Slickers, Breakthrough / Break Through, Original Press
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Breakthrough by The Slickers, Original Pressing
A very nice copy of Breakthrough (or Break Through) by The Slickers.
This is an original pressing on Tad's Records / The Rootsman Production, Inc. label, produced by Earl Chin and Tad Dawkins. LP is T.R.D. L.P. 101679A The Slickers featured Leroy "Horse Mouth" Wallace, Robbie Shakespear, Jeffrey Chung, Augustus Pablo, Robbie Linn, Mikey Chung, Earl "Chixio" Smith, and Earl Chin.
This album includes the songs Marcus, Johnnie (Johnny) Too Bad, Every Wolf, Give Us a Break, Run Comes, African Children, and Black A Whites.
If you haven't heard of The Slickers, Wikipedia offers this:
The Slickers were a Jamaican rocksteady and reggae group in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
They are best known for the song, "Johnny Too Bad", which featured on the film soundtrack of The Harder They Come, and which was sung with additional lyrics by John Martyn on his Grace and Danger album.
The Slickers centred around Derrick Crooks, who had been one of the founding members of The Pioneers along with his brother Sydney. In the mid 1960s, The Slickers consisted of the Crooks brothers and Winston Bailey.[2] Derrick was the only constant member,[3] with Abraham Green joining the Crooks brothers at the time "Johnny Too Bad" was recorded. The Slickers have often been wrongly assumed to simply be an alias for The Pioneers due to their similar vocal stylings.[3] The Slickers toured the United Kingdom and United States on the back of the success of "Johnny Too Bad", and continued until 1979, when they recorded the Breakthrough album, before splitting up.
The song was featured on the soundtrack for the 1972 Jimmy Cliff film, The Harder They Come, and later covered by the British reggae group, UB40, the American reggae punk band Sublime and blues artist Taj Mahal. The song was also part of bluegrass artist Peter Rowan's live repertoire during much of the mid 1980s.
Album is in beautiful shape with absolutely no visible scratches or markings. Clean and shiny, all of the records up now came from the same private collection, from a collector who took very good care of his albums. The sleeve has some tanning to the white paper along edges, with some scuffs at corners and along edge extremities.
Let us know if you have any questions, and thanks for looking.
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