We're on to the next tune in our round-up of creepy tunes from the "loudest island in the world" and its another good one and actually one I never even knew existed until late last month. I was online doing some research and trying to dig up some more "duppy tunes" for this years mix when I came across an Ebay listing for the 1978 12" of Lone Ranger's "Barnabas Collins." Now I've got multipl...
reveals the original 7" 45 of Lone Ranger's classic "Love Bump", which is, in fact, a cautionary tale about avoiding catching unmentionable diseases from ladies of easy virtue.The rhythm here is Keith "Slim" Smith's not very well known LP track "Rougher Yet", from back in 1967. Prior to this release in 1980, it had seen service only as a dub cut on the poorly pressed "Mello Dub" as "Tomorrow is...
(the ancient festival in the Gaelic speaking world that marks the start of the quarter of the year when the nights are longest, and begins on the day when the worlds of the living and the dead are closest), here's a song about one of the undead.For those who care about such things, this was released on Winston Riley's "Techniques" label, and the rhythm is "My Conversation" by the Uniques (origi...