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ETHIOPIANS - ENGINE 54

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Beep, beep...

Engine 54
Engine 54
Engine 54
Engine 54

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Beep, beep...

Leaving from Kingston
Leaving from Kingston to Spanish Town
Bog Walk, Montego Bay
To Bog Walk, Montego Bay

I said these people on the countryside
Used to rely on Engine 54
It's Engine Engine 54

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Beep, beep...

Leaving from Portland back to Kingston
From Portland back to Kingston
This Engine Engine 54
Engine Engine 54
It's Engine Engine 54
It's Engine Engine 54
Engine Engine 54
Engine Engine 54
Engine Engine 54
Engine Engine 54
Engine Engine 54

Their debut album, far more rocksteady than ska, recorded with Tommy McCook and the Supersonics. It's excellent, consistent stuff from the prime of rock steady, with seductively cooing harmonies and falsettos; few if any other acts brought '60s soul and Jamaican rhythms together with such entrancing results. The CD reissue adds a Lee Perry production ("Love and Respect") and an updated version of "Train to Ska-Ville."

Lovely album, the pressing of it that I have however is shocking quality.