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01. JOHNNY CLARKE - Riding For A Fall
02. JOHNNY CLARKE - Midnight Cowboy
03. JOHNNY CLARKE - It's A Disgrace
04. JOHNNY CLARKE - Satisfaction
05. JOHNNY CLARKE - I Love You Madly
06. JOHNNY CLARKE - Play Fool, Get Wise
07. JOHNNY CLARKE - This Heart Of Mine
08. JOHNNY CLARKE - I Can't Explain
09. JOHNNY CLARKE - Easy Skanking
10. JOHNNY CLARKE - Why Did You Leave
ARTIST
TITLE
Satisfaction
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
RR 308CD RR 308CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
4/21/2017

Radiation Roots present a reissue of Johnny Clarke's Satisfaction, originally released in 1979. Tenor singer Johnny Clarke had many false starts in his youthful days. Hanging around Studio One as a schoolboy with Jacob Miller, Clarke was supposed to record material written for him by Bob Andy, but somehow never made the grade. His 1973 debut recording for lesser-known producer Glen Stair was not released, and early work for Clancy Eccles failed to hit, though "Everyday Wondering" for Rupie Edwards made an underground impact in Britain and New York. Subsequent singles for Keith Hudson and Glen Brown also did not get very far, but the breakthrough finally came when Bunny Lee asked him to sing "None Shall Escape The Judgement", which was written by the singer Earl Zero; it became a massive hit that launched the "flying cymbal" craze (based on an open-and-closed high-hat cymbal pattern, adapted from the Soul Train theme), and Clarke became one of Lee's most reliable hit-makers, partly because Lee stoked a rivalry between him and Cornell Campbell, whom Lee had previously asked to voice "None Shall Escape". Clarke's Satisfaction LP was recorded at Harry J's studio for Lee, voiced at King Tubby's studio, and issued by Third World in 1979. It is a set largely comprised of cover tunes, such as the strong opening update of the Paragons' "Riding For A Fall", the title track adapting their rock steady hit "My Satisfaction" in a post-rockers style. Better still is the hard-hitting "reality" tune, "Play Fool, Get Wise", which uses a proverb to relate a means of avoiding trouble on the dog-eat-dog mean streets of Kingston.