CATCH A FIRE was released by Island Records in 1973. The only reggae song to hit the US Charts prior to the Wailers had been DA ISRAELITES by Desmond Dekker, which was featured in the movie THE HARDER THEY COME hitting NY theaters. No one in America was ready for reggae, but Bob Marley’s music captured the hearts of pot-smoking libertarians from Mass. Ave to Sunset Boulevard.
CONCRETE JUNGLE is perhaps one of the most revolutionary song ever recorded and nothing says kinky like KINKY REGGAE.
“She had brown sugar all over her booga-wooga.”
The seminal reggae LP only hit #171 on the 1973 Billboard chart.
Here’s there
Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite – Elvis Presley
Billion Dollar Babies – Alice Cooper
Brothers And Sisters – The Allman Brothers Band
Dark Side Of The Moon – Pink Floyd
Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player – Elton John
Goat’s Head Soup – The Rolling Stones
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – Elton John
I Am Woman – Helen Reddy
I’m Still in Love with You – Al Green
Lady Sings the Blues – Diana Ross
DARKSIDE OF THE MOON I’ve never heard in a go-go bar, and no one owns ALOHA FROM HAWAII anymore, whereas CATCH A FIRE is a must have for ganga lovers.
“Concrete Jungle, what do you got for me now?”
Immortality in the modern age.