A few months ago I posted
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Artist:Dona V
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Album:Crying for Tomorrow
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Track:Black But Comely
"Incessantly" by Ethiopian - http://mog.com/Baudolino/blog/154155.
It's a version of "Love" (aka "Me and You" or "You and Me") recorded at Studio One by the unlucky Carlton and the Shoes.
Tonight I came upon a version cut in New York in the late Nineties by Donovan Pinnock, who records as Dona V. Coxsone Dodd had moved his operation to New York, where around 1997-99 he had a few artists (JD Smoothe, Jim Nastic, Glen Washington and Alpheus) cut new tracks on his classic rhythms. The records aren't bad in general, but it's usually the riddim that draws you in. This track's fairly decent, mind you. It was released two or three years back. The prominent backing singer is J D Smoothe.
Comments (5)
Why were Carlton and the Shoes unlucky?
Well, when Carlton Manning formed the band with his brother Donald, later of Abyssinians fame, they called themselves Carlton and the Shades. They passed the audition at Studio One, and recorded their first single. The tapes were stuck in a box and taken to be pressed. Unfortunately, the man who wrote the name on the outside had dreadful handwriting, so the printer of the record sleeves read it as Carlton and the Shoes.
The record was "Love Me Forever" - a massive Jamaican hit, and they never *did* manage to change their name back.
This, though, is the original "Love"
This is such a beautiful haunting melody!
You must have a bottomless pit of reggae classics. Love me forever...I could play it forever. You don't happen to have Happy land or Better Days in that pit of yours?
Did they not do this under the title Happy Land?
Ok Just read my comment and obviously the wine has gone to my head!
I meant Mood For Love not happy Land
The religious lyrics over the disco beat, so upbeat and unexpected. I don't think I've ever knowingly come across any of Coxsone's later recordings..Thanks.
Carlton and his "shoes" reminds me of Simmer Down being released by none other than Bob Morley, pehaps this dreadful handwriting belonged to Coxsone himself?