Harmony greats The Heptones helped put Coxsone Dodd’s legendary Studio One on the map as the home of Jamaican rocksteady and reggae.

Released way back in 1973 and rediscovered five years later through the Jamaican film Rockers, this early reggae standard sounds as fresh today as it did back then.

The equals of The Wailers and The Maytals back in the Sixties ska and rocksteady era, The Heptones helped put Coxsone Dodd’s legendary Studio One on the map in the early Seventies.

Leroy Sibbles lent his loping bassline signature to a number of the studio’s hits but it was after the trio left Coxsone and struck out to try their luck with rival producers like Joe Gibbs that this was a hit in 1973.

Recorded at Harry J’s Kingston Studios, this was one of their few songs that didn’t have Sibbles as lead singer – that role was taken by Barry Llewelyn here – and the lyrics are an adapation of an old Chrstian poem, with the melody influenced by a Glen Campbell tune.

Llewellyn, whose sweet voice lends a lightness that perfectly complements the playful piano melody, died in 2011 but despite falling out of fashion when the Rasta influence began to dominate reggae soon after this, The Heptones are still going strong today, with founder member Earl Morgan at the helm.