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01. JOHNNY CLARKE - Riding For A Fall
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02. JOHNNY CLARKE - Midnight Cowboy
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03. JOHNNY CLARKE - It's A Disgrace
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04. JOHNNY CLARKE - Satisfaction
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05. JOHNNY CLARKE - I Love You Madly
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06. JOHNNY CLARKE - Play Fool, Get Wise
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07. JOHNNY CLARKE - This Heart Of Mine
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08. JOHNNY CLARKE - I Can't Explain
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09. JOHNNY CLARKE - Easy Skanking
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10. JOHNNY CLARKE - Why Did You Leave
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ARTIST
CLARKE, JOHNNY
TITLE
Satisfaction
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
RADIATION ROOTS
CATALOG #
RR 308CD
RR 308CD
GENRE
WORLD
RELEASE DATE
4/21/2017
Radiation Roots present a reissue of
Johnny Clarke
's
Satisfaction
, originally released in 1979. Tenor singer Johnny Clarke had many false starts in his youthful days. Hanging around Studio One as a schoolboy with
Jacob Miller
, Clarke was supposed to record material written for him by
Bob Andy
, but somehow never made the grade. His 1973 debut recording for lesser-known producer
Glen Stair
was not released, and early work for
Clancy Eccles
failed to hit, though "Everyday Wondering" for
Rupie Edwards
made an underground impact in Britain and New York. Subsequent singles for
Keith Hudson
and
Glen Brown
also did not get very far, but the breakthrough finally came when
Bunny Lee
asked him to sing "None Shall Escape The Judgement", which was written by the singer
Earl Zero
; it became a massive hit that launched the "flying cymbal" craze (based on an open-and-closed high-hat cymbal pattern, adapted from the
Soul Train
theme), and Clarke became one of Lee's most reliable hit-makers, partly because Lee stoked a rivalry between him and
Cornell Campbell
, whom Lee had previously asked to voice "None Shall Escape". Clarke's
Satisfaction
LP was recorded at
Harry J
's studio for Lee, voiced at
King Tubby
's studio, and issued by Third World in 1979. It is a set largely comprised of cover tunes, such as the strong opening update of the
Paragons
' "Riding For A Fall", the title track adapting their rock steady hit "My Satisfaction" in a post-rockers style. Better still is the hard-hitting "reality" tune, "Play Fool, Get Wise", which uses a proverb to relate a means of avoiding trouble on the dog-eat-dog mean streets of Kingston.
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