Thursday music corner: Lee "Scratch" Perry, who died aged 85 in August, issued an enormously productive and pioneering wave of what would become known as reggae from his Jamaican studio in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The instrumental Dollar in the Teeth is a B-side of a single Return of Django from his sixth studio album with his house band, Eastwood Rides Again, which was part of a hugely prolific sequence of albums he released in 1969 and 1970, many of which featured ‘spaghetti western’ themes. Return of Django / Dollar in the Teeth was the Upsetters’ only UK charting single, reaching number 5 in October 1969.
The Upsetters – Dollar in the Teeth (1969)
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