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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

Track: Monkey Spanner

Most Played Tracks as Scrobbled to Last.fm

# Title Plays
1Double Barrel
138240
2Monkey Spanner
42843
3Double Barrell
4710
4Nuclear Weapon
3056
5My Best Girl
2483
6Karate (aka I The Third)
1619
7Secret Weapon
1173
8Lonely Man Am I
1053
9On BroadWay
935
10Top Up Kids
776

Other Album Releases:

Double Barrel
Reggae Anthology: Winston Riley - Quintessential Techniques

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