Bitty McLean - Just To Let You Know... - 1994

Bitty McLean / Just To Let You Know...

Жанр: Pop Reggae,Lovers Rock,Rock Steady
Носитель: CD
Страна-производитель диска (релиза): Holland
Год издания: 1994
Издатель (лейбл): The Brilliant/The Total/Virgin
Номер по каталогу: CDBRIL 1,7243 8 39405 2 3
Страна исполнителя (группы): England
Аудиокодек: FLAC (*.flac)
Тип рипа: image+.cue
Битрейт аудио: (lossy + lossless)
Продолжительность: 00:43:56
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Треклист:

01 Here I Stand

02 What Goes Round (Comes Around)

03 True True True

04 I've Got Love

05 Stop This World

06 It Keeps Rainin'

07 Dedicated To The One I Love

08 Forever Be Mine

09 Talkin' To The Wind

10 Pass It On

11 Pass It On (Reprise)

Об исполнителе (группе)
Bitty McLean (born 8 August 1972, Birmingham, England) is a British/Jamaican reggae, lovers rock and ragga musician. He is best known for his three UK Top 10 hits in 1993 and 1994, including his debut offering 'It Keeps Rainin' (Tears from My Eyes)'.The youngest of six children, Delroy McLean was nicknamed 'Bitty' due to his small stature. As a teenager he performed with local sound systems, and after studying sound engineering at college, he was employed by UB40 as an engineer and producer, and occasionally also sang with the band.
He was most popular around the mid 1990s with cover versions of songs including The Shirelles' 'Dedicated to the One I Love' (UK #6[3]) and Fats Domino's 'It Keeps Rainin' (Tears from My Eyes)' (1993), which was his biggest UK hit, peaking at #2. McLean's song 'It Keeps Rainin' (Tears from My Eyes)' topped the charts in New Zealand and the Netherlands in 1993. McLean also played on three UK arena tours supporting UB40, Wet Wet Wet and Simply Red respectively.
In 2004, he released the album On Bond Street KGN. JA., which featured his vocals recorded over vintage Tommy McCook and Duke Reid-produced, Treasure Isle rhythms from the rocksteady era, most with new lyrics of his own, but also using David Ruffin's 'Walk Away From Love' and David Gates' 'Make It With You'. He recorded a studio album in 2007, entitled Movin' On, with Sly and Robbie at their One Pop studios in Kingston, Jamaica. Movin' On was released on Taxi / Silent River / Mideya label in Europe and the US, while JVC released it in Japan. McLean and Sly & Robbie toured Japan, Europe and Morocco in 2008 and 2009. In 2013 McLean released a new album, The Taxi Sessions, with Sly & Robbie, and a live DVD recorded with Sly & Robbie and the Taxi Gang, during their concert in Paris in May 2009. Also in 2013, McLean joined The Lee Thompson Ska Orchestra on vocals, for a cover of Desmond Dekker's Fu Man Chu (a single release for the band). He also joined them on stage for several shows, appeared in the official video that accompanied the single and, in May 2013, joined them on Later... with Jools Holland to perform the track.

Об альбоме (сборнике)
You won't find a lot of angry, militant protest songs on Bitty McLean's debut album, Just to Let You Know..., which came out when the reggae-pop singer was only 21. Though the CD contains a few conscious tunes -- including remakes of Bunny Wailer's 'Pass It On' and Leroy Sibbles' 'Stop the World' -- the majority of the material is apolitical, sleek lovers rock. And because he enjoyed major pop hits in England with his covers of the Shirelles' 'Dedicated to the One I Love' and Fats Domino's 'It Keeps Rainin' (both of which are included on this album), McLean was viewed with suspicion by reggae's hardliners and purists, who saw him as too commercial. But the fact is that McLean is a fairly charismatic, and much of this album is enjoyable, if derivative. When McLean sings, you can tell that he's spent a lot of time listening to Motown as well as classic rocksteady groups like the Paragons and the Heptones. Not a gem but generally likable, Just to Let You Know... indicated that McLean had potential.