The Tamlins & Trinity & Revolutionaries - Germain Records / D Roy Records 1978 / 1979 скачать в хорошем качестве

The Tamlins & Trinity & Revolutionaries - Germain Records / D Roy Records 1978 / 1979

Valentines day, so I have uploaded two of my favourite records by The Tamlins. The first 12” single “You’ll Never Know” / “Undying Love” was released on Germain Revolutionary Sounds in 1978 and features Trinity, and with The Revolutionaries (I think) as the studio band. The second 12” single “Stars” / “This Good” was released originally on Taxi Records in Jamaica, but I have the UK pressed D Roy Records version. These songs certainly feature The Revolutionaries, as Sly And Robbie WERE Taxi Records, and it’s written on the record label!!! The B-side of this record is just literally chatter presumably between the kindly folk present in the studio on the day. Weird, but it works fine on record! Some sadder news on this day, finding out although not a vocal performer on these two 12” singles from the latter 1970’s, this post is dedicated to Derrick Lara, a member The Tamlins from 1983, who has died aged 61 on the 13th February at his daughter’s residence in Miami, Florida. Carlton Smith, a member of the Tamlins, told The Gleaner that the singer had been experiencing bouts of illness for more than a year due to cancer. Thoughts go out to his family and friends. The text below has been lifted from the Reggaeville blog, thank you to those people in advance. Versatility – the one word which most adequately describes The Tamlins. Surely one of (if not the best) harmonizing trio to emerge from Jamaica. Their sparkling reputation is based on their solid record of noteworthy achievements and a string of golden hits, like “Baltimore,” “Ting-A-Ling,” “My Whole World Is Falling Down,” “Reasons,” and “Go Away Dream,” to name a few. The Tamlins — Carlton Smith, Junior Moore and Winston Morgan started out as a nightclub act in 1970 and by 1972 had won the “Most Outstanding Group” award in Jamaica. Although they recorded songs for producers Ed Wallace and the Fabulous Five. This quickly opened other doors and shortly thereafter. The Tamlins signed a recording contract with one of Jamaica’s then top studios, Dynamic Sounds. Out of this came “Thick And Thin,” a ballad that made a good impression locally and drew interest from foreign labels such as Atlantic and Polydor. The Tamlins developed prominence in 1974 with “Eighteen With A Bullet,” and this paved the way for their first album titled “Black Beauty,” which was released by Dynamic Sounds and State Recording in England. The Tamlins went on to record for the famous Channel One which resulted in a chain of hits -– “Hard To Confess,” “That’s Life,” “Thinking” and “Sweat For You Baby,” and also the group’s second album, “Tamlins Greatest Hits.” In 1979, they released “Ting-A-Ling” on the Hawkeye Label in London. “Ting-A-Ling” became a No. 1 hit on the Black Echoes Chart and made it to the Top 10 of several other charts. Inevitably, numerous local artists were clamouring for the sweet harmony of The Tamlins as backing vocals. Willingly, they threw their musical weight behind performances of artists like Delroy Wilson, Pat Kelly, John Holt, Dennis Brown and Jimmy Cliff. They later toured the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, South America and the Eastern Caribbean Islands with Peter Tosh. Out of the Tosh relationship developed a rapport with the famed ‘rhythm twins’, Sly and Robbie, of Taxi Productions. The Tamlins first single on the Taxi Label was “Star,” to be followed by “Laying Beside You Baby” and then the remake of Nina Simone’s “Baltimore,” which was also released internationally by EMI. “Baltimore” held the No. 1 spot for twelve weeks and, indisputably, it was judged the “Number One Record of the Year” in Jamaica on JBC’s “Top 100” for 1980. The group also won the “Best Group Award” from JBC, Radio Jamaica and the Daily News that same year. Derrick Lara joined The Tamlins in 1983. The text below has been lifted from Wiki… Donovan Germain's entry into the music industry was via his record shop in New York City in the 1970’s. He began production in 1972, visiting Jamaica for recording sessions, working in both roots reggae and lovers rock. As a producer he had hits on the reggae charts with the likes of Cultural Roots', "Mr. Boss Man" in 1980, and broke through into the UK Singles Chart in the early and mid-1980’s with Sugar Minott's "Good Thing Going" and Audrey Hall's "One Dance Won't Do". He ran the Revolutionary Sounds label which started in the latter years of the 1970’s and ran from New York, and also ran the Rub-a-Dub, Reggae, and Germain labels. He returned to Kingston in 1987 and opened his Penthouse Studio on Slipe Pen Road (originally located on the top floor — hence the name — now located on Ballater Avenue and including a pressing facility), which soon became highly in-demand, and became one of the island's top studios, with Germain becoming recognized as one of the very top reggae producers, taking over as Jamaica's leading producer from King Jammy.