Q: There's so much Maytones singles that has appeared over the years, and there's a few I would like to ask you about. One for example is ´Unchangeable Love´ on the Rocking Time label credited to the ´Uprising Maytone´ circa ´75, plus ´I Want To Be Free´? Remember that one?
A: Yeah, Bill Hutchinson (laughs)! It was a friend of mine. He did live in Kingston. We do some trade, he give me a riddim an´ I voice a song for him. Them done the same time, ´ca it's only one time I have session for him. But this was like an exchange. Like, he give me riddims an´ I.. you know? There was a song I have on ´Rocky Road´ now, ´Who Can Hear Must Feel´, that was on his riddim. I get that riddim from him, and I think Horace Andy was on that riddim? So it was just like a riddim exchange, but we were friends still, yunno? ´Cause he did have a likkle store there on Chancery Lane. In the days we used to sit around an´.. y´know (chuckles)? Yes, so it's like it just a brethren. But that was a song he like, so..
Q: There's ´You Played A Fool´ on the Ruddys label? Can you recall that?
A: Okay (laughs)! Yeah, yeah! Ruddys, he did jus´ have a store in Spanish Town, like a record store.
Q: You had ´Judgement Day´ on the Commanda label, any memory left about that one?
A: That's my label (laughs)! Yeah, that's my personal label.
Q: Then there is ´Hard Rock Time´ by Little Roy & Maytones, and ´Promises´?
A: Yeah, all those songs are mine. My personal stuff. There was a little deejay I was promoting at the time, y´know (not to be confused with the singer of ´Prophecy´ fame.)?
Q: There was ´Rebel Goat´ with U Brown, and you did ´The Girl I Want´ on Doctor Bird?
A: Yeah, that (´The Girl I Want´) was produced in May Pen where I come from. Actually it was almost beside GGs (laughs). I jus´ voice the song. So we just stay beside there and voice the song.
Q: And ´I Am In Love´ on the Music Radics imprint? Plus ´I´m A Scientist´ on the NY Gee´s label and ´Jealousy´ on Black Zodiac? And ´Close The Door´ on Crown Lion?
A: That's (´Am In Love´) my personal work too, early eighties, yes. That one (´Jealousy´) was for a friend of mine, he had a sound system called Black Zodiac. So we just release the stuff under his sound name, but it's my stuff. I did release a song with Thriller U too, at the same time. On the same label, Black Zodiac label. ´Close The Door´, that's mine.. Got a few copies of that (laughs)! Crown Lion, that's my label too (laughs), yeah! That was done at Jammys, yeah.. with Bobby Digital.
Q: You had all those singles on mainly 12" and some 7" for I & I Sound in LA, like ´What A Situation´ on Jah Go International, ´Forget Your Troubles & Dance´, ´Move Up Move Up´ and ´Children of Today´, ´Want More Rub A Dub´, ´I´m In Love With You´. And of course ´Mr Postman´ on a 7". Lots of productivity while in LA, Vern?
A: Yeah, that's my stuff I give to I & I.
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