This was part of a bulk purchase from a Brooklyn, NY record shop that went out of business in the ’80s, which featured a cool collection of soul and reggae 45 singles that I’ve been selling on eBay in recent years. This particular title is unsellable, but I’m really curious as to its provenance as a former record shop person! Sound quality is just OK and the singer sounds like a very young LeRoy Smart, not the wonderful voice you’ll hear on YouTube or Spotify or the streamer of your choice. Shazam worked really hard (coughed & sputtered) to identified the singer & title, in fact I was surprised at the legitimate result, thus spiking my curiosity. Typical rough edges for Jamaican pressings of that era with absolutely no identification front or back, on any of the 50 examples that were included in the sale. Among the 3,000 plus 45s I picked up and frankly forgot about while in storage, this was the most bizarre title, if you can call it that since it does not have a printed title. Believe me I know about bootleg records and knew many bootleggers back in the day, although I avoided record counterfeiters (there’s a difference) like the plague. Please help me figure out who pressed this record and why? How was it marketed and was this a typical ploy to get around licensing issues!?
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