- Digital
Various Artists
If I Had a Pair of Wings: Jamaican Doo Wop, Vol. I - III
Death Is Not The End
- Cat No: DEATH042
- Release: 2021-07-09
Track List
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1. Alton & Eddie - Muriel
03:24 -
2. Jiving Juniors - Dearest Darling
02:25 -
3. The Echoes & Celestials - Are You Mine
03:10 -
4. Jimmy Cliff - Dearest Beverley
02:39 -
5. Keith & Enid - Send Me
03:13 -
6. The Downbeats - Midnight Love
02:46 -
7. Chuck & Dobby - 'Til the End of Time
02:10 -
8. The Mellowlarks - Album of Memory
03:03 -
9. Horthens & Stranger - True Love
02:28 -
10. Dobby Dobson - Diamonds & Pearls
02:28 -
11. The Charmers - I'm Going Back
02:26 -
12. The Blues Busters - Pleading for Mercy
03:17 -
13. Owen & Millie - Do You Know
02:51 -
14. Laurel Aitken - Heavenly Angel
02:56 -
15. Lloyd Clark Smithie's Sextet - Now I Know the Reason
03:01 -
16. The Charmers & Prince Buster - Now You Want to Cry
02:37 -
17. The Rhythm Aces & The Caribs - A Thousand Teardrops
02:42 -
18. Jiving Juniors - Have Faith in Me
02:40 -
19. Chuck & Dobby - I Love My Teacher
02:43 -
20. The Blues Busters - Call Your Name Forever
03:06 -
21. The Echoes Celestials - I Love You Forever
03:20 -
22. Wilfred Jackie Edwards - Hear My Cry
02:47 -
23. Jiving Juniors - Valerie
02:55 -
24. The Magic Notes - Why Did You Leave Me
03:20 -
25. Rupert Edwards - Guilty Convict
02:28 -
26. Keith & Enid - Worried over You
03:11 -
27. The Moonlighters - Julie
02:18 -
28. Higgs & Wilson - How Can I Be Sure
02:32 -
29. Jiving Juniors - Sweet as an Angel
02:23 -
30. Alton & Eddie - My Heaven
02:29 -
31. Higgs & Wilson - When You Tell Me Baby
02:35 -
32. Lloyd Adams - I Wish Your Picture Was You
02:36 -
33. The Moonlighters - Don't You Know
02:13 -
34. Ricketts & Rowe - Dream Girl
03:23 -
35. Annette & Shenley - The First Time We Met
02:36 -
36. Belltones - I'll Always Call Your Name
03:10 -
37. Ruddy & Sketto - Little Schoolgirl
02:55 -
38. Derrick & Patsy - Crying in the Chapel
02:22 -
39. The Blues Busters - I've Done You Wrong
02:17 -
40. Jiving Juniors - My Sweet Angel
02:45 -
41. Higgs & Wilson - Change of Mind
02:58 -
42. Wilfred Jackie Edwards - Never Go Away
02:45
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DINTE collects together all three volumes of the critically acclaimed If I Had a Pair of Wings LP compilation series for this special double CD edition, with extensive and illuminating notes.
"...all of the music on this compilation is the result of the forward-thinking artists and producers that realised the worth of local Jamaican artistry during a time when the island’s leading political figures had not yet managed to throw off the colonial yolk. These are sounds with a certain innocence and the optimistic promise of better to come, with the influence of American pop ballads and doo-wop looming large, yet already pointing to the innovations of the future. Listen keenly and take in the sounds of the Jamaican music industry at its very beginnings, its singers and players drawing from the popular styles of the island’s larger neighbour and already changing those styles into something their own." - David Katz
Lauren Laverne's comp of the week on BBC Radio 6 Music w/c 11th Jan.
Guardian feature: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/oct/12/a-thousand-teardrops-how-doo-wop-kickstarted-jamaica-pop-revolution-reggae-rocksteady
