Love (Twinkle Brothers)

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Love - Twinkle Brothers

  1. Love - Twinkle Brothers
    1. Description
    2. Track listing and info
      1. Virgin Frontline, 1978, FCL 5001
      2. Twinkle Records, 1978, DSR 7723 & 1988, NG 512
      3. Virgin Records, 1979, FLX 4003
    3. Musical Credits

Description

By 1977 the Twinkle Brothers had released two albums and Norman Grant was recording material for a new album. He had recorded five tracks when he heard that Virgin Frontline was searching for new reggae artists to release albums by.

 

»I came to London on a holiday and I had these tracks and somebody told me that Virgin was signing up. They were looking for artists. So I went there with four or five tracks. And I played them and they say ›do you have anything more?‹ And I had ›I Love you So‹ which I didn't play at first. And they said ›Yeah, We Love that one!‹«

(from an interview with Norman Grant done by Joakim Kalcidis the 26th of July, 2006.)

 

These five tracks plus a deejay version by Sir Lee formed the first version of the album, pressed on somethings as peculiar as a 10" vinyl. Later the same year Norman Grant released a 12" version of the album on his own Twinkle label omitting the »South Africa« track and instead adding a couple of others. The following year (1979) Virgin Records released yet another version of the album adding dubs to some of the tracks on the original 10" release. In 1988 the album was released again on the Twinkle label with the only difference from the earlier Twinkle-release being minor changes to the graphics.

 

Love was the first of three albums that the Twinkle Brothers released for Virgin Records, the other two being Praise Jah and Countrymen in 1979 and respectively 1980.

 

Track listing and info

There are primarily four different versions of this album. Two of them share the same track listing but the other versions have different track listings which means that there are three different versions of this album out there.

 

One of the extended album version also shares a few tracks (although different mixes) with the album »Praise Jah«

 

Virgin Frontline, 1978, FCL 5001

This album was the first issue and released on 10" vinyl. The record sleeve has a press photo of the group on each side.

#TrackComments
A1Free Africa
A2Solid As The Rock
A3Watch The Hypocrites
B1Love
B2I Love You So
B3South Africa (Sir Lee)Deejay version.

 

Twinkle Records, 1978, DSR 7723 & 1988, NG 512

#TrackComments
A1Free Africa
A2Solid As The Rock
A3Watch The Hypocrites
A4Jahovah
A5Keep On Trying
B1Love
B2I Love You So
B3Distant Drums
B4In This Time
B5Dread In The Ghetto

 

Virgin Records, 1979, FLX 4003

#TrackComments
A1Free Africa
A2Solid As The Rock
A3Solid As The Rock (Dub)
A4Watch The Hypocrites
A5Watch The Hypocrites(Dub)
B1Love
B2Love(Dub)
B3I Love You So
B4I Love You So(Dub)
B5South Africa (Sir Lee)Deejay version.

 

Musical Credits

(information from the 10" release)

The Twinkle Brothers

Norman Grant: Lead Vocal & Drums

Ralston Grant: Guitar

Derrick Brown: Bass

Karl Hyatt: Eric Bernard: Piano

Bongo Asher: Percussions

 

The Revolutionaries on

›Africa‹, ›Solid As The Rock‹ & ›Watch The Hypocrites‹.

Sly: Drums

Ranchie: Bass

Ansell Collins: Keyboards

Tommy McCook & Bobby Ellis: Horns

 

Recorded and Mixed at Channel 1 Recording Studio

Engineer: Maxie

Produced by Norman Grant

Design: Millar Ziadie

Photography Denis Morris

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