Dennis Brown: Let Me Love You, The Joe Gibbs 7″ Singles Collection 1977 to 1981
Dennis Brown

• Includes many of the biggest reggae hits of the era.
• Eleven tracks new to CD.
• One of Jamaican’s most popular and influential artists.

By the late 1970s, Dennis Emmanuel Brown was widely acknowledged as the Crown Prince Of Reggae, having scored more Jamaican hits in the decade than any of his contemporaries – including Bob Marley And The Wailers.

Following a hugely successful spell with famed producer Niney, he reunited with serial hitmaker Joe Gibbs, for whom he had previously recorded earlier in the decade, with their renewed union immediately subsequently spawning a succession of major Jamaican hits.

Among these were such reggae classics as ‘Ghetto Girl’, ‘Equal Rights’, ‘Ain’t That Loving You’, ‘How Can I Leave You’, ‘Man Next Door’ (as famously covered by The Slits), and a memorable reworking of, ‘Money In My Pocket’, which six years after his original 1972 version provided the singer with his international breakthrough, with the single peaking at 14 in the UK charts in the Spring of 79.

This 2CD collection brings together both sides of all of Brown’s Joe Gibbs-produced 7” singles released between 1977 to 1981, which include the aforementioned hits, his remaining reggae chartbusters and an array of dub and DJ versions, eleven of which make their CD debut.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE

1 Rolling Down
2 Rain *
3 Ghetto Girl
4 Ghetto Version *
5 I Hope We Get To Love In Time
6 Timely Lover *
7 Ain’t That Loving You
8 Hole In The Bucket
9 Equal Rights
10 Equal Rights Style
11 Man Next Door
12 Get Away *
13 Money In My Pocket
14 Cool Runnings
15 A True
16 Nu True *
17 How Can I Leave You
18 Bubbling Love
19 Should I
20 Cassandra
21 So Jah Say
22 So Jah Say (live)

DISC TWO

1 Your Man
2 Assigned To Love
3 Created By The Father
4 Created Dub *
5 Say What You’re Saying
6 Honey Money *
7 I’m Coming Home
8 Homeward Bound *
9 Let Me Love You
10 All Night Love *
11 Girl I’ve Got A Date
12 Blind Date
13 Open Up
14 Due Season *
15 A Little Bit More
16 Love Dub *
17 Foul Play
18 The World Is Troubled
19 On The Rocks
20 Get High On Your Love