ID: Piano piece to J. Clarke "Never Never"

[The Favorite]

anyone know this?

just heard a recording of both sides, and in my head i had this 100% as a Bunny Lee production as it's a good example of flyers.. sounds like it's in the back end of that period maybe. but RKR has this as a Vivian Jackson production, on the Hot City label and also G Clef out of Canada. i don't know if both pressings have the piano piece or not.

to make things worse, i only have one tune on Hot City, but it's mislabeled.. was supposed to be a Vivian Jackson b/w Tubbys piece but is Horace Andy... but from a similar period. so are both these coincidentally off or are Striker and Yabby You known to have worked with the same riddim tracks often?

and also can anyone ID the piano piece on the flip of the Johnny Clarke tune?


thanks!



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[bmd]

All matches up with what I have So nice, I have the G-Clef release, it has the piano version on the B, and I know P.Reel has the Hot City, I don't think from the sound of it, that it is a Bunny Lee prod.
That piano version is AWFUL in my opinion.. i have the producer details for the Canadian release as - Joe Richards \ Bunny Lee, but I'm pretty sure Joe Richards is just the name behind the Canadian end of the deal, nothing to do with the music's production.

To my knowledge there is only one link Between Bunny , Yabby and Clarke and that is a re-release of It's True by Clarke on the Vivian Jackson label,, though even that link is made more tenuous by the fact that this was produced by Robbie Shakespeare through his connection as member of the Agrovators house band and connection with Lee and Clarke therfore.

I have this really odd feeling that the version is a Shirley Bassey song turned instrumental, though... maybe that's the A-Side song credit, I need to go find it for a look don't I....

[bmd]

Yep it says that it's a Shirley Bassey tune, so perhaps the B side is a instrumental version of her original vocal line or something?

[The Favorite]

nice one, thanks mikey!

well as i was listening to the piano and vocal piece, it occured to me (both times) that through most of my reggae addiction i would not have liked either tune. but for some reason, hearing them now, i love them both.

i'll listen again but really had it as a Striker sound.. thinking again though i have his production of Jackie Edwards doing this tune on a Justice 12"..

and of course Bunny would not replicate something..



i would like to know who the pianist is though



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[bmd]

yes so would I, I can't tell,..

Thing is so nice and it's only a gut feeling guess, though I feel I have an understanding (particularly of Lee's prods and Clarke during this era), that the A side IS Bunny Lee produced... but the B side isn't.. I don't know why I feel that, or rather felt it, last time I listened to the A and B sides next to each other, but that's how I felt.

I have three records for it on the Clarke website, and only one mentions Yabby as a producer, but I can't imagine that his name would just be thrown on there for no good reason.. perhaps it was recorded by Yabby U after all, A&B sides, but regardless there's an odd feel about the sound and piano on it. You never know, as there are two Canadian releases and one US release for this title and no Jamaican release (as far as I currently know) it may be a overdub of the piano on a Agrovators recorded version, by someone in Canada, it'd be nice if it married up with Mittoo in Canada somehow, but frankly you'd not make that one stick, the playing is pretty shite..

p.s. Still enjoying those tunes you sent ;-)