Dry Up Your Tears Riddim – Upsetter

Dry Up Your Tears Riddim, issued on the Upsetter label in 1968, is a Lee Scratch Perry production that pairs The Mellotones’ Dry Up Your Tears with The Upsetters’ Bigger Joke from the following year. It captures Perry’s early Upsetter-era rocksteady sound in a tight, two-track package, with the vocal cut and the instrumental side working as a concise snapshot of his late-60s studio style. The Mellotones bring the standout title track, while The Upsetters’ Bigger Joke adds the sharper band side that helped define Perry’s growing label identity in 1968 and 1969.