Dave & Ansel Collins - Double barrel

[BronxSnc]

Dope.........................!­

[solusdiver]

I'm 12 years old again...but I remember the pace of the song being a little bit faster.

[littlejockey1000]

Barca99treble must have been at same Silcocks fair...was it Pendlebury!!!!!!! Also love your username. For some reason we played it at house we mobbed up for before games.

[stevewaugh2]

Great Song !

[overner2001]

Had not got a clue what he was on about but we teens loved this back in the 70s. I still not sure what he is singing about: but then I only found out recently that "Longshot kicked the bucket" was about a race horse!

[BruLc7]

Ah, to be young again.......

[MrDontwork]

love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hexonatapeloop]

So that's what a piano is for

[hexonatapeloop]

So this is what a piano is for

[1955pigot]

As a 16 y old i loved it and still do now in my mid 50s !

[mmmbad]

@1955pigot Me too!  I have the 45 rpm!

[Barca99treble]

This used to be played on the Waltzers/Speedway at Silcock`s travelling fair around Manchester in the early 1970`s. Great memories!!

[Adjei88]

Ed I'm the magnificent

[MONIIMONII]

Ahhh :D

my grandad used to play this in the back of the car when i was 6 years old and i used to be singing along and grooving wont ever forget that <3

im 15 now , my grandad still blasts out this song to my cousins now who are 2 and 4 soo there singing along and grooving !

[ranran19701]

A local AM deejay in Wilmington Delaware used to just use the "I am W.O.O.O!" part as his entre onto the air after a commercial!

[mikebt2000]

Classic!!!! Just love that crisp piano!!!

[MrKosmo72]

the kosmo club, broad street in bath, early 70's. ben sherman, levi staprest, harrington, brogues, dm's, crombie. best trend ever. we all wore it no matter WHAT creed or colour. all together. fab music, fab place, fab times x.

[hymnlover1]

Love this great oldie, thanks for posting.

[rocknroll448]

one of the frist singles .I got early days,still sounds great.

[Animaniacs11]

the beginning of reggae?

[charlesruiz2000]

this is a super bad ass song i love it

[LondonSB71]

oh oh oh ..............................­......

[HarryBaalz]

this iz great muzic if you axe me

[INdieghetto95]

this song proper reminds me of this is england.

fuuuckin skiinheaaaaaaaad!

[59Marmy]

Top sound 

[TheHujarse]

70tezskin..you're spot on :)

[70tezskin]

@noonyhead1 Great to here what you think about the old days .late 60s and early 70s skinheads and skinhead girls lived in the greatest era ever to be a teenager . The look that changed a generation.. the youth of today have no idea..... DM.S BEN SHERMAN.S LEVI.S BRACES........BROGUES . LOAFER.S . CROMBIES.. TWO TONE.S..FRED PERRY.S we looked fu??ing great.. SKINHEADS THE WORLD WOULD NEVER BE THE SAME....

[recordman4862]

1970 janet and I together .Good times

[noonyhead1]

@70tezskin they were the days mate, everything you said was the same in liverpool, we didnt give a toss about anything and skins stuck together no matter where they came from, CUM ON AMBROSE SLADE,happy days.

[kerouacshack]

The heavy heavy sounds of Dave and Ansel Collins 1972... Double Barrel. What a great song!!!

[valyuntbe]

Crombies,air-wair, ben shermans and trilbys..........and trying to dance like the blacks lol

[70tezskin]

@ gtfc I agree with every thing you say . I was 16 in1970 my skinhead days are a time i..ll never forget . the clothes the music .the late 60.s and early 70 s was the greatest ever time to be a teenager .....SKINHEADS THE WORLD WOULD NEVER BE THE SAME...

[galleybox]

they dont make it like this anymore,music has lost its soul!!!!

[jaymoe310569]

rude boys unity!!!!!!!!!!



[Pureteenlard]

Number 1 the day I was born . . .

[TheSHERT7]

sta press trousers brogues and ben shermans

[GTFC80]

Young ones of today haven't lived. It was great, and being a " true" skinhead of the late 60's early 70's in Grimsby was the proudest time of my life. Oh to do it all again. walking around wearing the "gear" was brill, we knew how to dress.

[superfastmikey]

great stuff,ur right 2days music total crap,

[MrStablelad]

We had so many happy days,, If only we could do it all again.

I feel so Sorry for the young one's of today.

[ryfaceply]

50's, 60's, and the 70's is where music played with instruments really bloomed. today its all auto-tune and done through a computer, half the people that sing you listen to cannot even sing live. The industry is a joke.

[floppybollox3]

@ryfaceply You got that right,bro!

[getyoursfree]

@lrd9999. It's a bit of Prince Buster's 007, parodied to be 0000!

[lrd9999]

From where did they get WOOO; they sound like eastern US call letters. Was that from growing up in Jamaica? Or maybe a pirate station aimed at the UK?

PS: Should "rocksteady" also be a tag for this? I thought that was the term for the transition from ska to reggae.

[jjmm112]

Tune!!- 5*!.

[colton422]

love the sample ..........Special Ed, "I am the Magnificent"

[04116404]

sad,,,,,but todays music is crap.....

[feilochai]

indeed! 2k music sucks dirty butthole and MTV doesn't play videos anymore

[glenndiator]

@04116404 Today´s music isn´t crap you just dont´t know where to look.

[glenndiator]

@04116404 listen to Gregor Salto feat Chappell - Your Friend its not old but its better than this one at least its a discussion.

