Take Five Riddim – Dynamite, Greensleeves, Wackie’s

Take Five produced by Keith Gorgon, Stephen King, Sugar Minott, The Youth Promotion Band, Beswick Phillips, Clive Jarrett, Bunny Striker Lee, Lloyd Barnes, Peter Chemist for Dynamite, Greensleeves, Wackie’s in 1983

Keith Gorgon, Stephen King, Sugar Minott, the Youth Promotion Band, Beswick Phillips, Clive Jarrett, Bunny Striker Lee, Lloyd Barnes and Peter Chemist are all tied to Take Five Riddim, issued in 1983 for Dynamite, Greensleeves and Wackie’s. The set brings together Al Campbell’s Bad Boy, Barry Brown’s Shoot Up, Cornell Campbell’s Part Time Loving, Don Carlos’s Mr Big Man and Sugar Minott’s Have You Ever Found A Love, with Max Romeo’s Birth Of Reggae Music and Welton Irie’s Put It Down also giving the rhythm extra pull. Coming out of the early-’80s dancehall moment, it has that spare, tough-cut sound associated with the era’s studio and sound-system crossovers, while Sugar Minott’s role fits neatly with his Youth Promotion work and his long run as a singer-producer shaping the period’s style.

Take Five Riddim Tracklist:

1. Al Campbell – Bad Boy (1983)
2. Barry Brown – Shoot Up
3. Clarence Parks – Gun Man (1983)
4. Cornell Campbell – Part Time Loving (1983)
5. Don Carlos – Mr Big Man
6. Jah Batta – Tricky Girl (1983)
7. Jezzreel – Youth Man (1983)
8. Little John – Work To Do
9. Max Romeo – Birth Of Reggae Music (1983)
10. Simple Simon – Revolution Fighters
11. Sugar Minott – Have You Ever Found A Love (1985)
12. Welton Irie – Put It Down (1983)
13. Willi Williams – Jah Righteuous Reign

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