Name: Uptown Top Ranking
Brand: Althea and Donna

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SVVRCH043

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Colour

black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-01-28

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

F Minor

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Althea and Donna

Genre GB

Reggae / Dub

Label GB

Front Line

The Joe Gibbs produced <i>Uptown Top Ranking</i> is a classic song by althea and donna which was a big hit in 1977. Althea Forrest and Donna Reid were 17 and 18 respectively when the song was bubbling on the charts. This album reissue is full of the style from the golden age of reggae.Aalthea and Donna helped blaze the trail for other female artists. Produced and engineered with Karl Pitterson at the controls. Musicians like Sly and Robbie, Earl 'chinna' Smith, Bernard 'touter' Harvey, Scully, Tommy Mccook, Vin Gordon and Herman Marquis provide the crucial instrumental journey. It captures the weekend style, philosophy and mating habits of a generation of West Indian teens, creating a snapshot as charmingly naive and culturally valuable as the Beach Boys' depictions of Californian surf culture.

Uptown Top Ranking

Music GB