Name: Fire and Rain - Expanded Edition
Brand: The Gaylads

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

DBCD036

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Colour

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2019-06-14

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cherry Red (ADA)

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

5013929273634

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Total Cap

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

The Gaylads

Genre GB

Reggae / Dub

Label GB

Doctor Bird

Doctor Bird is a music label that was founded in the UK by Graeme Goodall, an Australian sound engineer and original shareholder of Island Records. The label was revived by Trojan Records in 1970 for three releases before being relaunched in 2017 as a division of Cherry Red Records. Doctor Bird specializes in vintage Jamaican sounds licensed from the catalogue of Trojan Records.
Graeme Goodall played a significant role in the Jamaican music scene, engineering sessions at various studios and producing countless recordings during the ska era. He also formed other labels such as Pyramid Records and Attack to promote reggae music. Despite relocating to Atlanta, Georgia in the 1970s, Goodall continued his involvement with music until his passing in 2014.
Today, Doctor Bird continues to bring Jamaican rocksteady and other vintage sounds to music enthusiasts worldwide through their curated selection of releases. With its rich history and dedication to preserving iconic Jamaican music, Doctor Bird remains a respected authority on this genre.

Leslie Kong’s Beverley’s Records dominated the Jamaican music scene throughout the years that immediately followed the arrival of reggae music in the late Sixties. During this hugely exciting period, Kong’s artists roster included many of the island’s finest talents, notably the Maytals, the Pioneers, Desmond Dekker, Jimmy Cliff, Bob Marley and the Wailers, the Melodians and, of course, the Gaylads. The latter having been regular Jamaican hit-makers ever since Harris ‘BB’ Seaton, Winston Delano Stewart and Maurice Roberts first collaborated in 1963.

The trio’s tenure with Kong’s Beverley’s Records commenced in the summer of ‘69, after which they setabout producing a slew of high quality recordings, with significant sellers from the period including suchenduring works as There’s A Fire, Tell The Children The Truth, Soul Sister and a version of James Taylor’s Fire And Rain that proved so popular it provided the title for the group’s ridiculously collectable album fromthe close of 1970.

Now, almost half a century since its original release, the Fire And Rain LP is finally made available once more,with the original track-listing bolstered by the remainder of the Gaylads’ recordings for Leslie Kong, including numerous Jamaican hits and such rarities as ABC Reggae and Baby I’ll Be Yours, both of which make their CD debut.

Fire and Rain - Expanded Edition

Music GB