LAST LISTENED TO some time last week
CHANCE OF WAKING TO IT middling
RATING
Jamaican Dawn Penn originally recorded this ditty during the rocksteady period at the end of the '60s. It was a big hit in Jamaica, but she never followed up on it and soon retired from music altogether. However, 17 years later she stared to revive her career. Meeting little success initially, in '94 she re-recorded her biggest hit (in the more current dancehall style) and had a global hit with it.
As you'd expect for a dancehall tune, there is bass aplenty and a mid-pace rhythm. Added to this are the odd vocal sample and some brass that, knowing the tendency for re-cycling in Jamiacan music, could in fact be from the original, just speeded up. Not that it really matters when the brass is as warm and friendly as this.
The real star is, of course, Penn's vocal, which floats over the top delightfully. The 12" features five mixes of the track and of them the best (by far) is the one that is cut for radio and gives the most time to the delightful vocal.
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