When I was in my late teens, immersed in dub sounds at the Four Aces club, one of my favourite Jamaican toasters was Ranking Trevor.

I love his flow and the way he freestyles around the original song’s lyric, and especially his trademark yelp at the end of a line.

And I love this tune – his take on Alton Ellis’s rocksteady classic that spawned Althea & Donna’s chart topping Uptown Top Ranking – in particular.

It/s a playful riposte to fellow toaster Trinity’s earlier version of that hit single, Three Piece Suit, and featured on a joint album produced by Bunny Lee, featuring both toasters backed by The Revolutionaries, with their all-time great rhythm section of Sly & Robbie, with Robbie Shakespeare providing the mesmeric bassline.

Back in the mid-to-late ’70s when I was discovering reggae music, Ranking Trevor frequently popped up on the B-side of the many Jamaican pre-release singles I bought – those ones with the middles missing – at a little shop beside the club on Dalston Lane.

Among their collaborations were Dennis Brown’s A Little Bit More and Linval Thompson’s Brown Skin Girl, as well as War with The Wailing Souls and Truly by The Jays – and Queen Majesty – as well as Cornell Campbell’s Queen Of The Minstrel, retitled Rub A Dub Style, with the great Leroy Sibbles of The Heptones on bass.

A particular favourite of mine was his version of Trod On from Culture’s classic album Two Sevens Clash, along with his reworking of The Abyssinians’ great tune Satta Massagana.

But the one that always stands out, probably because of its title, is one of his standalone tunes – Three Piece Chicken And Chips – and because I love the many previous versions by a who’s who of roots reggae including The Mighty Diamonds, Marcia Aitken and Hortense Ellis.