Love Won’t Come Easy Riddim – Various Labels

Love Won’t Come Easy produced by Clifton Dillon, A. McKoy, M. McKoy, Niney The Observer, Augustus Pablo, Phillip Burrell, Jah Woosh, George Phang, Brad Osborne, King Jammy, The Youth Promotion Band, Jo Jo Hookim, Coxsone Dodd, Prince Far I, Danny Holloway, U Brown, Jah Lloyd, Jah Mikey, Joe Gibbs, Errol Thompson, Henry Lawes, Ranking Joe, Jah Screw, Hyman Wright, Tad Dawkins, The Heptones, Roy Cousins, Kenneth Hookim, Errol Lewis, Errol Marshall, Phillip Fraser, Lee Scratch Perry, Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare, Gitsy Willis, Major Lazer, Jr. Blender for Shang, Champy, Xterminator, Powerhouse, Clocktower, Jah Guidance, Well Charge, Studio One, Rockers, Volcano, 56 Hope Road, Taxi, Mad Decent in 1967

Love Won’t Come Easy Riddim is a long-running various-labels set that traces back to 1967 and runs from classic rocksteady into later dub and roots updates, with Coxsone Dodd originally credited on the foundation cut and Augustus Pablo, Henry Lawes, Joe Gibbs, Clive Dillon, and others carrying the riddim into later eras. The version list brings in The Heptones, Freddie McGregor, Jacob Miller, Al Campbell, Barrington Levy, and Leroy Sibbles, with standout pulls like The Heptones’ original Love Won’t Come Easy, Augustus Pablo’s Each One Dub and Frozen Dub, and Barrington Levy’s John Tom. What gives the release its identity is the way that same melody keeps resurfacing in different hands, moving from Studio One rocksteady to dub-heavy interpretations and sound-system-ready vocal cuts, while still keeping that warm, bittersweet pulse intact.

Love Won’t Come Easy Riddim Tracklist:

1. [Dub] – Cain Man Dub (1983)
2. [Dub] – Days I Can’t Forget (1983)
3. [Dub] – Ghetto Slum (1979)
4. [Dub] – Glory To God
5. [Dub] – Itege
6. Al Campbell – Freedom Street (1978)
7. Ambelique – One Last Cry (1994)
8. Augustus Pablo – Dub
9. Augustus Pablo – Each One Dub (1975)
10. Augustus Pablo – Frozen Dub (1976)
11. Augustus Pablo – Hot Dub
12. Barrington Levy – John Tom (1982)
13. Beres Hammond & Sugar Minott & Tony Rebel – Where Is That Love
14. Bobby Crystal – Get Close
15. Charlie Chaplin – Foreign Man Skank
16. Cobra & Leroy Sibbles – Come Easy
17. Dillinger – Take It Easy
18. Earl Sixteen – Love Won’t Come Easy
19. Frankie Paul – You Called
20. Frankie Paul – You Too Greedy
21. Half Pint – Days I Can’t Forget (1985)
22. Jacob Miller – Each One Teach One (1975)
23. Jah Lloyd – Greenbay Massacre (Greenbay Incident) (1979)
24. Lee Scratch Perry – Reggae Emperor (1990)
25. Leroy Sibbles – Love Me Girl
26. Leroy Sibbles – Love Won’t Come Easy
27. Leroy Sibbles – Love Won’t Come Easy (1995)
28. Leroy Smart – Hooligan Vagabond
29. Little John – Love Don’t Come Easy
30. Major Christie – Girl You Are My Everything
31. Major Lazer & Chronicle – Blaze Up The Fire (2015)
32. Phillip Fraser – Silver & Gold (1985)
33. Ranking Joe – Hooligan (1980)
34. Ranking Joe – Jump The Fence
35. Ranking Joe – Want Some Money (1981)
36. Sanchez – Boom Bye Bye
37. Sugar Minott – Don’t Burn Your Bridges
38. Sugar Minott – Wheel And Turn
39. Super Black & Musclehead – You Say That You Love Me
40. The Heptones – Love Won’t Come Easy (1967)
41. The Heptones – Love Won’t Come Easy (1976)
42. The Heptones – Love Won’t Come Easy (3) (1983)
43. The Heptones & The Pablo All Stars – Love Won’t Come Easy (1979)
44. The Revolutionaries – Leftist
45. The Soul Vendors – Love Me Girl (1968)
46. The Soul Vendors & Karl Bryan – Frozen Soul
47. Thriller U – Living In This World
48. Tony Tuff – She Is Gone (1982)
49. Toyan – Dread (1984)
50. Triston Palmer – See Dem Deh (1985)
51. Yellowman – The Ark
52. Yellowman – The Ark (1984)