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Thursday 2 December 2010

No Pop, No Style


What could be less appropriate for this week's weather than a blast of summer from Jamaica? Althea and Donna were 17 and 18 respectively when legendary producer Joe Gibbs took the rhythm from Alton Ellis's I'm Still In Love and got them to sing over the top. Less than a year later, in 1978, this went to number one in the UK singles charts. Strictly roots, as the girls remind us repeatedly, strictly roots.

Uptown_Top_Ranking.mp3

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