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| 5 Groovin' In Style (Aka 'groovin' Out On Life') | |
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from the long forgotten reggae great Ken Parker - this one is a Duke reid production. My recent research reveals that Ken Parker was a devout Christian, who recorded two ultra-rare gospel LPs for Coxsone Dodd's Tabernacle label - "Keep Your Eyes on Jesus" and "Sacred Songs - I Shall Not Be Moved". It seems fairly clear that the dreadlocks and Rastafari singers who were selling records from the mid
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On Monday, I posted Mississippi John Hurt's take on this century old hymn tune, as rewritten by A.P. Carter - http://mog.com/Baudolino/blog/1410963, and mentioned a reggae cover by Ken Parker. This was produced by Warwick Lyn of Maytals fame at Dynamic in 1973, and released in Jamaica on the Jaguar label. In Britain, it was released on the Dragon label. The second vocalist on here is uncredited...
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here using his upper register only on this Sam Cooke cover from round about 1969-70
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Here is another tune from former reggae star Ken Parker, now a Florida-based gospel performer
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Number 2 in an occasional series: The Dynamic Ken ParkerA singer very much in the mould of Slim Smith and Pat Kelly, with a soaring falsetto, Ken Parker (born 1948)enjoyed some considerable success with Studio One ("The Choking kind"), Duke Reid ("True True True") and Joe Gibbs ("Sad Mood") in the 1960s, but soon slipped into recording cover versions, and thence into obscurity during the "Rasta...
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