Pete Wingfield's "Eighteen With a Bullet", based on an extended metaphor of using chart terms to describe a developing relationship, was his only hit in his own right, although he has a fairly distinguished record as a keyboard player, producer and songwriter.The style and delivery of the song was ideally suited to Jamaican singer/producer Derrick Harriott's mid-seventies smooth "Uptown" soul s...
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If Tyrone Davis had been able to collect the royalties on all the Jamaican covers of "Can I Change my Mind" and "Turn Back the Hands of Time" since 1970, then he would have enjoyed a very comfortable retirement, as his songs were regularly covered and reworked by the likes of Delroy Wilson, Alton Ellis, George Faith and Winston Francis.This version is a full length extended mix, released in 197...
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Derrick "Preacher" Harriott has appeared here on numerous ocasions, mostly as a producer, but occasionally as a singer. Here he is, in the early to mid 1970s (possibly 1974-ish), with a self-penned song that does rather blatantly nick the bassline of the Isley Brothers' "It's Your Thing"
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| 1 The Undertaker |
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| 2 Bombshell |
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| 3 The Overtaker |
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| 4 Biafra |
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| 5 Reggae Showdown |
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