DOO WOP THURSDAY GOES ON A VERSION EXCURSION
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Artist:Phil Phillips & the Twilights
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Track:Sea of Love
Starting off in 1959, with Phil Phillips and the Twilights' original version of this standard, which returned to fame when used in the 1989 film starring Al Pacino and Ellen Barkin
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Followed by the Heptones rocksteady cut, released on Studio One in 1966, with Jackie Mittoo on the organ
Now, a rather rare early seventies reggae cut by the somewhat obscure Jah Fender, whose style owes a lot to U-Roy, with Prince Buster on vocals
And finally, from Prince Buster's ultra-rare and long deleted 1972 LP "The Message - Dubwise", one of the earliest dub albums ever made, in a style that Buster swiftly abandoned, here is the dub to the above - "Saladin"
Wow - it's all good, of course, but I really like Jah Fender, who I'd never heard before