c1959

WERE GONNA LOVE * WILFRED EDWARDS * UNKNOWN * JA

Wilfred Edwards belonged to the birth of Jamaican popular music as we know it, he took the bluesy style of the late forties and early fifties American ballad and group singers and molded it into the distinctly Jamaican proto soul singing of the early sixties, a thread that was to continue down to the present. In the late 1950s he was one of the big names in popular music on the Island, and was snapped up by impresario Chris Blackwell who took him to England and tried to mould him into something acceptable to the, then, tastes of a white record buying public, which unfortunately for us, and Wilfred, soon to become, Jackie Edwards, was a bit of a failure. The above, which I think was on the Jamaican R&B label was pressed up on colored vinyl, as were many discs around that time. See below.

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