Everybody Needs Love Riddim – Magnet, Studio One

Bunny Striker Lee produced Everybody Needs Love for Magnet and Studio One in 1968, and this early roots-era cut is one of those riddims that keeps turning up in different voices and sessions across the late 1960s and 1970s. Slim Smith’s original Everybody Needs Love anchors the set, with Dennis Alcapone’s later version and Two Of A Kind, plus Val Bennett’s 1, 000, 000 Tons Of TNT and The Aggrovators and The Revolutionaries’ The Dark Destroyer showing how far the pattern travelled. The combination of vocal rocksteady sweetness, DJ versions, and heavyweight later-band reworks gives it that classic Studio One/Bunny Lee feel that links the label’s deep catalog with one of the era’s most reusable backing tracks.