No Man is an Island is the debut album from reggae

Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

 singer Dennis Brown

Dennis Brown

Dennis Emmanuel Brown was a Jamaican reggae singer. During his prolific career, which began in the late 1960s when he was aged eleven, he recorded more than 75 albums and was one of the major stars of lovers rock, a sub-genre of reggae...

. Recorded when Brown was aged between twelve and thirteen, during 1969 and 1970, it includes his debut single, a cover of The Impressions' hit "No Man is an Island", a song he had originally worked on with producer Derrick Harriott

Derrick Harriott

Derrick Harriott is a singer and record producer. He has produced recordings by Big Youth, Chariot Riders, The Chosen Few, Dennis Brown, The Ethiopians, Keith & Tex, The Kingstonians, Rudy Mills, Scotty, Sly & Revolutionaries, and Winston McAnuff.-Biography:As a student at Excelsior High School,...

, and eleven other tracks, all recorded during his time working for Clement "Coxsone" Dodd's Studio One label. The album was first issued circa 1972, by which time Brown had moved on from Studio One to work with other producers. The album features cover version

Cover version

In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...

s as well as original compositions by Brown, including "Created by the Father", which has been described as one of his most enduring compositions, and "Make it Easy on Yourself".

Tracklisting

1. "No Man Is An Island"
2. "Going To A Ball"
3. "I Love You Madly"
4. "Rain Drops Keep Falling
   Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
   "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" is B. J. Thomas's #1 song, written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach for the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It won an Academy Award for Best Original Song. David and Bacharach also won Best Original Score. It was recorded in seven takes, after...
   
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5. "Created By The Father"
6. "I Have Got To Go"
7. "I'll Never Fall In Love"
8. "Make It Easy On Yourself"
9. "Your Love Is Amazing"
10. "I Need Someone"
11. "Something Bugging Me"
12. "God Bless The Children"

External links

• No Man is an Island at Roots Archives