Sunday 14 June 2015

Freddie McKay “Picture on the Wall” a perennial rocksteady favourite, Coxsone, Jamaica, 1971

Perennial favourite early reggae rocksteady classic from Freddie McKay "Picture on the Wall” on the Coxsone Label, Jamaica 1971.

LISTEN♫ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iko6AS3ZChs

Rocksteady singer Freddie McKay worked with Jamaica's top reggae producers Duke Reid, Coxsone Dodd, and Prince Buster. Born in the late '40s in St. Catherine, Freddie McKay recorded for the Studio One and Treasure Isle labels, working with studio bands the Revolutionaires, the G.G. Allstars, and the Soul Defenders, with whom McKay cut "Picture on the Wall" (his biggest hit), which remains a perennial favourite on ska and rocksteady compilations decades later.

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