Sunday, August 06, 2006

Cotton Comes To Harlem


Inspired by the 1970 comedic Blaxploitation movie " Cotton Comes To Harlem " heres Winston Wright & The Crystalites ode to the saga of Cotton Ed and Gravedigger Jones! Much like the Spaghetti-Western inspired reggae insturmentals of the era, Blaxploitation flicks were ripe with imagery that found its way onto Jamaican wax. That's Derrick& Scotty on the intro: "I'm Cotton Ed" and "I'm the Gravedigger"..."Cotton Comes to Harlem" This is actually a Hammond version of Derrick Harriot's "Lolipop Girl". While the US had its own Hammond organ grinders like Jimmy Smith, Johnny Hammond, Jimmy Mcgriff, etc, Jamaica gave just as good as it got with the likes of Winston Wright, Gladstone Anderson, Jackie Mittoo, Ansel Collins, etc.Looks like its available on repress , I picked this nugget up years ago from Reggae Revive in London, another sublime Hammond reggae cut!





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