The Race Fans - What's Wrong With You / Bookie Man 7"
SKU: HSRSS0011
Description:
Following our last release by the Bleechers, we are proud to
announce the release of 'What's Wrong With You' / 'Bookie
Man' by the Race Fans. We are also glad to shed some light on
yet another Reggay mystery! The Bleechers got a couple of
tracks they did not record but got credited for. The brilliant
'What’s Wrong With You', their very first track on an Upsetter
blank in 1968, is actually not performed by them... but by the Race
Fans!
The Race Fans recorded two songs: 'Time Marches On' and a
great song called 'Bookie Man' for the Upset label in Jamaica
and on Trojan in UK in 1968. Unknown to many, they recorded a third
track: the stunning 'What’s Wrong With You'. To add confusion,
it was also named 'Bookie Man' but was completely different
from the aforementioned track. Somehow this 'Bookie Man - What’s
Wrong With You' track was released as a B side for The
Upsetters' 'Man From MI5' single and credited to The
Bleechers. This is therefore the first official release of
this song under the correct title and the correct artist
credit.
Very little is known about The Race Fans except that the well-known
Jamaican singer David Isaacs was in it. In the late 60s and early
70s Isaacs recorded for Lee 'Scratch' Perry and Trojan before
joining the Itals with whom he performed for over 20
years. Beside the three songs with The Race Fans, Isaacs
also recorded about 50 singles and 6 albums under his own name
throughout his long career.
Although officially produced by Lee Scratch Perry, both songs are
credited to “Anderson”, probably Lynford Anderson aka Andy Capp, a
gifted sound engineer, producer and vocalist who founded the Upset
label with Lee Scratch Perry in 1967.
This killer double sider is the first release of the stunning
'Bookie Man - What’s Wrong With You'. It was previously
released as a blank label only in 1968 and was wrongly credited to
The Bleechers. On the B side, 'Bookie Man' is a
completely different track and it is a rare and brilliant song in
its own right. It is also the first time the two 'Bookie
Man' songs are featured together on a 7inch.
Format & package: 7"
Record label: Harlem
Shuffle
Year of release: 2022
Tracks:
A What's Wrong
With You
B Bookie Man
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| Weight | 0,15 Kg |
