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The Jackson Sisters recorded a cover of the song in 1976 for their eponymous album. In 1987, a house version of the song was recorded by singer Dalis and released on Trax Records. Patti Austin covered the song on her 1994 album That Secret Place. Prince released a version on his 2007 live album, Indigo Nights. The song features Beverley Knight.
Psalm 95 is the 95th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation". The Book of Psalms starts the third section of the Hebrew Bible , and, as such, is a book of the Christian Old Testament .
A re-recorded version of the instrumental from this song was used on Kylie Minogue's song "Look My Way" from her debut album Kylie (1988). [13] The actual instrumental from "Rock Steady" was sampled in the truncated version of "Look My Way" that appeared on Minogue's 1993 remix album Kylie's Non-Stop History 50+1.
Ainsworth Roy Rushton Shirley (18 July 1944 – July 2008), better known simply as Roy Shirley, and also known as King Roy Shirley and The High Priest, was a Jamaican singer whose career spanned the ska, rocksteady and reggae eras, and whose "Hold Them" is regarded by some as the first ever rocksteady song.
The song was released by Parlophone on 6 November 2006. All Saints collaborated with Kurstin on a number of songs; six were chosen for the album. "Rock Steady" was released as the first single from it. The song contains prominent 2 tone, dance-pop, reggae fusion, rocksteady and ska musical characteristics. It is lyrically influenced by the ...
For example, the song begins with the heavens who say, "the heavens speak of the glory of God, and of His handiwork the skies tell." ( Psalms 19:2 ) Others describe some characteristic or activity of the speaker, e.g., the book ends with the dogs who say "come, let us prostrate and bend our knees, and kneel before God our maker" ( Psalms 95:6 ).
Some of the band as well as Jerry Dammers wanted "The Boiler", which was the first song the band had written, to be recorded and released as their debut single. However, 2 Tone's parent company Chrysalis pressured the band into releasing the more commercial "Let's Do Rock Steady", which was released at the end of February to coincide with the ...
Horatious Adolphus "Pat" Kelly (6 August 1944 – 16 July 2019) [1] was a prolific, influential Jamaican rocksteady and reggae singer and innovative, groundbreaking sound engineer working with King Tubby, Bunny Lee and Scientist (musician), whose career began in the mid-1960s. [2]