No# No# No produced by Jah Thomas, Coxsone Dodd, King Jammy, Michael Chin, Prince Far I, Augustus Clarke, Alvin Ranglin, Joe Gibbs, Errol Thompson, Steely, Clevie, Dwayne Chin-Quee for Midnight Rock, Studio One, Def Jam in 1967
No No No Release Details
- Riddim year: 1967
- Total tracks: 29
- Unique artists on riddim: 22
- Key artists on this riddim: Bounty Killer, Dennis Brown, Ken Boothe, Vybz Kartel
- Browse this riddim in year & database lists: 1960s-80s Riddims Archive
Jah Thomas, Coxsone Dodd and the Midnight Rock/Studio One camp are tied to this No No No riddim set, with a release date that points back to 1967 and a selection that reaches from rocksteady into later dancehall and dub. Dawn Penn’s No, No, No anchors the lineup, while Big Youth’s Concrete Jungle and Bounty Killer’s You’ve Got Me Waiting show how the same pattern kept resurfacing across different eras. The set also folds in dub cuts like Behind Iron Bars and Hello, Love Brother, which gives it a darker, more stripped-back feel. As a piece of catalog history, it sits right at the crossroads of Studio One roots, later Midnight Rock work, and the long life of a tune that stayed recognizable well beyond its original moment.
No No No Tracklist:
- [Dub] – Behind Iron Bars (1979)
- [Dub] – Hello, Love Brother
- [Dub] – No No No (1974)
- Barry Brown – Movements Of Jah (extended)
- Big Youth – Concrete Jungle (1974)
- Big Youth – Screaming Target (1974)
- Big Youth – Screaming Target (Version 2) (1974)
- Bounty Killer – You’ve Got Me Waiting (1997)
- Dawn Penn – No, No, No (1967)
- Dawn Penn – You Don’t Love Me (1992)
- Dawn Penn – You Don’t Love Me (1994)
- Dawn Penn – You Don’t Love Me (Remix) (1994)
- Dawn Penn & Ken Boothe & Dennis Brown & Bounty Killer – No No No (World A Respect ’94 Mix) (1994)
- Dub Specialist – Jucks’s Incorporation
- Flabba Holt & Prince Far I – Yes, Yes, Yes (1975)
- I-Roy – Magnificent Seven
- Jackie Mittoo – Ghetto Organ (1972)
- Jah Thomas – Jah Jah Guidance
- Jah Thomas & Sister Jackie – Cockee And Pussy
- C. White – No No No (1974)
- Ken Boothe – No No No
- Prince Far I – Don’t Deal With Folly (1979)
- Prince Far I – Shadow
- Prince Jazzbo – Fool For Love
- Rihanna & Vybz Kartel – You Don’t Love Me (No No No) (2005)
- Tonto Irie – Experience
- Tony Tuff – War
- Toyan – Praise Him (1983)
- Triston Palmer – For Health And Strength
