--- - |- Freddie McGregor was born on June 27, 1956 in Clarendon, Jamaica and has been variously a singer , musician and producer. He is also one of reggae's most durable and soulful singers, with an incredibly steady career that started all the way back in the 1960s, when he was just seven years old. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYpsb3GdFIA ~~- Freddie McGregor
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is one of the greatest reggae albums ever made. This is one of the most outstanding tracks on the album, stretching out Devon Russell's "Jah Hold the Key", without the horns, but with a nice keyboard overdub played by Pablove Black
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The (Detroit) Spinners "Ghetto Child" is one of those records that was a lesser hit in their American homeland (reaching #4 on the R'n'B chart, and barely scraping the pop charts), but was the only one of their 1970s tracks to make the Top Ten in the UK.As this seems to be the only reggae cut of it, it seems to have been much less popular than "It's A Shame" and "I'll Be Around" in Jamaica. Des...
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I believe you're having a presidential election some time soon in the USA. This is Freddie McGregor's take on the George Jackson/George Soule 1973 country soul classic, encouraging voters to engage with the political process, recorded at Muscle Shoals. This particular cut dates from 1974, and was released on Alphonso Bailey's World Champ imprint. Backing is by the Soul Syndicate.
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Here, from round about 1980, doing his thing on a full-length overdubbed "Discomix" cut of Dennis Brown's ancient Studio One Gem "Created by the Father", in which he waxes about the relative merits of the Christmas shows put on at two rival venues, the Regal and the Carib.
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--- - |- Freddie McGregor was born on June 27, 1956 in Clarendon, Jamaica and has been variously a singer , musician and producer. He is also one of reggae's most durable and soulful singers, with an incredibly steady career that started all the way back in the 1960s, when he was just seven years old. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYpsb3GdFIA ~~- Freddie McGregor
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| 2 Big Ship |
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| 3 We Need More Love |
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| 5 What Difference Does It Make |
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