Here’s a vocal version I’ve never heard of my all-time favourite reggae tune, the title track of Augustus Pablo’s album King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown.

Released back in 1976, that was King Tubby’s dub version of a tune from two years earlier by Jacob Miller called Baby I Love You So, also produced by Pablo.

This vocal version by George Nooks, was released on a various artists compilation album in 1980, but probably recorded some time earlier, and released on King Tubby’s label.

It uses the same riddim, and I’m guessing it’s the same backing track, recorded by drummer Carlton Barrett, bassists Robbie Shakespeare and Aston Barrett, guitarist Earl ‘Chinna’ Smith and Pablo playing his trademark melodica.

Nooks, while not quite a household name, is better known as a deejay – as his alter ego Prince Mohammed – most notably for his toasting on Dennis Brown’s classic Money In My Pocket in 1978.

Nooks/Mohammed also recorded other tunes with Dennis and Joe Gibbs including Light Up My Spliff and How Can I Leave You and guested on Give Up The Land by Horace Andy, and I’m In The Mood For Love by Pat Kelly.

Curiously, he had his biggest success since those days in 2025 with a cover of Little Green Apples in tribute to his old pal and soundalike Dennis Brown.