Errol Dunkley - Black Cinderella (Black Cinderella Riddim) | Review

bahagia-arbi (67)in Music • 5 years ago

A clasic reggae song I share with you today is one of a good reggae one I love listening to. And I want you to know about it.

Who is Errol Dunkley?

He is a jamaican reggae musician born in Kingston on 6th February 1951. Eroll Dunkley is also a rocksteady singer who enjoyed success with a number of his 1970s singles.

As one of reggae's early performers, Errol Durkley bridged the roots of music from Jamaica, in the 1960s, and London's Brit-reggae scene of the ‘70s. His biggest hit, a remake of John Holt's "OK Fred", which barely missed the UK's top ten in 1978, was re-recorded, as a duet with Queen Sister N, in 1996.

Eleven years old when he made his debut recording, Dunkley went on to work with many of Jamaica's greatest producers. His debut 1964 recording, "My Queen", was produced by Prince Buster, while Joe Gibbs oversaw the recording of his first hit, You're Gonna Need Me ", in 1967. Although he recorded several tunes for Clement" Coxsone "Dodd's Studio One and Bunny Lee, none became a hit He fared much better with "Three In One", produced by Rupie Edwards, in 1969, and dancehall anthem, "Black Cinderella", produced by Jimmy Rodway, in 1972. His first album, Presenting Errol Durkley, followed shortly afterwards.

Although he founded the African Museum label with Gregory Isaacs and scored the imprint's first hit single, "Movie Star", based on Delroy Wilson's "I Don't Know Why", in the early-1970s, Durkley left the label and moved to London , in 1973. Signing with the Shelley Recording Company, Dunkley recorded his second album, Sit And Cry in a London studio. Durkley continued to build a following in the United Kingdom and Europe. His first British hit, "A Little Way Different", released in 1974, was followed by such UK releases as "Betcha By Golly Wow", "Happiness Forget" and "OK Fred.

Durkley's debut album was reissued, as Darling Ooh, in 1991. After maintaining a low profile, as a recording artist, in the 1980s, Durkley released Continually in 2000 and Please Stop Your Lying in 2001.

Errol Dunkley on Social Media

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Or if you want to listen to his songs, you can find them on Spotify, Deezer, and TuneIn.

Info of The Songs

Song: Black Cinderella
Artist: Errol Dunkley
Album: Keep the Pressure Down
Released: 2019
Genre: Reggae
Licenced to YouTube by: The Orchard Music (on the name of P.E.R Records); Peermusic, EMI Music Publishing, UMPI, BMI - Broadcast Music Inc., BMG Rights Management, ARESA, dan 6 copy rights of music.

Available: Deezer.

Lyrics

[Intro]
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Whoa, whoa

[Chorus: Errol Dunkley (sampled)]
I’ve got to find my Black Cinderella, oh oh

[Verse 1]
Me tell you she nuh discreet pon the city streets
So she see it, so she do it
She say she sweet so ‘til you repeat
Me have a speech fi you listen fi it
Young girl wear your size cah dem shoes deh nuh fit you feet
Choose fi manipulate, use you fi get you weak
And she nuh cheap, you have the dues fi facilitate
Cinderella put the spell on you
Princess with the glass slipper come fi trick oonu
Me tell oonu say

[Chorus: Errol Dunkley (sampled)]
I’ve got to find my Black Cinderella, -rella
She cannot be my Black Cinderella, -rella, -rella
Oh oh

[Verse 2]
And when me say it turn to porridge from the pumpkin
Country bumpkin inna the carriage where the skunk in
And like a dream when it sunk in, what a something
In reality she looking for a fun thing
But in reality I’m looking to become king
Though my duality it have me chasing, hunting
For the physical pleasure then
Although the real treasure them
Only spiritually measure them

[Chorus: Errol Dunkley (sampled)]
I’ve got to find my Black Cinderella, -rella
She cannot be my Black Cinderella, -rella, -rella
Oh oh

[Verse 3]
She nice and she fit and she round and she firm
Ripe Julie mango but heart full of worm
Daughter confirm that her thoughts full of germs
How she find me? Say goodbye lady!
She want it, she get it then she leave it fi spoil
Same meditation she teach to your child
Careful, you wind up beside her, you frighten, you might pay
So what I say, ay

[Chorus: Errol Dunkley (sampled)]
I’ve got to find my Black Cinderella, -rella
She cannot be my Black Cinderella, -rella, -rella
Oh oh

[Repeat Verse 1]
Me tell you she nuh discreet pon the city streets
So she see it, so she do it
She say she sweet so ‘til you repeat
Me have a speech fi you listen fi it
Young girl wear your size cah dem shoes deh nuh fit you feet
Choose fi manipulate, use you fi get you weak
And she nuh cheap, you have the dues fi facilitate
Cinderella put the spell on you
Princess with the glass slipper come fi trick oonu
Me tell oonu say

[Chorus: Errol Dunkley (sampled)]
I’ve got to find my Black Cinderella, -rella
She cannot be my Black Cinderella, -rella, -rella

Source: https://genius.com/amp/Protoje-black-cinderella-lyrics

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