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1LP Vinyl – LANR029
Delroy George Wilson (5 October 1948 – 6 March 1995) was a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae singer.
Wilson is often regarded as Jamaica's first child star, having first found success as a teenager.
His youngest son, Karl "Konan" Wilson, has found success as part of British duo Krept and Konan.
His voice matured as he left his teens, around the time of ska's transition to rocksteady and this period in the late 1960s produced many hits including one of the first rocksteady records, "Dancing Mood", "Jerk in Time" (with the Wailers), "Feel Good All Over", "I'm Not a King", "True Believer in Love", "Rain From the Skies", "Conquer Me" and "Riding for a Fall". "Won't You Come Home", a duet with Ken Boothe on a rhythm originally cut by The Conquerors for Sonia Pottinger has become one of the most-versioned Jamaican tracks ever.
After leaving Studio One he recorded for other labels, with varying degrees of success, and set up his own short-lived W&C label.
He enjoyed success with Bunny Lee in the late 1960s and early 1970s with tracks such as "This Old Heart of Mine", "Footsteps of Another Man", and "Better Must Come".
His double A-side "It Hurts"/"Put Yourself in My Place" was a skinhead favourite and narrowly missed UK chart success.
He recorded a version of "Run Run", a song he had originally recorded for Dodd, for maverick producer Keith Hudson. Wilson toured the UK and recorded for Trojan Records in 1970.
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Side 1
1 Sharing The Night Together
2 When You Are In Love With A Beautiful Woman
3 Do That To Me One More Time
4 What's Going On
5 Play Something Pretty
Side 2
1 Love To See You Smile
2 (There's) No Getting Over Me
3 Honey
4 Peculiar
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