Here's another great instrumental, 'Idi Amin' by the Prince Buster All Stars. There was a copy on ebay not that long ago that went for $312 - incredibly, gramme for gramme that's still cheaper than crack. Anyway, it's a dark, jumpy horns instrumental recorded at Channel One with a really good dub on the flip. My favourite part's the piano, but that's just me.
This is massive. Hope you enjoy.
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Well, I have to say that there's nothing remotely Prince Buster-like about that record. In addition it seems to have come out about three years after Buster was last in the studio - from its sound it must have been recorded about 1976-77.
Now....it is known that by then Buster hadn't had a hit for years, and he was on his uppers. It seems likely that some kindly soul who had recorded with him before and felt that he deserved a favour offered him the use of this riddim to see if it would help to get him back on his feet. As the record didn't sell, it looks like it was a one-off.
Of course, by 1979 and the ska revival Buster's finances were in a healthier state.
That's not entirely fair, T_V_o_R. Buster released on of the earliest dub albums and it did sound entirely different from his ska-material. Based on that I think this song is entirely in tune with what he did during the 70's in his career.
None the less ... what a brilliant single.
Joakim - I am wholly familiar with "The Message Dubwise", which was his only full dub LP, although he did release two decent dubs on "Chi Chi Run" and also with his later 45 "Police Trim Rasta" - they fitted very well into the prevailing technology of 1972-3.
However, unless you can point to any records he made in 1974-75, or anything else he recorded in the "rockers" style, I will continue to regard this as a one-off. To my ears it's Ossie Hibbert on organ, with a fairly typical Channel One horns arrangement from the short period when I. Roy did the horn charts (honestly).
Prince Buster recorded in several styles. Simultaneous with his ska records he was happy to cut mento tunes like "Cut Munnu" and "Mek It Tan Deh Goosie". By 1966 he was recording numerous rocksteady tracks before moving into reggae. The track posted here, though, is a long way from the likes of "Intensified Dirt", "Doctor Rodney" "The Sermon of a Preacher Man" or the genuinely odd obeah record "Shepherd Beng", recorded with Teddy King on a cut of "Gypsy Woman". I am, though, happy to be corrected....
Well, I certainly don't have the historic knowledge of the other posters; nevertheless I wanted to mention this 45 is now on the top of my ipod playlist... F---ing brilliant!
I had picked up this one too at his shop in like 1990, there was four or five boxes of it there. It always seemed like it was a track that did not make it on to the Man From Wareika LP. Great tune.
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