Please e-mail additions and corrections to Carter Van Pelt -- cvanpelt@inetnebr.com The Abyssinians Donald Manning, Linford Manning, Bernard Collins Albums: Arise Blue Moon Productions France 1990 Oh Lord (D Manning) This Land Is For Everyone (Collins) Mightiest Of All (L Manning) Meditation (D Manning) Wicked Men a.k.a. Leggo Beast (Collins) Jah Loves (L Manning) Dem A Come (D Manning) South African Enlistment (Collins) Hey You (L Manning) Let My Days Be Long (Collins) Foward To Zion (Satta Massagana) Blue Moon Productions France 1989 Heartbeat Records US 1994 Produced by Clive Azul Hunt 1976 Declaration Of Rights (Collins) Good Lord (D Manning, Mortimor Planner) Forward To Zion (Collins) Know Jah Today (Collins) Abendigo (L Manning) Yi Mas Gan (L Manning) Black Man Strain (B Collins) I & I (L Manning) African Race (D Manning) Satta Massagana (Collins, L&D Manning) Note: When this was issued by Heartbeat in the U.S., it was titled Satta Massagana and had four extra tracks, Leggo Beast, Peculiar Number, Reason Time, and ??? Forward Alligator U.S. 1982 Clinch JA 1988 Forward Jah (Collins) Prophesy (Collins) This Is Not The End (L Manning) Satta Massagana (D & L Manning, Collins) Mabrak (D & L Manning, Collins) Forward Onto Zion (Collins) Praise Him (Collins) Peculiar Number (D Manning) Peculiar Dub (D Manning) Jerusalem (D Manning) Best Of The Abyssinians Musidisc 111922 France 1994 Leggo Beast (Collins, 1972) Let's My Days Be Long (Collins, 1971) Satta-Amassa-Gana (Collins, D Manning, 1969) Jason White (D Manning, 1976 ) Reason Time (L Manning, 1972) Creshie Sweeps (Collins, 1974) Jerusalem (Collins, D & L Manning, 1969) Satta-Me-No-Born-Ya (Collins, 1976) Love Comes And Goes (Collins, 1976) Tenayistillin (L Manning, 1976) 19.95 + Tax USA 1996 Come Along (L Manning) Do Good (D Manning) Ethiopia (D Manning) Power Over Evil (D Manning) Arise (L Manning) Holy Man (D Manning) Wolves (L Manning) Child Abuse (D Manning) Smokey Joe (L D Manning) In A Kalda (D Manning) Kalda (version) 19.95 + Tax (D Manning) A No So (D Manning) The Right (Abba) Singles: African Princess/Version MM11620A/MML1620B Crashey Sweeps/Socialisem(Dillinger) BC1930A/BC1930B Decraration Of Rights/Version CR-2802-A/7253-1 Forward Jah/Version BC-7828-A/BC-7828-B Good Lord/Version BC-DM-3326A/BC-DM-3326B Last Days/Version MML1373-A/MML1373B Let My Days Be Long/Version DSR-LM-4563-1/7AB-7770-B Leggo Beast/Version 7AB-7983-A/7AB-7983-B Mabrak/Issat Version BC4056-1/BC4057-1 Poor Jason White/Version DSR-LM4564-1/DSR-LM-4565-1 Prophecy/Version BC-3633-A/BC-3633-B Satta Massagana/Charming Version CR2851-A/CR2853-B Satta Amassa Gana/Version BC78677A/CR2853-B Satta Me No BurnYa/Version BC1804/BC3769 This Land For Everyone/Version DSR6743-A/DSR6744-B Other Singles: >Abyssinians - Declaration Of Rights Coxsone 7" 1970 > Jerusalem Music City 7" ?? > Mabrak Music City 7" ?? > Satta A Massa Gana Music City 7" ?? |> These last three were all relesed in JA on the group's own Clinch |> record label, althougyh Jerusalem is most commonly found with a blank |> label. Some of these balnks may be stamped "Muzik City" (Coxsone's |> label) but they were not released by Coxsone, even though the tracks |> were originally recorded at his studio. Also "Yim-Mas-Gan" was |> released on 7" on Lloyd Daley's Secret Agent label, around 1974 I |> think... also on that label was the DJ cut by Big Joe, "Mas Gan". Satta deejay cuts: Swing Low/Buck You Toe MML1621A/MML1621B Big Youth: I Pay Thee/Dreader Than Dread BC5128A/BC51288B Dillinger: I Saw Esaw/Version BC-3519-A/BC-3769-B Tommy McCook: Mandella/Tennayistilen(The Abbysinians) CR-2688-B/CR-2688-A Satta Massagana deejay version, etc. Cool It - Tony Tough Dreader Than Dread - Big Youth * I Saw E Saw - Dillinger * I Pray Thee - Big Youth * Mabrak - Abyssinians * Mandela - Tommy McCook * Night In Ethiopia - Jackie Mittoo |> The above are not all DJ versions. Cool It is a new vocal over the (Studio |> One) recut Satta rhythm; Mabrak is an alternative vocal mix by the |> Abyssinians; Mandela and Night In Ethiopia are both instrumental versions |> of the Satta rhythm (Mandela on the original rhythm and Night In Ethiopia |> on the recut). Those marked * are Clinch productions, the others are Dodd |> productions.