Mar292024

Dave & Ansel Collins

Dave & Ansell Collins (sometimes billed as Dave and Ansil Collins or Dave & Ansel Collins). Dave Barker (born David John Crooks, 10 October 1947, Kingston, Jamaica), a session vocalist, and Ansell Collins (born 1949, Kingston, Jamaica) , a keyboards player, were working for producer Lee “Scratch” Perry in Kingston, Jamaica in the late 1960s, and joined forces in 1971, for the ska single “Double Barrel”. Released on Techniques Records, part of the Trojan Records label, it topped the Jamaican and UK charts in March of that year. Read more on Last.fm

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# Title Plays
1Double Barrel
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2Monkey Spanner
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3Double Barrell
4691
4Nuclear Weapon
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5My Best Girl
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6Karate (aka I The Third)
1613
7Secret Weapon
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8Lonely Man Am I
1052
9On BroadWay
919
10Top Up Kids
773