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Delroy Wilson


Delroy Wilson OD (5 October 1948 – 6 March 1995) was a Jamaican Ska, Rocksteady, Reggae singer. Born in Trench Town, Kingston, Jamaica, Wilson released his first single Emy Lou in 1961 for record producer, Clement Coxsone Dodd, at the age of thirteen. His early years with Coxsone yielded a number of ska hits, the biggest of which, the Lee Perry-written Joe Liges was an attack on rival producer and former Dodd employee Prince Buster. This was followed by another Perry-written attack on Buster, Spit in the Sky. Further singles followed, including One Two Three, I Shall Not Remove, Look Who Is Back Again (a duet with Slim Smith), and another anti-Buster song, Prince Pharaoh, notably the only record featuring the voice of Dodd himself. His voice matured as he left his teens, around the time of ska's transition to rocksteady and this period in the late 1960s produced many hits including one of the first rocksteady records, Dancing Mood, Jerk in Time (with the Wailers), Feel Good All Over, I'm Not a King, True Believer in Love, Rain From the Skies, Conquer Me and Riding For A Fall. Won't You Come Home, a duet with Ken Boothe on a rhythm originally cut by The Conquerors for Sonia Pottinger has become one of the most-versioned Jamaican tracks ever.[citation needed] After leaving Studio One he recorded for numerous other producers, with varying degrees of success, and set up his own short-lived W&C label along with Wilburn Cole, and the similarly-fated Links label with Ken Boothe, ...

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