Unexpected Reggae Covers
So I'll get back to playing some full shows soon, but there's a few more subjects that I've felt for a while deserved a post of their own. This post is a couple of unexpected reggae covers that I really loved. I say unexpected covers, because the songs covered aren't ones that you would typically expect.
First up - Price Blackman's cover of 'Rapper's Delight', here titled 'Rocker's Delight', in which he lets us know that a good man is a rasta man, and not to trample his collie field...! The Prince was also from Toronto, which is cool, and the record came out on 12" on the Solar Sounds label (no date, but probably early 80s). What's funny is that this isn't the only, nor the most famous, Jamaican cover of Rapper's Delight! That honour goes to another group by the name of Xanadu and Sweet Lady.
Price Blackman - Rocker's Delight
Next is an amazing track - Derrick Laro and Trinity and their reggae cover of Michael Jackson's 'Don't Stop Till You Get Enough'. Now, DSTYGE is a pretty unstoppable song in it's own right, and playing this reggae version always turns heads (when they realize what it is). It came out on a Joe Gibbs 12" (the flip is 'And Even Then Keep Going') in 1980. Check the toasting at the end! Genious. I love this tune.
Derrick Laro and Trinity - Don't Stop Till You Get Enough
When I get around to it, I'll also post up the Hindi (!) version of DSTYGE, by Usha Uthup... next time.