[jimmyhayers]

@04116404 There is plenty of good music about just sadly nothing like this

[ElvisLivesUpstairs]

ACE *Dances

[sparkyspacechimp]

You thin baby....YOU T-H-I-N...absolutely f%$king brilliant......

[redredreds100]

Brings back memories of my crombie, sta press and ben sherman, southend, brighton, reggae, teds and football violence, way past that now, but those were great days,

[thecitizens]

brilliant

[HCDrulz0001]

W-O-O-O!!!!

[drumrastamongoose123]

work ,work ,work, work !

[CUZBUZ]

yow rudeboy!

[tes74]

THis is a tuuuuuuuneee!!!!! LOVE IT..so much i uploaded it myself... I just like to listen to it elsewhere it always sounds better !!! :)

[ItsRobsLife]

Great tune.

[JoinTheRejects]

AWESOME!!! COMES TO DANCIN!!!

[cth213]

picked this up on vinyl at a Berlin flea market for 50pppppppppppp!!!!!!......LOL.­......class!!!!!!

[mrsydbarret]

yeh a trully class song

[sparkyspacechimp]

F%$KIN GENIUS!!

[nailclippers3]

Yeah i was listening to satellite radio on a road trip last week and kasey kasem was on and playing the top 40 of 1971 and this came on,jesus i damn near went off the road i was so excited to hear it.I remember hearing it for the first time around 77-78,and didnt know it came out in 71,cewl man i like it.

[tigermoth13]

i think i still have this single in the loft and im sure it's 1969 when i bought it

[bertwindon]

@tigermoth13 That is bizarre ! because I always think of '69, but another comment says '71. So maybe my head isn't as faded-out as I had thought - or maybe it is!

[lilmonkigal]

i've been trying to find this song for forty years - didn't know the artist or title - was starting to think i was nuts. thanks so much for posting.

[shaffran]

Same here -- exactly!

[blantonj00]

same exact thing for me - think I heard this in April '71 and finally found it again today - all I remembered was I am the magnificent wooo

[ronald2394]

titanus49......Try a track called TAKE ME OVER by STEPHENIE McKAY on Utube. It is a mix of this track. You will love it

[DodgeDriverFFS]

listend to it NO comparison, actually she sounds BLOODY AWEFUL dave and ansel are TOP class compared to this hackwork wench, sorry shes shyte

[titanus49]

Love,love ,love and love forever this absolute classic,this is a worm in my head,constantly repeating itself ,in my brain,someone please shoot me before I go mad,I am too much in love,with this

[wb5oxq]

Dave Barker (born David John Crooks, 10 October 1947 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a session vocalist[1], and Ansell Collins (born 1949, also in Kingston) is a keyboard player.[2] They were working for producer Lee "Scratch" Perry in Kingston in the late 1960s, and joined forces in 1971, for the ska single "Double Barrel". Released by Techniques Records, part of the Trojan Records label, it topped the Jamaican and UK charts in March of that year.[

[grfcc]

shed,ron harris,stapress,ben sherman,

[emben1960]

happy days

[carlosmorenor]

que musica tan chingona wuuuaaauu

[fastercarl]

i heard it in 1958,

[wayne109]

my ringtone

[JunkyardScientists]

BOOM what a Choon...The Magnificent W.O.O.O, ..Wooo

OKay 1968 is the earliest some ones heard this tune on this page..I lay down the gauntlet..can anyone beat this?...So sayeth the munki

[ezekielthemack]

What a choooooooooon!!! Takes me back to my days as a yout' (I'm a 41). A consummate classic!! I defy ANYBODY not to move to this one.

[BogBreather]

I remember this when only vinyl was around not even tape!! Classic.

[mikael0664]

hey bro i was 7 years old!!!

I so happy... thanks for posting.

[1990Magic]

I love this jam.

[nellie707]

this is still the joint!!! word on the street is Dave Barker(the magnificent) just recorded a song with flex1 from Ladbroke Groves Mighty Ethnicz(any rydim-Tuff gong,harmony hall-Laylow records..)this should be interesting.any one heard it? we waitin.

[sierracuban]

I thought that I had dreamed up this song, it was on my mind since 1971.( I was turning 18 )

I only heard it for about a week in Los Angeles radio in the spring of that year, as I drove back and forth to Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach from Huntington Park

in those classic surfer days....GREAT memories......I thought I would never hear this again, especially at age 54... Incredible what the internet can acomplish...Sierra Cuban, Miami, Florida

[mrfundah]

all u oldies lol im 17 n loving this tune

[urbanguerilla93]

@mrfundah

ME TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ItzAllAboutDaMusiccc]

@mrfundah Lol Same Here, This Track Is Cheeeezzzeee :D <3 Itt

[hempknight712]

cant believe i could find this, thankyou

[pearldrummer91205]

A fine example of reggae rhythm and pioneering rap lyrical styling. This brings back 1971 memories of listening to the radio while driving down some lonesome, two-lane, state highway with the setting sun flickering through the trees.

[schrodingercat91]

Oh my God, I haven't heard this since 1968, when I bought the vinyl record album of this.

Lost it years ago. What fun to hear it 40 years later

Thanks a million.

[alien8ted]

Too much, I like it!!

[foreverproof]

I remembered this song (Title) since it came out back in the 70's, thanks to the internet I have found it once again. That is over 35 years of remembering a song title from hearing only once on AM radio on a Saturday morning with Kasey Kasem top 20 countdown.

[tigermoth13]

at last , good sound repro .