Rock Steady With Flo & Eddie
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Rock Steady With Flo & Eddie was Flo & Eddie
's last album as a duo, a strait-laced collection of reggae
songs recorded at Bob Marley
's Tuff Gong Studios in Kingston
, Jamaica
, including a remake of the 1967 Turtles
hit "Happy Together
." The album was released in 1981. According to Allmusic, the album was later re-released under the title Prince Flo & Jah Edward I.
Flo & Eddie
Flo & Eddie are a comedic musical duo.The two were the original founding members of the Top 40 rock group the Turtles. After the Turtles dissolved, Volman and Kaylan first joined the Mothers of Invention as "Phlorescent Leech & Eddie"...
's last album as a duo, a strait-laced collection of 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...
songs recorded at Bob Marley
Bob Marley
Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley, OM was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and reggae band Bob Marley & The Wailers...
's Tuff Gong Studios in Kingston
Kingston, Jamaica
Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island...
, Jamaica
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
, including a remake of the 1967 Turtles
The Turtles
The Turtles are an American rock group led by vocalists Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman. The band became notable for several Top 40 hits beginning with its cover version of Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe" in 1965...
hit "Happy Together
Happy Together (song)
"Happy Together" is a 1967 song from The Turtles' album of the same name. Released in February 1967, the song knocked The Beatles' "Penny Lane" out of the #1 slot for three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. It was the group's only chart-topper. "Happy Together" reached #12 on the UK Singles Chart in...
." The album was released in 1981. According to Allmusic, the album was later re-released under the title Prince Flo & Jah Edward I.
Track listing
- "Prisoner of Love" — 3:58
- "Swing and Dine" — 3:21
- "Stop" — 2:12
- "Moving Away" — 3:19
- "Pearl" — 3:32
- "Dancing Mood" — 3:11
- "Party Time" — 3:05
- "Sitting in the Park" — 3:10
- "Rock With Me" — 3:01
- "Those Guys" — 3:14
- "Just Like A River" — 3:16
- "Happy TogetherHappy Together (song)"Happy Together" is a 1967 song from The Turtles' album of the same name. Released in February 1967, the song knocked The Beatles' "Penny Lane" out of the #1 slot for three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. It was the group's only chart-topper. "Happy Together" reached #12 on the UK Singles Chart in...
" — 2:31
Personnel
- Mark "Flo" Volman, Howard "Eddie" Kaylan - vocals
- Earl "Chinna" Smith - guitar
- Albert Wing, Dean FraserDean FraserDean Fraser is a Jamaican saxophonist who has contributed to hundreds of reggae recordings since the mid-1970s. He was awarded the Musgrave Medal by the Jamaican government in 1993 in recognition of his services to music.-Biography:Fraser started to play the clarinet at the age of 12...
, Enroy "Tenor" Grant - saxophone - Walt Fowler - trombone
- Augustus PabloAugustus PabloHorace Swaby , known as Augustus Pablo, was a Jamaican roots reggae and dub record producer, melodica player and keyboardist, active from the 1970s onwards. He popularized the use of the melodica in reggae music...
, Lelsie "Professor" Butler - piano, organ - Phil Ramocon - Fender Rhodes
- Aston "Family Man" BarrettAston BarrettAston Barrett , often called "Family Man" or "Fams" for short, is a Jamaican bass player and Rastafarian.-Biography:...
- bass - Carlton "Santa" Davis - drums
- Uziah "Sticky" ThompsonUziah ThompsonUziah "Sticky" Thompson is a Jamaican percussionist, vocalist and deejay active since the late 1950s. He has worked with some of the best known performers of Jamaican music and played on hundreds of albums.-Biography:...
- percussion