Judge Dread - Big Ten

Yet another banned song by the Judge, this one from 1975.
The B is credited to "Dread and I" and I haven't a clue who "I" was?

01 - Judge Dread - Big Ten
02 - Dread And I - Rasta Chat

Judge Dread - Oh! She Is A Big Girl Now / Big One

Double A side from 1973, Big One as usual was banned by the BBC but Big Girl did actually get a few plays on the radio.
For some reason Big One always makes me think of the "confessions" films which were around at the time :)
Don't think any other artist has ever cheered me up as much as the late Judge.

A1 - Oh She Is A Big Girl Now
A2 - Big One

Desmond Dekker - You Can Get It If You Really Want

From the days when Trojan only meant good music (or wooden horses maybe).
Desmond's second biggest UK hit from 1970.

01 - You Can Get It If You Really Want
02 - Perseverance

Bob Marley And The Wailers - No Woman No Cry

The record that finally gave Bob Marley a UK hit in 1975.

01 - No Woman No Cry
02 - Kinky Reggae
(Both tracks recorded live at the Lyceum, London date unknown)

Judge Dread - 5th Anniversary EP

Had to post some Judge Dread as he was such a great part of my early music listening years :)
I remember first hearing him at Music class at secondary school, every week pupils were allowed to bring in records to play for the last half hour of lesson.
Top tunes of the day were stuff like Slade, Lieutenant Pigeon's Mouldy old Dough!, Donny Osmand etc, but one kid brought in his brother's Big Six by Judge Dread (as well as Big Five by Prince Buster) and as the teacher used to leave us to it we all had a laugh until the teacher came back and blew a fuse :)
If nothing else it was a good introduction to Reggae/Ska and I went home and asked my sister to play some of her stuff, so I've always had a soft spot for this type of stuff.

Here's the sadly departed Judge's 5th Anniversary EP from 1977 which includes a nice variation of his works, End of the World is brilliant and should have been a big hit but the Judge's novelty past was against him, Big Everything is a nice compilation of the "Big" series.

01 - Jamaica Jerk Off
02 - Bring Back The Skins
03 - End Of The World
04 - Big Everything

Bruce Ruffin - Rain

I won't lie, this record is not perfect a fair bit of scratch noise.
It was a record I chased for years, as I really wanted the B-side "Geronimo" and couldn't find it anywhere, until finally getting hold of this copy in a market.

A - Rain
B - Geronimo