The two signature songs of Barrington Levy blasted out of every shop and car window in Hackney for one summer in the mid-1980s.

By then reggae music had begun to be swept away by a new wave of digital rhythms known first as “ragga” and thenceforth as “dancehall.”

Driven by drum machines and cocaine, it left most of the Rastas behind in a cloud of sensi, along with their sleepy songs. Most of it left me behind too.

The exception to the rule was Barrington Levy.

A former child star who had made his name while still at school in the mid-1970s, he was only 15 when he recorded the peerless Englishman, which I posted here a year or two ago, followed by a cracking version of Horace Andy’s classic Skylarking.

When he grew up he had two of the biggest hits of the dancehall era, both produced by Jah Screw.

The first of them was Under Mi Sensi, in 1984, and the second, the following year, was the equally infectious Here I Come.

Both were big reggae hits but both missed out on the UK singles chart – this one by only one place, peaking at no.41.