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Leroy Sibbles, Earl Morgan and Barry Llewelyn first came together as “The Hep Ones” in 1965 in Kingston, Jamaica but they soon changed their name to “The Heptones”.
They recorded for the major Jamaican producers at the time, including Coxsone Dodd of Studio One fame. The Heptones had a number of Jamaican hits for Studio One, including “Pretty Looks Isn’t All”, “Fattie Fattie” and “I Hold the Handle.” They went on to record with Joe Gibbs, Harry J (Harry Johnson), and Rupie Edwards. In 1977, they recorded “Party Time” for Lee Perry, one of Perry’s finest productions, which included a version of Bob Dylan’s “I Shall Be Released.”

Sibbles left the group in 1977 to start a successful solo career. He was replaced by Naggo Morris. After Sibbles left, the group’s popularity waned. The original trio reunited in 1995 and released Pressure! produced by Tappa Zukie

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Yuriamin wrote:
July 2009

Group Studio One http://www.lastfm.com.br/group/Studio1

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blueyz wrote:
July 2009

ive had years of pure enjoyment fom this group, hard to name a fav track, but up there would be "the meaning of life, party time,break up to make up, suffering so. book of rules. equal rights," i,ll never tire of " the heptones"...........ever

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Zamza-Abadede wrote:
June 2009

please share "cool rasta" lyrics!

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Zamza-Abadede wrote:
June 2009

magnificent!

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Conradub wrote:
June 2009

harmony and good vibrations

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tame1999 wrote:
May 2009

massive massive band. anyone know where to get a recording of 'Mystery Babylon' without the 3 minutes of dub at the end?

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fredxmertz wrote:
March 2009

POW!

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thiburcegeraldo wrote:
February 2009

COOL RASTA COOL

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BS-Pedro wrote:
February 2009

love jah!

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OdedFriedGaon wrote:
January 2009

Fantastic kings of harmony

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charliedub1 wrote:
November 2008

Loved this,it's been a long time since i heard last,

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formij wrote:
September 2008

to all the freind i knew in the 60/70 thats when reggae was.big up to mucic citiy when it first came to kensal rise.long live the old school.

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BlindWilliam wrote:
September 2008

son, I ain't got no food today tit for tat, butter for fish there's a little porridge in the dish

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Crapon wrote:
July 2008

fore de zucca sto last!

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vaportrailmark wrote:
June 2008

Before we're cold.. we haffa live some life!!! Nice words to live by..

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runabeat wrote:
May 2008

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balzadelia wrote:
May 2008

waka waka de wak wak

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ojones12 wrote:
May 2008

country boy just makes me wanna jam

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blueyz wrote:
January 2008

hey i forgot,include in the shout below,,,,another great track suffering so,,

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blueyz wrote:
January 2008

dunno bout lp,s but,book of rules,equal rights,hypocrites,make up to break up,meaning of life,oil my lamp,heptones gonna fight,suffers time,tripe girl,and theyre 1st version of party time, would be amongst my top tracks by them,,and my heptones ,university of dub cd,brilliant,

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