the triple length 12" mix released round about 1980, letting the rhythm really take control

Despite the robustness of the rhythm, Coxsone Dodd only reworked it once, although it was revived in the Rockers style in the late seventies at Channel One, with Tapper Zukie riding the rhythm for "New Star" for one. Here, though, is saxman Roland Alphonso riding the first cut on "The Hark" -

William Bell's original is not itself terribly well known, so for the sake of historical completeness, here it is