LAST LISTENED TO a couple of days ago
CHANCE OF WAKING TO IT ok, i guess
RATING
Ken Boothe is better known for another song. It's another cover, like this one. I forget the name and can't really be bothered to check for it. But you'd know it, if you heard it. He is Jamiacan and does reggae, by the way.
This one is, if you've not guessed, a cover of The Supremes hit You Keep Me Hanging On. If you can imagine that song done in a rocksteady/reggae/Jamaican soul style, by a man better known for somthing else, then you've got it. It's a nice enough tune, but it's nothing special and it lacks the drive and passion of the original. Still, if things Jamaican are your bag, then you'll might well go for this.
The version here is the extended 12" version and it really just goes on too long. The original can only have been around the three minutes. This version, however, is just over seven and instead of the extended sound dynamics that you might hope for (in a dubwise stylee), it merely stretches out the instrumental parts, with little additional flair. This goes on for quite a few minutes. Towards the end, someone at Studio One clearly got bored and decided to drop the vocals back in and rather abruptly at that, even for the somewhat slap-dash approach found at times in Jamiacan music (which of course is part of its appeal). And that's it for this tune.
Hear it once. Yawn. No repeat, thanks. Next…
