Music Album: Rough & Tough / The Mood I Am In
Album Release Date: November 1963
Music Genre: Reggae Ska
Record Label: Blue Beat
Album Release Country: United Kingdom
Music Record Type: 2 Tracks Vinyl Album 7"
Group formed by Arthur "Duke" Reid as his own backing band who backed young singers like Derrick Morgan and Jiving Juniors.
Those 'groups', as it goes, were often drawn from the same nucleus of musicians, who would simply change their name according to which sound system man (or producer, as they were becoming known) they were working for that day. Trojan? Fine, we're Duke Reid's group. Clement "Coxsone" Dodd? Yeah, now we're The Blues Blasters. And so on. On dozens of those early records from Jamaican R&B's 1958 - 62 heyday, the band included permutations of sax men Roland Alphonso, Val Bennett and Stanley 'Ribs' Notice, trumpeter's Ray Harper and Oswald Baba Brooks, trombonists Rico Rodriguez and
| A | Rough & Tough |
| B | The Mood I Am In |
B-side aka Baba Brooks Band - Country Town.
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