Freddie Mckay
Rocksteady singer Freddie McKay had a few hits in the '60s (one of which was miscredited to someone else!), recorded with the Soul Defenders, among other studio groups, and worked with Jamaica's top reggae producers Duke Reid, Coxsone Dodd, and Prince Buster.
Purportedly born in the late '40s in St. Catherine, Freddie McKay went on to record for the Studio One and Treasure Isle labels, working with studio bands the Revolutionaires, the G.G. Allstars, and the Soul Defenders, with whom McKay cut "Picture on the Wall" (his biggest hit), "High School Dance," and other enjoyable, but non-charting, songs including "Old and Gray." According to the compilation Wake Up Jamaica, another one of McKay's hits, "Love Is a Treasure," was initially released in the late '60s as a Treasure Isle Boys single. The song's reissue in the early '70s got the performer wrong again, this time listing Tommy McCook's All Stars. Eventually, the record was set straight and a few of Freddie McKay's singles remained perennial favorites on ska and rocksteady compilations decades later.
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Diskografie
6 Album, -en • Geordnet nach Bestseller
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Tribal Inna Yard
Reggae - Erschienen bei Live & Learn Records am 03.12.2014
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Freddie Mckay Meets King Tubbys Playlist
Reggae - Erschienen bei Gorgon Records am 27.08.2015
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Disco 45
Reggae - Erschienen bei Gorgon Music - VPAL Music am 14.04.2011
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Going / Tonight
Reggae - Erschienen bei Alexander Music Group am 13.01.2014
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Going / Tonight
Reggae - Erschienen bei Gorgon Music - VPAL Music am 13.01.2014
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