🎵 AotW Dennis Brown - FOUL PLAY (SP-4850)

[LPJim]

Dennis Brown
FOUL PLAY
A&M SP-4850

Dennis Brown - vocals
Willie Lindo - lead guitar
Lloyd Parks & Robbie Shakespeare - bass
Noel Bailey - rhythm guitar

Robbie Lyn, Frankie "Bubbler" Waul & Clive Hunt - keyboards
Ruddy Thomas & Uziah "Sticky" Thompson - percussion
Sly Dunbar & Devon Richardson - drums
Dean Fraser, Ronald "Nambo" Robinson & David Madden - horns

TRACKS:

On the Rocks
The Existence of Jah
Come On Baby
The World is Troubled
I Need Your Love

Foul Play
Your Man
If I Had the World
If I Follow my Heart
The Cheater

Produced by Clive Hunt & Joe Gibbs
Released 1981
Reissued on CD as part of the 2-disc "COMPLETE A&M YEARS" set

JB

 

[Dave]

Something likely to trade on the Robbie Shakespear/Sly Dunbar legacy... Any chance this was recorded in Jamaica at Dynamic Sound Studios in Kingston?

No surprise that this was archived on CD w/ likely another LP by this artist & possibly w/ the fact that the title bears resemblance to a certain BMB another cover concept could possibly had also been in mind...!


-- Dave

 

[LPJim]

Hmm, first there was BMB's 'FOWL PLAY' and then D.B.'s FOUL PLAY. Close enough. We also have EQUINOX by both Brasil '66 and Styx. Some album titles are too popular not to be reused:

TRUE COLOURS by Split Enz ... and TRUE COLORS by Cyndi Lauper;
TIME AND TIDE by Split Enz ... and Basia;
ENDLESS WIRE by the Who ... and Gordon Lightfoot;
BEDTIME STORIES by David Baerwald ... and Madonna.

If an AOTW topic isn't so interesting, it's always fun to come up with an online parlor game, I say.


JB

 

[A&Mguyfromwayback]

....which is better than my digression, which is "is it supposed to look like he has neon horns coming out of his head"......

 

[Rudy]

I did a double-take as it almost reminds me of a Ted Nugent album cover.

 

[Dave]

I did a double-take as it almost reminds me of a Ted Nugent album cover.

Aaaah, if only he had a Gibson Birdland in his hand!!!!

Otherwise, I would dismiss his mug as a bad looking Steven Tyler...!


-- Dave

 

[Rudy]

True dat!