Dawn Penn - No, No, No - 1994

Dawn Penn / No, No, No

Жанр: Reggae,Lovers Rock,Rock Steady,R&B
Носитель: CD
Страна-производитель диска (релиза): Germany
Год издания: 1994
Издатель (лейбл): Big Beat/Atlantic/Warner
Номер по каталогу: 7567-92365-2
Страна исполнителя (группы): Jamaica
Аудиокодек: FLAC (*.flac)
Тип рипа: image+.cue
Битрейт аудио: (lossy + lossless)
Продолжительность: 00:57:50
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Треклист:

1 I Want A Love I Can See

2 I'm Sorry

3 You Don't Love Me (No, No, No) (Extended Mix)

4 Night And Day

5 My Love Takes Over

6 The First Cut Is The Deepest

7 I'll Do It Again

8 Hurt

9 Samfi Boy

10 Keep In Touch

11 My Man

12 Blue Yes Blue

13 You Don't Love Me (No, No, No) (Remix)

Об исполнителе (группе)
Dawn Penn (born in 1952 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae singer. She first had a short career during the rocksteady era, between 1967 and 1969, but is most known for her single 'You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)' which became a worldwide hit in 1994.Dawn Penn's earliest recordings were composed and written by her around 1966 using session musicians. In 1967, she recorded the rocksteady single 'You Don't Love Me', produced by Coxsone Dodd at Studio One. She also recorded 'Why Did You Leave' at Studio One, 'Broke My Heart' for Bunny Lee, 'I Let You Go Boy' and covers of 'To Sir with Love' and 'Here Comes the Sun'. Dawn had also recorded for singer and producer Prince Buster early in her career with songs like 'Long Day, Short Night', 'Blue Yes Blue' and 'Here's the Key'. By 1970, Penn had left the music industry and had moved to the Virgin Islands. However, she faced racism there, and in 1987, she returned to Jamaica and to music.
In the summer of 1992, she was invited to appear on stage at a Studio One anniversary show, where she performed the song 'You Don't Love Me' with Steely & Clevie as backing musicians. The performance was a success, and she returned to the recording studio to re-record the song for the tribute album Steely & Clevie Play Studio One Vintage. It was released as the single 'You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)' over a year later, reaching the charts in the U.S. and Europe, plus hitting #1 in her native Jamaica, and making #3 in the UK Singles Chart. Penn's album, No, No, No, was released on Big Beat Records in 1994.
Subsequently, 'You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)' has been sampled and covered by the artists Kano, Hexstatic, Jae Millz, Ghostface Killah, Mims, Eve featuring Stephen Marley and Damian Marley. Their versions were all renamed as 'No, No, No', bar Ghostface's, which was named 'The Splash'.
Penn performed at the Drum in Birmingham, England, in April 2006, and, in the same year, was on the bill at the Uppsala Reggae Festival in Sweden. In 2011, Penn released a music video for the song 'City Life', directed by Antoine Dixon-Bellot. On 30 June 2013, Penn performed 'You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)' at the BET Awards. In 2014, The Lee Thompson Ska Orchestra released the single 'Bangarang' featuring Penn on lead vocals, and she appeared in the official video to accompany the single. Penn joined the Ska Orchestra on stage to perform the track, on Halloween night 2013, at The Jazz Café in London's Camden Town. Penn also appeared with Thompson and backing singer Darren Fordham on Jools Holland's 2013/14 Hootenanny and again at the Glastonbury Festival in 2014.

Об альбоме (сборнике)
Imagine how R&B fans would have felt if, in the early 1990s, 1960s soul goddess Carla Thomas had come out of retirement to return to the charts with a hip-hop influenced remake of one of the Stax smashes she was famous for. Unfortunately, that didn't really happen, but something comparable did happen in reggae in the early 1990s, when Dawn Penn (who had left the music industry in 1970) returned to the charts with a remake of her 1960s smash 'You Don't Love Me (No, No, No).' Thankfully, Penn's voice has held up well over the years, and she's in generally good form on 1994's No, No, No, her first full-length album after her comeback. Though the production of Sly Dunbar, Steely & Clevie, and others is slick and high tech, and some of the material has a strong urban contemporary flavor -- especially 'I'll Do It Again' and 'Samfi Boy' -- much of the CD recalls the type of rocksteady style that Penn was known for in the 1960s. To be sure, 'The First Cut Is the Deepest,' 'Keep in Touch,' and a cover of Smokey Robinson's 'I Want a Love I Can See' are a lot slicker, glossier, and more produced than Penn's Studio One recordings of the late 1960s. But the rocksteady influence is prominent nonetheless. Although No, No, No isn't as strong as it could have been, it's a respectable, decent effort, and it certainly is nice to see Penn recording again after so many years.