“I’m sure I’ve got that somewhere”

[Return of Jesco]

I was listening to the Soul Jazz Studio One Dancehall CD and was sure I had the Johnny Osbourne “Lend Me the Sixteen” somewhere but failed to find it after searching through my Studio One singles three times. Eventually I thought it must be on a record labelled as something else, dug out a few that I couldn’t remember too well, and there on the b-side of “Rocking Steady” by Bob Marley and the Wailers, labelled as “Rocking Steady Part 2” by Bob Marley and the Wailers and the S.O. Group, was a dub version of “Lend Me the Sixteen” with some of the vocal. I hadn’t played it for about 10 years as “Rocking Steady” is a pretty ropy remix with overdubbed synth. Just another warning that reggae collecting can be dangerous for your mental health… Anybody else got the single?

[sean]

Yes. So many tunes go under so many names.I found an I Roy classic, Jah come herre, on a Dennis Brown, I Roy, Observer, Heptones 4 cd set. Great tune, it turns up later under a different title, on a red covered box 2cd set called Dub..which incidentally contains none dub tracks such as No Speech no Language by Gregory Isaacs.