This song was all over the reggae clubs in 1978 and all over pop radio the following summer when it reached the giddy heights of no.46 in the UK singles chart. It’s one of the great reggae singles.

It’s got a killer rhythm and a satisfyingly squelchy ‘sponji reggae’ effect with producer Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry phasing the guitar (or is it a synth?) so that the melody seems to be melting – an effect heightened on his dub version where it switches from speaker to speaker.

But it’s all about the tune, and those sweet harmonies, from that golden age of reggae when vocal trios were all the fashion in Jamaica.

It’s a simple love song but the Jolly Brothers (not real brothers) manage to work a bit of biblical advice into the lyrics: “Solomon was wise but he couldn’t find the secret of a woman,” we are told, while his mate Samson was “deceived by a woman,” and we all know what happened to him after that haircut.

The trio’s career never really took off – this was their only big tune – but Conscious Man was re-released in 1993, which may be why it seems almost to have been ever-present in my musical mind.