Prince Buster - Dance Cleopatra Dance (1972)

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Title: Dance Cleopatra Dance
Year Of Release: 1972
Label: Prince Buster Music / Blue Elephant
Genre: Reggae, Ska, Bluebeat
Quality: FLAC (tracks) | Mp3 / 320kbps
Total Time: 42:18
Total Size: 232 MB | 97.1 MB
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Tracklist
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01. Dance Cleopatra
02. Madness
03. Take It Easy
04. Oh Love
05. Times to Risk
06. 007 (Shanty Town)
07. Come to Jamaica
08. Cincinnati Kid
09. Move Over
10. Sounds and Pressure
11. On the Beach
12. Al Capone
13. Waiting for My Rude Girl

"Oh great Caesar, could you come and let Cleopatra dance this dance? Dance Cleopatra, dance," Prince Buster commands, and the Egyptian queen obeys, to a simmering set of songs drawn from the rocksteady and early reggae era. That includes "Madness" and "Al Capone," HRH's ska hits, now deftly recut for the new musical climes. The former is positively sultry, the latter appears in a five-minute-plus extended extravaganza. No longer a brass showcase, the horns now have to share the stage with flashy guitar, although Val Bennett grabs the spotlight for a solo at one point. The new loping rhythm is superb, the musicians in top form, with Buster excitedly the gangster king gunning the listener down one more time. Not content with covering his own hits, the singing producer also versions others. A trio are grabbed straight from the Jamaican charts -- a splendid western-flavored take on Hopeton Lewis' "Take It Easy," a less successful stab at the Paragons' "On the Beach," and a magnificent cover of Desmond Dekker's "007 (Shanty Town)" boasting both brass and surf guitar. And in keeping with the rudie theme of that latter number, "Waiting for My Rude Girl," is an inspired version of Lee Dorsey's classic chestnut "Ya-Ya." Of the Prince's compositions, the stand-outs are the R&B-flavored "Sounds and Pressure," the funky "Move Over" (mistitled "More Over" on the set), and the sizzling, brass-driven instrumental "Cincinnati Kid," although all the tracks are worthy of note.

Modern critics have shown little interest in Buster's work during this period, beyond the almighty "Judge Dread," but as this set, initially released in 1972, well illustrated, the Prince was unleashing a stream of royal singles throughout the era.~Dance Cleopatra Dance Review by Jo-Ann Greene


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