Freddie McGregor - FM
High Times LP 1992 recorded 197x-8x and produced by Earl Chinna Smith & Freddie McGregor.
Backed by The Soul Syndicate and recorded at Channel One.
This is a crucial addition to the roots output of the first Freddie Mcgregor; the genuine roots man. Not the established comfortable dancehall superstar which he became later in the 80's.
You'll be surprised by hearing these roots productions. Most interesting track on this album might be a reworking of Revolutionist, the superb last track on the Bobby Bobylon album. Here the reworking is more polished and otherwise arranged, yet it's still a fantastico roots rocker. Same thing with the cover of John Holts' Strange Things. And there is also the beautiful bitter sweet Natural Collie. In total I count 6 top tracks out of 8. A good score. Freddie's FM rules!
Strange Things
Natural Collie
Sergeant Brown
Leave Yah
Revolutionist
Mark Of The Beast
Mission Impossible
Freddie McGregor - Love At First Sight (1982)
Sweet feel-good reggae ideal for your back-yard
summer party!
First Sight Loving
Tease My Love
Beautiful Music
Work Man Song
Love Jah So
Sweet Sweet Love
Death Angels
No Competition
Run Satan Out
Producers : Freddie McGregor & Joe Gibbs & Errol Thompson
Freddie McGregor - Little Freddie
" ...I was seven years old. It was in 1963, in Studio One. I lived in the countryside, in Clarendon. Two friends, Ernest Wilson and Pete Austin, who were members of Clarendonians, took me along to Kingston, where I met formidable people: Bob Marley, Alton Ellis, Delroy Wilson, Ken Boothe, John Holt, Jackie Mittoo, Gift Drummond. It was very amusing. I imagined that Studio One was like Motown, with Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, The Supremes, all these formidable people, yuh know? It was thus until I record my first song. The ska left the place to the rocksteady. I remember that Bob Marley piled up three cases so that I can reach the microphone, because I was too small. I lived in the house of Mister Dodd, with his family. Every morning, I went to the studio with him, we opened the studio together, and every evening we closed the studio and we returned to the house. It was this kind of relation. I was a child all the time in the studio. It was inevitable that I learn so much from things while going to Studio One… It was a good studio." (source : www.reggaefrance.com)
After The Laughter
Going Home
Going To A Ball
Children Listen To Wise Words
I Don't Know
I Shall Be Released
Everything Coming Up
How Could You Leave
With Out You In My Life
Little Girl
Little Girl (Pt.2)
Home Ward Version
Starting All Over Again
Rastaman Camp Pt.2
At first one can hear a very young Freddie McGregor in "After The Laughter", soon followed by tunes he recorded being a youthman.
A lot of approx. 1970 Studio One sides here. Like the different cut to Rastaman Camp, different from the well-known Bobby Bobylon version. I knew some of these beautiful young Freddie tunes from the old Limewire days. How great to have all these early tracks now compiled and for the taking. This 197X compilation was made by JuJu (give thanks!)
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