Unity Records - Part 3.

UN524(1) Slim Smith - Sunny Side Of The Sea. Another solid tune from Slim with Bunny Lee at the controls. Released on Jamaican Unity too. This was later re-issued by Trojan on their Explosion label in 1973 (crediting Slim alongside Dennis Alcapone but it was the original cut without the DJ).
UN524(2) Slim Smith - Place In The Sun.
A Bunny Lee production, this is Slim's take on Stevie Wonder's Motown hit from 1967. Apparently using the same rhythm track that first saw issue on David Issacs superior cut for Lee Perry. The Palmer Brothers must have liked this tune as they issued it three times with releases on Bullet and Pama Supreme alongside the first outing on Unity.

UN525(1) Peter Tosh - The Return Of Al Capone. Peter Tosh always seems to turn up as Peter Touch on Pama releases. This was one of his more listenable organ instrumentals, he was no Jackie Mittoo though. The producer on this is unclear though itcould be Bunny or even Tosh himself.
UN524(2) Lennox Brown - Q Club. Clumsily credited to Lenex Brown on the label, a saxaphone instrumental over a repetitive bass driven rhythm. This tune takes it's title from Count Suckle's West London night club of the same name (see also Q records).

UN526(1) Ranny Williams - Pepper Seed. An infectious organ and Percussion based version of Pat Kell'y second big hit for Bunny Lee, If It Don't Work Out. Credited to the Spokes on the Jamaican blank issue this is supposedly a Niney production, if so he must have begged, borrowed or stolen the rhythm track from Bunny Lee.
UN526(2) Ranny Williams - Ambitious Beggar. This time a piano shadows the the organ lead. It sounds like a Peter Tosh effort though it can't be as Tosh's organ skills were exposed in the next cut, Sellasie Serenade, on Bullet.

UN527(1) Slim Smith And The Uniques - Blessed Are The Meek. AKA The Beatitude. A reissue from Island records the year before. A beautiful and haunting Rocksteady tune.
UN527(2) Slim Smith And The Uniques - My Conversation. Another reissue from Island, perhaps the Uniques biggest tune. This was released for a second time by Pama on their Escort label in 1971 using the Unity stampers.

UN528(1) The Hippy Boys - Dreams To Remember. An organ instrumental cut of the Wet Dream/Hold You Jack rhythm.
UN528(2) The Hippy Boys - Peace Maker. A saxophone lead instrumental cut to My Coversation by the Uniques.

UN529(1) Peter Tosh - Sun Valley. Peter Tosh makes funny noises on the organ over the Everbody Needs Love rhythm. Scary. Tosh said that the organ instrumentals were recorded at Randys and were more practicing than recordings intended for release. Though the backing track is Bunny Lee's it's not clear if he had any involvement in this release.
UN529(2) Headley Bennett - Drums Of Fu-Manchu. The On Broadway rhythm once again.

UN530(1) The Reggae Boys - What You Gonna Do. A superior vocal cut of the Wet Dream/Hold You Jack rhythm. This seems to be another of the great records that Bunny Lee carried straight to the UK and never issued in Jamaica.
UN530(2) Headley Bennett - Hot Coffee. A quality jazz influenced sax solo from the Sound Dimension man.

UN531(1) Lester Stirling - Lonesome Feeling. Lester Stirling blows the Righteous Brothers You've Lost That Loving Feeling over an uninspired chugging rhythm track.
UN531(2) Lester Stirling - Bright As A Rose. A reissue from UN512

UN532(1) Max Romeo - Mini Skirt Vision. Following on from the success of Wet Dream Max does a thing about Mini Skirts. "If the bend bend bend, you see there rear end..." probably another tune Max would rather forget about. A UK production.
UN532(2) Max Romeo - Far Far Away. A ballad that showed up on the A Dream LP.

UN533(1) Bunny Lee All Stars - Hook Up. An organ cut of the Everybody Needs Love rhythm (the organ from the original has been removed though the bass line gives it away). Possibly Jackie Mittoo on the organ?
UN533(2) Bunny Lee All Stars - Full Up. A saxaphone lead on an I unidentified rhythm.