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Bim Sherman – Love Forever
When I left college, I got a summer job and a driver’s licence. I worked at the Pama, at the shop, where the boss had me ordering the tunes, selling them, running the place. The tunes that were coming in – I knew whether we could sell 50, 100, more on the Saturday. The first Bim Sherman came in, in 1975. I’d never heard anything like it – it had a Nat King Cole quality to it, it was so odd. The lyrics were thought provoking. The next year, Lloyd Coxsone released a compilation called Love Forever of all these great Bim Sherman 7-inches. And I’ve listened to that since forever. It’s been reissued various times with different tracks but that first edition on Tribesman was the one that encouraged me to bring him over here in the late 70s, where he worked with On-U Sound. He did all sorts of things, eventually, including an album of Indian music, which I also produced.
