General Article name: Boat to Progress!: The Original Pantomime Vocal Collection 1970-1974
Genre: Reggae Product type: LP (Vinyl) Label: GREENSLEEVES Number of tracks: 14 Tracklist LP - 1 1. Glen Brown / Richard McDonald - Realize 2. Roman Stewart - Never Too Young to Learn 3. Ian Gardiner - Father's Call 4. Richard McDonald - Do Your Thing 5. Glen Brown - Take a Step 6. Glen Brown - Tell It Like It Is 7. Keith Poppin - Get Together 8. Gregory Isaacs - One One Coco 9. Glen Brown / Richard McDonald - Boat to Progress 10. Johnny Clarke - You Really Got a Hold on Me 11. Tinga Stewart - Brand New Me 12. Glen Brown / Lloyd Parks - I'm Your Puppet 13. Glen Brown - Away With the Bad Forward the Good 14. Glen Brown / Glenroy Richards - Save Our Nation   Description Description

This disc, a companion volume to Dubble Attack and Check the Winner by the same artist/producer, showcases a variety of top-notch reggae singers making good use of Glen Brown's rhythms. Not everyone makes equally good use of them, however -- Roman Stewart's "Never Too Young to Learn" is uncharacteristically mediocre -- but the high points, which include "One One Cocoa" by Gregory Isaacs and Little Roy's exquisite "Father's Call," are so good that it's easy to forget the occasional slight lapse in quality. On "Realize," which is based on the "Dirty Harry" rhythm and features a vocal duet between Glen Brown and Ritchie McDonald, the quavery minor-key vocal line is hair-raising; Johnny Clarke's rendition of "Really Gotta Hold on Me" shows the singer at his sweet-voiced best; "Brand New Me" featuring the relatively obscure Tinga Stewart is a wonderful, weepy love ballad. Essential. ~ Rick Anderson

Rick Anderson

Contributors Artist: Glen Brown Record Label: VP Records