1970
IF YOU CAN'T BEAT THEM * RUPIE EDWARDS * SUCCESS 905 * UK
Producer and singer Rupie Edwards on this B side, offering up an old cliché that was most probably first opined by a member of the haves to a newly arrived member of the have nots who feigning a previous critical position was looking for a way out of his troublesome concious, when in fact our little social climber had never tried to 'beat them' at all but always wanted to be one of them! - not to dissimilar to the advocates of the new left in their position to the old ruling classes. The Success label was Rupie Edwards outlet in the UK released by the Pama company, the label name matched his Jamaican imprint of the same name; there were only fourteen releases on this label in the UK, although Rupie Edwards had his recordings and productions out on other UK labels like Big.