SO MANY RECORDS, SO LITTLE TIME » Dwight Pinkney http://www.somanyrecordssolittletime.com THIS BLOG IS ABOUT 7" RECORDS ONLY. YOU CAN NEVER HAVE TOO MANY. EVERY SONG IS CONVERTED TO MP3 FROM MY PERSONAL 45 COLLECTION, AND THERE'S NOT ONE THAT I WOULDN'T RECOMMEND YOU SEEKING OUT. ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDERS WHO DON'T WANT THEIR MUSIC HEARD HERE JUST LET ME KNOW, AND DOWN IT WILL COME. CLICK ON ANY IMAGE TO ENLARGE. Sat, 09 Nov 2024 21:32:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Zap-Pow http://www.somanyrecordssolittletime.com/?p=14006 http://www.somanyrecordssolittletime.com/?p=14006#comments Sun, 22 Apr 2012 04:01:43 +0000 SO MANY RECORDS, SO LITTLE TIME http://www.somanyrecordssolittletime.com/?p=14006

Listen: This Is Reggae Music / Zap-Pow
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Recorded and originally released in ’73, don’t be surprised if you think ‘This Is Reggae Music’ is blatantly influenced by HELL UP IN HARLEM Blaxploitation soundtrack production. There was a lot of it about. Harry Johnson and Chris Blackwell must have been knee deep in the stuff at the time.

By then, as a result of ‘Shaft’, the worldwide hit single for Isaac Hayes from the film of the same name, the style pretty much became a mainstay at RnB, or Black radio as it was referred to, finding it’s way into everything including reggae apparently.

Lead singer Dwight Pinkney sure does have a voice that later should have been confused for Steve Perry’s from Journey. In fact, that band could have easily pulled off a version of ‘This Is Reggae Music’ had they known and felt a fondness for the genre, which I’m betting the bank they did not.

The other guys in Zap-Pow played on many of Lee Perry’s Black Ark sessions.

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