1963

HAVE YOU SEEN MY BABY * ROY & PAULETTE * ISLAND 067 * UK

Great swaying and rolling sound of the Jamaican shuffle beat, very much the precursor to Ska. Produced by Coxsone  Dodd and issued on C&N records in Jamaica, this, and the next side, is the only duet by Harmonica player and vocalist Roy Richards and Paulette March to be issued in the UK. The record was popular enough to be pressed up enough to span two label designs; see below. Roy Richards, blind from birth, was born in 1941 and died in May 2007


 


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