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Errol Dunkley

Errol Dunkley

Errol Dunkley has been played on NTS over 30 times, featured on 29 episodes and was first played on 12 August 2014.

Errol Dunkley is a Jamaican reggae singer, born in Kingston in 1951. Dunkley's recording career began in 1965, when he was fourteen, with "Gypsy" (a duet with Roy Shirley) for Lindel Pottinger's Gaydisc label, "My Queen" (with Junior English) for Prince Buster, and "Love Me Forever" on the Rio label [1]. Between 1967 and 1968 he recorded several singles for Joe Gibbs including "Please Stop Your Lying" (1967) and "Love Brother" (1968), before switching to Coxsone Dodd in 1969.[2]

In the early 1970s, together with Gregory Isaacs he formed the African Museum record label, although Isaacs soon took sole control of the label, while Dunkley formed a new label, Silver Ring. In 1972 he teamed up with producer Jimmy Radway for two of his most popular singles, "Keep The Pressure On" and "Black Cinderella". The same year saw the release of Dunkley's Sonia Pottinger produced debut album, Presenting Errol Dunkley, which included the track "A Little Way Different".

Dunkley continued to record throughout the 1970s and towards the end of the decade his popularity in the UK grew, resulting in a breakthrough UK Singles Chart hit in 1979 with "OK Fred", a cover version of a John Holt-penned song, that reached number 11[3]. He also avoided the one-hit wonder tag, by securing a minor chart placing with the 1980 follow-up release "Sit Down And Cry".

Dunkley's biggest hit, "OK Fred", was re-recorded in 1996 with Queen Sister N.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errol_Dunkley

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Errol Dunkley

Errol Dunkley has been played on NTS over 30 times, featured on 29 episodes and was first played on 12 August 2014.

Errol Dunkley is a Jamaican reggae singer, born in Kingston in 1951. Dunkley's recording career began in 1965, when he was fourteen, with "Gypsy" (a duet with Roy Shirley) for Lindel Pottinger's Gaydisc label, "My Queen" (with Junior English) for Prince Buster, and "Love Me Forever" on the Rio label [1]. Between 1967 and 1968 he recorded several singles for Joe Gibbs including "Please Stop Your Lying" (1967) and "Love Brother" (1968), before switching to Coxsone Dodd in 1969.[2]

In the early 1970s, together with Gregory Isaacs he formed the African Museum record label, although Isaacs soon took sole control of the label, while Dunkley formed a new label, Silver Ring. In 1972 he teamed up with producer Jimmy Radway for two of his most popular singles, "Keep The Pressure On" and "Black Cinderella". The same year saw the release of Dunkley's Sonia Pottinger produced debut album, Presenting Errol Dunkley, which included the track "A Little Way Different".

Dunkley continued to record throughout the 1970s and towards the end of the decade his popularity in the UK grew, resulting in a breakthrough UK Singles Chart hit in 1979 with "OK Fred", a cover version of a John Holt-penned song, that reached number 11[3]. He also avoided the one-hit wonder tag, by securing a minor chart placing with the 1980 follow-up release "Sit Down And Cry".

Dunkley's biggest hit, "OK Fred", was re-recorded in 1996 with Queen Sister N.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errol_Dunkley

Original source: Last.fm

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A Little Way Different
Errol Dunkley
Arawak0
Down Below
Errol Dunkley
Opportunity Records0
Black Cinderella
Errol Dunkley
Fe-Me-Time1972
Holding On
Errol Dunkley, Ranking Dread
Burning Sounds0
Three In One
Errol Dunkley
Big1971
Keep The Pressure Down
Errol Dunkley
Fe-Me-Time0
Why Birds Follow Spring
Errol Dunkley
Wimpex1973
Get Up Now
Errol Dunkley
Coxson0
Love Brother - Love Sister
Errol Dunkley, Gibson's All Star
Amalgamated Records1968
Differentah
Errol Dunkley feat. Dreadfull Julio
Arawak0

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