Too Young To Be My Lover Riddim – Jammy’s, Xterminator

Too Young To Be My Lover produced by King Jammy, Phillip Burrell for Jammy’s, Xterminator in 1987

Too Young To Be My Lover Riddim came out in 1987 on Jammy’s and Xterminator, with King Jammy and Phillip Burrell handling the production. The set brings together Chuck Turner on Run Around Girl, Cocoa Tea on Young Lover, and the Cocoa Tea and Buju Banton combination cut Too Young (18 And Over), alongside Eccleton Jarrett, Leroy Gibbons, and The Cultural Roots. It’s an eight-track selection with seven different artists, and the songs sit around the same lovers-rock theme, leaning into the age-gap warning behind the title. Cocoa Tea’s Young Lover and the later Cocoa Tea and Buju Banton pairing are the best-known entries here, and the project reflects the strong late-’80s Jammy’s approach that helped define that era’s dancehall sound.

Too Young To Be My Lover Riddim Tracklist:

1. Chuck Turner – Run Around Girl (1987)
2. Cocoa Tea – Young Lover (Girls Go Home / Eighteen And Over) (1987)
3. Cocoa Tea & Buju Banton – Too Young (18 And Over) (1993)
4. Cocoa Tea & Buju Banton – Too Young (18 And Over) (1993)
5. Eccleton Jarrett – Turn On The Heat (1987)
6. Leroy Gibbons – Samfie Girl (1987)
7. Ras Shiloh – Praises To Jah (2007)
8. The Cultural Roots – Running Back To Me (1987)

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