Derrick Morgan - Derrick Morgan In London LP

Description:
From the late fifties, through the sixties and on into the early seventies, only a handful of Jamaican artists and record producers were able to match the level of sustained popularity of the star of this collection. The personification of musical and sartorial cool, Derrick Morgan is, beyond any doubt, one of the most influential and important people to the development of Jamaican music and his groundbreaking work built the foundation for reggae's eventual breakthrough in the mid seventies. But by this time a number of its pivotal pioneers had been condemned to what Leon Trotsky had termed "the dustbin of history" yet, at the height of his fame, the Jamaican government no less were obliged to intervene, not once but twice, in order to ensure Derrick Morgan continued to make music.
Format & package: LP
Record label: Burning Sounds
Year of release: 2018 (reissued from 1969)
Tracks:
A1 Seven Letters
A2 First Taste Of Love
A3 How Can I Forget
A4 Stand By Me
A5 Don't Play That Song
A6 Too Bad
B1 One Morning In May
B2 Come What May
B3 Send Me Some Loving
B4 Make It Tan Deay
B5 Give Me Back
B6 River To The Bank