Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (album)

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a reggae album and single by Black Uhuru. The album was first released under the title Showcase in 1979, then as a re-edition entitled Black Uhuru in 1980, with the addition of "Shine Eye Gal" (featuring a guest performance by Keith Richards on guitar), and with different mixes of the original LP tracks (some shorter, some longer.) The Guess Who's Coming to Dinner release, from 1983, is identical to the 1980 edition.[1]

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Studio album by
Released1983
RecordedMarch 1980
StudioChannel One Recording Studio, Kingston, Jamaica
GenreReggae, Dub
Length47:00
LabelVirgin
ProducerSly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare
Black Uhuru chronology
Chill Out
(1982)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
(1983)
Anthem
(1983)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]

The album was listed in the 1999 book The Rough Guide: Reggae: 100 Essential CDs.[2]

Track listing

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All tracks are written by Michael Rose; except where indicated

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Shine Eye Gal"Rose, Derrick "Duckie" Simpson7:36
2."Leaving to Zion" 5:30
3."General Penitentiary" 5:32
4."Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" 6:18
5."Abortion"Rose, Simpson7:25
6."Natural Reggae Beat" 8:12
7."Plastic Smile"Rose, Simpson7:10

Personnel

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Black Uhuru
The Revolutionaries

with:

Technical
  • Delroy Witter - producer on "Shine Eye Gal"
  • Sisan March - design
  • Deborah Feingold - photography

References

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  1. ^ a b Anderson, Rick. "Black Uhuru: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" at AllMusic. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
  2. ^ Barrow, Steve & Dalton, Peter (1999) Reggae: 100 Essential CDs, Rough Guides, ISBN 1-85828-567-4