1963
SPIT IN THE SKY * DELROY WILSON * BLACK SWAN 405 * UK
One of a brace of infamous 'grudge' records sung by Coxsone Dodd's fourteen year old prodigy Delroy Wilson (who's voice hadn't yet broken) it is a reply to Prince Buster's King, Duke & The Sir, this one, alleged to have been composed by Clement Dodd himself.
Spit in the sky and it will fall in your eye, is an old cautionary proverb that, in Jamaica during the early part of the twentieth century, would have run: "If you 'pit a de sky it wi' fall a you face" the natural corollary to which was: "One 'pit dun better dan one up".
Released on Coxsone's premier label N. D. Records in Jamaica this was Delroy Wilson's second ever recording, a follow up to his debut If I Had a Beautiful Baby.
Also released on Blue Beat 172 (see below) where it was credited to Joe Liges (I guess Liges is meant to read as 'lies' as in: not his real name!). I'm not sure which was the first release, if the Black Swan has the correct credits then it's probably the Blue Beat, but I am still not certain.
SPIT IN THE SKY * DELROY WILSON * BLUE BEAT 172 * UK
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