Super Star Hit Parade Vol 4 – Live And Love

Live And Love’s 1988 Super Star Hit Parade Vol. 4 sits right in the King Jammy “China Town” era, and this one-way set keeps the focus on the same riddim with a proper parade of voices over it. Josey Wales’ “Grooving” and Gregory Isaacs’ “Let’s Give It A Try” are the cuts that tend to pull the ear first, while Dean Fraser’s instrumental “Dean In China Town” gives the sequence a sharp, sax-led breather before the singers come back in. Admiral Bailey, Brian and Tony Gold, Chicken Chest, Lecturer, Michael Buckley and Trevor Sparks all get a turn, so the record moves like a tidy late-’80s showcase rather than a loose compilation. It was issued as LP LALP26 in the UK in 1988.