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"Run for Cover" is a 1967 rocksteady and reggae single by Lee "Scratch" Perry, credited as Lee "King" Perry. The recording featured Perry, his band, Lynn Taitt on guitar and The Sensations as backing singers. It was recorded at Clifford Rae's WIRL studio and appeared on the WIRL record label in Jamaica, then in the UK on Graeme Woodall's Doctor Bird (label), both pressings with "Something You've Got" on the B-side.
This Is Reggae Music: The Golden Era 1960-1975 is a reggae retrospective anthology issued as a 4-CD box set in 2004 by Trojan Records. The anthology, which was compiled by Colin Escott and Bas Hartong, is arranged in chronological order and features tracks by various artists, starting with mento and ska from the first half of the 1960s, then progressing to the slower rhythms of rocksteady and reggae, which both emerged later in the decade, continuing into the 1970s. Several of the acts featured are Derrick Morgan, Desmond Decker & the Aces, Toots & the Maytals, Jimmy Cliff, and Bob Marley and the Wailers.
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- ↑ John Masouri Wailing Blues: The Story of Bob Marley's Wailers 2008 - Page 78 "CHAPTER FIVE Upsettin' LEE Perry used Family Man and other members of the Hippy Boys on the majority of his ... him for 'Prince In The Back'), and J. J. Johnson, for whom he voiced the acrimonious 'Run For Cover', aimed at Coxsone."
- ↑ Stephen Davis, Peter Simon Reggae international 1982 - Page 81 "By the time [1969] the Wailers first threw their lot in with Lee Perry, Lee had built up a well- deserved reputation through his stewardship with ... singles directed at Coxsone, "Run for Cover" and "The Upsetter," which became a smash hit."
- ↑ "The Upsetter" Black Music (January 1975) "Perry says the song was his was of expressing how he felt about the way Clement Dodd (Sir Coxsone) had treated him financially while he had been working for Dodd. It spoke of revenge: "You take people for fool, yeah / And use them as a tool, yeah / But I am the av-en-ger..."
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