Don’t Break Your Promise Riddim – Various Labels

Don’t Break Your Promise produced by Donovan Germain, Coxsone Dodd, Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare, Gitsy Willis, Phillip Burrell for Germain, Studio One, Taxi, Xterminator in 1973

Don’t Break Your Promise Riddim is a 1973 roots-era set associated with Studio One, carrying productions linked to Coxsone Dodd as well as later works from Donovan Germain, Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare, Gitsy Willis, and Phillip Burrell across Germain, Taxi, Revolutionary Sounds, and Xterminator. The lineup brings together The Chosen Few’s original Don’t Break Your Promise, The Tamlins’ take on the song, Johnny Osbourne’s Jah Promise, Barry Biggs’ Break Your Promise, and Sound Dimension’s instrumental version. Built on a classic Studio One foundation, it also shows how the same tune kept resurfacing across different Jamaican eras, from the early 1970s through the 1980s and 1990s.

Don’t Break Your Promise Riddim Tracklist:

1. Barry Biggs – Break Your Promise (1982)
2. Johnny Osbourne – Jah Promise (1979)
3. Sanchez – Promise (1993)
4. Sound Dimension – Don’t Break Your Promise Version (1973)
5. The Chosen Few – Don’t Break Your Promise (1973)
6. The Tamlins – Don’t Break Your Promise

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