Lloyd Clarke & Duke Reid & His Group

With his warm tenor and expressive delivery, Lloyd Clarke was a born singer, although he was to find little financial reward for his efforts. Cutting his first song in 1960, Clarke released a string of singles over the course of the decade, still much sought after by fans and collectors. With no album to his name, however, the singer's name and fame have diminished over the years, barely helped by the paucity of his numbers that have been scattered across compilations. Clarke was born in 1937, in Linstead Saint Catherine, Jamaica; however, his family moved to the Trench Town n...