{"product_id":"alton-ellis-mr-soul-of-jamaica","title":"Alton Ellis – Mr Soul Of Jamaica","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlong with Ellis’s \u003cem\u003eSunday Coming\u003c\/em\u003e for Coxsone Records, \u003cem\u003eMr. Soul of Jamaica\u003c\/em\u003eestablished the rocksteady pioneer as one of the Caribbean island’s premier soul artists. Though the album features a few original compositions, it’s Ellis’s tackling of American R\u0026amp;B tunes that proved timeless.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncluded was “You Make Me Happy,” a cover of Brenda Holloway’s “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy” that became classic enough to warrant a mid-’70s re-edit with U-Roy protégé Ranking Trevor’s rub-a-dubs. Likewise, Ellis cut one of the definitive Jamaican versions of Johnnie Taylor’s 1966 hit for Stax Records, “Ain’t That Loving You (For More Reasons Than One).”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHowever, few of Ellis’s R\u0026amp;B recordings top his version of Jr. Walker’s “What Does It Take (To Win Your Love),” a song whose own history was serendipitous before ever landing at Duke Reid’s Bond Street studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe song was originally cowritten and produced by Harvey Fuqua for the Motown subsidiary Soul. Walker thought it would make a strong single, but, as lore has it, Motown didn’t see the light until radio DJs began playing the song off of the LP. Once the label gave it a proper single release, it ended up becoming Walker’s biggest hit with the All-Stars.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"kingslandrecords","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60194174992718,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1058\/3474\/2094\/files\/e1ea5f_bfd53223a5404cc98db845db56b6342a_mv2.jpg?v=1784734928","url":"https:\/\/www.kingslandrecords.com\/products\/alton-ellis-mr-soul-of-jamaica","provider":"Kingsland Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}