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I Roy - Tougher Than Tough / Chosen Few - Do Your Thing
Crystal / Dub Store Records JPN 1972
¥2180 (US$14.31)
Another cover version of an Isaac Hayes’ classic. I Roy is blasting an heavy-weight toasting over the Chosen Few's vocals on the A-side "Tougher Than Tough". A straight cover version by Chosen Few appears on the B-side.
I Roy - Sky Juice & Festival Dumpling / Dub
Channel One / Digikiller / Deeper Knowledge US
¥1180 (US$7.75)
All Channel diehards should know this tune, as it's the deejay cut to our man Enforcer's all time classic roots tune, "Pay Them" and is of course, well heavy. This one is backed with a previously unreleased dub of the rhythm, different again from the "Pay Them" single dub side.
I Roy - Suffers Psalm / Fire Burn
Impact US (Org) 1974
Swing Easy Info: Original Press
¥3280 ¥1780 (US$11.68)
Dennis Brown; I Roy - Take A Trip; Fresh & Clean / Dennis Brown; Big Youth - My Time; 16 Dead 19 Gone Jail
Observer Gold UK 1975
¥1980 (US$13.00)
I Roy - Fire In A Wire / Dub
Royco Inc / Digikiller / Deeper Knowledge US 1979
¥1180 (US$7.75)
Throughout the 1970's, I-Roy recorded for tons of producers, and eventually began bartering with many of them for cuts of rhythms to voice himself on, as his own productions. Through his popularity in the UK, I-Roy got a deal with Virgin Records to release many of these new self-productions. Tucked away on these albums is this pair of wicked tunes, prime for release on single. 'Fire in a Wire', originally released on I-Roy's 'The General' vocal & dub double-album, and as a 12-inch single. Here we have the album cuts, vocal and its dub, entitled 'Warlord of Zenda' (presumably named after the novel/film 'The Prisoner of Zenda'). These tunes are re-presented on the Royco Inc. label, I-Roy's own original label used in the early 1970's.