• Includes many of the biggest reggae hits of the era. • Eleven tracks new to CD. • One of Jamaican’s most popular and influential artists.
By the late 1970s, Dennis Emmanuel Brown was widely acknowledged as the Crown Prince Of Reggae, having scored more Jamaican hits in the decade than any of his contemporaries – including Bob Marley And The Wailers.
Following a hugely successful spell with famed producer Niney, he reunited with serial hitmaker Joe Gibbs, for whom he had previously recorded earlier in the decade, with their renewed union immediately subsequently spawning a succession of major Jamaican hits.
Among these were such reggae classics as ‘Ghetto Girl’, ‘Equal Rights’, ‘Ain’t That Loving You’, ‘How Can I Leave You’, ‘Man Next Door’ (as famously covered by The Slits), and a memorable reworking of, ‘Money In My Pocket’, which six years after his original 1972 version provided the singer with his international breakthrough, with the single peaking at 14 in the UK charts in the Spring of 79.
This 2CD collection brings together both sides of all of Brown’s Joe Gibbs-produced 7” singles released between 1977 to 1981, which include the aforementioned hits, his remaining reggae chartbusters and an array of dub and DJ versions, eleven of which make their CD debut.
- 1 -
1. Rolling Down
2. Rain
3. Ghetto Girl
4. Ghetto Version
5. I Hope We Get To Love In Time
6. Timely Lover
7. Ain't That Loving You
8. Hole In the Bucket
9. Equal Rights
10. Equal Rights Style
11. Man Next Door
12. Get Away
13. Money In My Pocket
14. Cool Runnings
15. A True
16. Nu True
17. How Can I Leave You
18. Bubbling Love
19. Should I
20. Cassandra
21. So Jah Say
22. So Jah Say (Live)
- 2 -
1. Your Man
2. Assigned To Love
3. Created By the Father
4. Created Dub
5. Say What You're Saying
6. Honey Money
7. I'm Coming Home
8. Homeward Bound
9. Let Me Love You
10. All Night Love
11. Girl I've Got a Date
12. Blind Date
13. Open Up
14. Due Season
15. A Little Bit More
16. Love Dub
17. Foul Play
18. The World is Troubled
19. On the Rocks
20. Get High On Your Love
