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Dr Alimantado, born Winston Thompson, also known as The Ital Surgeon (Kingston, 1952-) is a Jamaican reggae singer, DJ and producer.
He started to record very young under various names (Prince Winston, Winston Cool or Youth Winston). He mainly met success in the mid to late 1970s, with his best known album being Best Dressed Chicken in Town (1978), a Greensleeves Records collection of tracks recorded in the mid-70s, featuring Alimantado toasting over singers such as John Holt, Gregory Isaacs, Jackie Edwards and Horace Andy. Alimantado became popular with punk rockers in the ’70s following Johnny Rotten praising him in an interview. He was mentioned in The Clash song Rudie Can’t Fail in the line “Like the doctor who was born for a purpose”.
Alimantado’s biggest hits were “A Place Called Africa” and “Born for a Purpose”.
He started to record very young under various names (Prince Winston, Winston Cool or Youth Winston). He mainly met success in the mid to late 1970s, with his best known album being Best Dressed Chicken in Town (1978), a Greensleeves Records collection of tracks recorded in the mid-70s, featuring Alimantado toasting over singers such as John Holt, Gregory Isaacs, Jackie Edwards and Horace Andy. Alimantado became popular with punk rockers in the ’70s following Johnny Rotten praising him in an interview. He was mentioned in The Clash song Rudie Can’t Fail in the line “Like the doctor who was born for a purpose”.
Alimantado’s biggest hits were “A Place Called Africa” and “Born for a Purpose”.
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Best Dressed Chicken In Town
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Born for a Purpose
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King's Bread
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voodoo-jonesy wrote:
Every hour on the hour
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Lemur1989 wrote:
12 o'clock natty
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Omonk wrote:
What de time you have de dread? 12 o clock natty!
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thirdprofile wrote:
best dub i've ever heard, just amazing
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ocbeejay wrote:
free download here!! http://impossiblecity.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/12/
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robbytuck wrote:
most men want to be mechanicals I would say.....
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robotpwnsyou wrote:
great stuff mon
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Killed-By-Death wrote:
Just discoverd this guy. Awesome!!!
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saelynh wrote:
http://www.last.fm/music/Saelynh
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SmilinSkullRing wrote:
Poison Flour should be higher than number 8.
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SmilinSkullRing wrote:
Can anyone hook me up with some music from this guy? I would love to hear Poison Flour and Born for a Purpose especially.
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jvglion wrote:
Why'd he shoot the barber?
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qaeonic3 wrote:
What else can I say? The best
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tucks wrote:
The best-a dressed-a chicken in-a town-a ...town-a....town-a...
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