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01. Milton Henry - Who Do You Think I Am
02. Milton Henry - Let The Sunshine In
03. Milton Henry - No Dreams
04. Milton Henry - Send Me That Pillow
05. Milton Henry - Sweet Melody
06. Milton Henry - Good Old Days
07. Milton Henry - What Am I To Do
08. Milton Henry - Them A Devil
09. Milton Henry - You Don't Have To Know Me
ARTIST
TITLE
Who Do You Think I Am?
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
WACK 2450CD WACK 2450CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
2/20/2007

Milton Henry's handful of classic sides -- like his version of "Gypsy Woman," or "Cornbread and Butter" or "This World" and "Follow Fashion" over the Upsetter's fever rhythm (under the artist name King Medious) -- made him a natural Wackies' recruit when he relocated from Jamaica to New York City in the late '70s. Soon after, he was fully involved in the day-to-day business of the operation, supervising sales and promotion, making deliveries, even holding spare keys to the studio for whenever Bullwackies himself was away. He appears in this activist role on the front-sleeve photograph, just up White Plains Road from the Bronx HQ: by its title, though, and first and last songs, this album also hints heavily at the past musical accomplishments of its mystery hero. The record was released first in London, in 1984, during the first months of Wackies Dean Street office, in north Soho. The band is basically Itopia. Sly Dunbar gets a credit -- though neither he nor Robbie Shakespeare ever set foot in the studio: as if in acknowledgment for this rhythm, is "No Dreams." Jackie Mittoo and Bagga are 'pon the corner, from Studio One; Jerry Johnson and Neville Anderson are on brass; also Sugar and Max Romeo; and Sonia from the Love Joys performs a duet. "No Dreams" is the true story of Milton sleeping in the attic above the studio when the rough drum and bass track came onto the desk, waking him, pulling him to the mic; "Them A Devil" is aimed at certain producers passing off the singer's property as their own; "Good Old Days" was written for a poor Junior Byles, remembering times shared.