Augustus Pablo – Thunder Clap
Original Rockers
Producer: Augustus Pablo for Rockers Productions
Arranger: Augustus Pablo
Mixing engineer: King Tubby, Phillip Smart, Prince Jammy
Recording studios: Channel One, Dynamic Sounds
Mixing studios: King Tubby’s
Recorded: 1972-75
LP: Rockers DSR 0310 (1977), Greensleeves GREL 8 (1979), Shanachie LP 002 (1979)
CD: Shanachie SH 44008 (1991), Greensleeves GREWCD 8 (2001, digitally re-mastered with two bonus tracks)
Track notes:
Rockers Dub: version of the Heptones’ classic Love Won’t Come Easy; vocals by Pablo & Paul K.
Cassava Piece: version of the Jacob Miller’s Baby I Love You So
Jah Dread: a different mix of Jacob Miller’s Who Say Jah No Dread; vocals by Pablo
Brace a Boy: version of the Dillinger’s Brace Boy; vocals by Dillinger & Clive
Thunder Clap: instrumental cut of Horace Andy’s Ain’t No Sunshine
Park Lane Special: original b-side dub to Hugh Mundell’s Africa Must Be Free; vocals by Hugh Mundell
AP Special: version of the Dillinger’s Brace Boy
Musicians :
Augustus Pablo: organ, piano, clavinet, glockenspiel, melodica
Aston “Family Man” Barrett: bass
Carlton “Carlie” Barrett: drums
Earl “Chinna” Smith: guitar
Richard “Dirty Harry” Hall: saxophone
Bobby Ellis: trumpet
Vincent “Don D Junior” Gordon: trombone
vocals: Dillinger & Clive on “Brace a Boy”, Pablo & Paul K. on “Rockers Dub”; Hugh Mundell on “Park Lane Special”; Pablo on “Jah Dread”
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