Dennis Brown - Let Love In [1972] (With Lyrics)

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Dennis Brown recorded more than 75 albums and was one of the major stars of lovers rock, a subgenre of reggae with its main focus being love songs. Bob Marley cited Brown as his favourite singer, dubbing him "The Crown Prince of Reggae", and Brown would prove influential on future generations of reggae singers.

Dennis Brown was born on February 1, 1957, in Victoria Jubilee Hospital in Kingston, Jamaica. His father Arthur was a scriptwriter, actor, and journalist, and he grew up in a large tenement yard between North Street and King Street in Kingston with his parents, three elder brothers and a sister, although his mother died in the 1960s. He began his singing career at the age of nine, while still at junior school, with an end-of-term concert the first time he performed in public, although he had been interested in music from an even earlier age, and as a youngster was a fan of American balladeers such as Brook Benton, Sam Cooke, Frank Sinatra, and Dean Martin. He cited Nat King Cole as one of his greatest early influences.

He regularly hung around JJ's record store on Orange Street in the rocksteady era and his relatives and neighbours would often throw Brown pennies to hear him sing in their yard. Brown's first professional appearance came at the age of eleven, when he visited "Tit for Tat" a local West Kingston Nightclub where his brother Basil was performing a comedy routine, and where he made a guest appearance with the club's resident group, the Fabulous Falcons (a group that included Cynthia Richards, David "Scotty" Scott, and Noel Brown). On the strength of this performance he was asked to join the group as a featured vocalist. When the group performed at a JLP conference at the National Arena, Brown sang two songs – Desmond Dekker's "Unity" and Johnnie Taylor's "Ain't That Loving You" – and after the audience showered the stage with money, he was able to buy his first suit with the proceeds. Bandleader Byron Lee performed on the same bill, and was sufficiently impressed with Brown to book him to perform on package shows featuring visiting US artists, where he was billed as the "Boy Wonder".

He went on to record for several producers including Lloyd Daley ("Baby Don't Do It" and "Things in Life"), Prince Buster ("One Day Soon" and "If I Had the World"), and Phil Pratt ("Black Magic Woman", "Let Love In", and "What About the Half"), before returning to work with Derrick Harriott, recording a string of popular singles including "Silhouettes", "Concentration", "He Can't Spell", and "Musical Heatwave", with the pick of these tracks collected on the Super Reggae and Soul Hits album in 1973.[10] Brown also recorded for Vincent "Randy" Chin ("Cheater"), Dennis Alcapone ("I Was Lonely"), and Herman Chin Loy ("It's Too Late" and "Song My Mother Used to Sing") among others, with Brown still at school at this stage of his career.

Dennis Brown died on the 1st of July, 1999.

Don Carlos first made a name for himself as one of the founding members of the influential reggae band Black Uhuru, who rose to international fame in the ’80s when they began to be backed by the legendary rhythm section of Sly Dunbar & Robbie Shakespeare, and The Roots Radics. Carlos launched a solo career of his own in 1981 with his debut album 'Suffering', a collection of deep, militant roots backed by the We The People Band. Mixed by Scientist, 'Them Never Know Natty Dread Have Him Credential' is Carlos’ sophomore effort and the first recorded alongside future longtime collaborator Alric Lansfield Malcolm aka Gold. While the roots vibe is still definitely present here, Carlos and Gold also dive into a few lighter, love-oriented songs included the amazing “Oh Girl,” which talks about a brokenhearted young boy who gets stood up at the bus stop after school.

Special Thanks to Doug Armstrong for assisting with transcribing these lyrics.

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