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Title: If I Had a Pair of Wings: Jamaican Doo Wop Vol. 1-3 / Various
Artist: Various
Label: Death Is Not the End
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5050580767058
Genre: Reggae
Release Date: 2021-10-15
Number of Discs: 2

Death Is Not The End collects together all three volumes of their critically acclaimed If I Had a Pair of Wings LP compilation series for this special double CD edition, with extensive and illuminating notes by David Katz, author of People Funny Boy: The Genius of Lee 'Scratch' Perry and Solid Foundation: An Oral History of Reggae. Katz writes, "The music on this compilation is the result of the forward-thinking artists and producers that realized the worth of local Jamaican artistry during a time when the island's leading political figures had not yet managed to throw off the colonial yolk. These are sounds with a certain innocence and the optimistic promise of better to come, with the influence of American pop ballads and doo-wop looming large, yet already pointing to the innovations of the future. Listen keenly and take in the sounds of the Jamaican music industry at it's very beginnings, it's singers and players drawing from the popular styles of the island's larger neighbor and already changing those styles into something their own.

Tracks:
1.1 Alton ; Eddie - Muriel
1.2 Jiving Juniors - Dearest Darling
1.3 The Echoes ; Celestials - Are You Mine
1.4 Jimmy Cliff - Dearest Beverley
1.5 Keith ; Enid - Send Me
1.6 The Downbeats - Midnight Love
1.7 Chuck ; Dobby - ’Til the End of Time
1.8 The Mellowlarks - Album of Memory
1.9 Horthens ; Stranger - True Love
1.10 Dobby Dobson - Diamonds ; Pearls
1.11 The Charmers - I’m Going Back
1.12 The Blues Busters - Pleading for Mercy
1.13 Owen ; Millie - Do You Know
1.14 Laurel Aitken - Heavenly Angel
1.15 Lloyd Clark Smithie’s Sextet - Now I Know the Reason
1.16 The Charmers ; Prince Buster - Now You Want to Cry
1.17 The Rhythm Aces ; The Caribs - A Thousand Teardrops
1.18 Jiving Juniors - Have Faith in Me
1.19 Chuck ; Dobby - I Love My Teacher
1.20 The Blues Busters - Call Your Name Forever
1.21 The Echoes Celestials - I Love You Forever
1.22 Wilfred Jackie Edwards - Hear My Cry
1.23 Jiving Juniors - Valerie
1.24 The Magic Notes - Why Did You Leave Me
1.25 Rupert Edwards - Guilty Convict
1.26 Keith ; Enid - Worried over You
1.27 The Moonlighters - Julie
1.28 Higgs ; Wilson - How Can I Be Sure
1.29 Jiving Juniors - Sweet as an Angel
1.30 Alton ; Eddie - My Heaven
1.31 Higgs ; Wilson - When You Tell Me Baby
1.32 Lloyd Adams - I Wish Your Picture Was You
1.33 The Moonlighters - Don’t You Know
1.34 Ricketts ; Rowe - Dream Girl
1.35 Annette ; Shenley - The First Time We Met
1.36 Belltones - I’ll Always Call Your Name
1.37 Ruddy ; Sketto - Little Schoolgirl
1.38 Derrick ; Patsy - Crying in the Chapel
1.39 The Blues Busters - I’ve Done You Wrong
1.40 Jiving Juniors - My Sweet Angel
1.41 Higgs ; Wilson - Change of Mind
1.42 Wilfred Jackie Edwards - Never Go Away