Dennis Brown - Money In My Pocket/Joe Gibbs And The Professionals - Running Irie 12"

In 1979 there was a Saturday morning kids’ television show called The Saturday Morning Show. It was presented by an affable-seeming chap called Steve Jones, about whom it’s hard to do any deep internet research due to his Sex Pistols namesake. My favourite part of this show was ‘hit or miss’-type evaluation of some of the week’s new single releases, called ‘Keep or Heap’. This was where I first heard Money In My Pocket. I bought it on 12” that afternoon.

Unfortunately, I later swapped it for a plastic carrier bag full of porno mags with a kid from school, later replacing it via discogs.

This is Brown/Gibbs’ reworking of their 1972 tune, engineered by Errol Thompson and with added toasting by Prince Mohammed, neither of whom even get a credit. Brown’s vocals are as smooth as a real estate agent run through a Nutri-Bullet. The A side is a proper extended version, and the B side, Runnings Irie, finds Joe Gibbs and the Professionals smashing through the instrumental with gay abandon.

In hindsight, lovers rock was charging over the hill like a big sexy bull. But none of us knew it yet.

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