I had to post these. Not because they're all that good, in fact they're not my bag at all. They're just reggae-lite related oddballs. I consider neither real reggae. The first is a seventeen minute cover of the Temptation' "My Girl" by jazz flutist Herbie Mann with Albert Lee and Mick Taylor on guitar, backed by the Tommy McCook Band. McCook was a legendary sax player springing forth from the Skatalites. So what you have is a jazz dude, a guy fresh out of the Stones and a reggae bona fide doing Motown. The other song is an Otis Redding cover by a reggae singer inna disco stylee. Judy Mowatt (seen above) was. one of the I-Threes, a vocal trio that backed Bob Marley (also including Rita Marley and Marcia Griffith). She later tried to crossover by doing some sort of disco reggae hybrid, not unlike Sly and Robbie's evolution around that time, that syn-drum bullshit. But she has a great voice and is better looking than Herbie Mann.
Herbie Mann - My Girl mp3 at Internet Archive
Judy Mowatt - Try A Little Tenderness mp3 at Internet Archive
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Yeah, Tom, nah... they say the best thing about a flute is how relatively easy it is to insert into said player's colon before being kicked out the door...
very few tracks survive a flute... maybe 'Spill the Wine' but only just...
Oh holy shit, please don't use that as even a "maybe" acceptable use of flute. "There I was, a long haired leaping gnome..."?? I hated that song, Eric Burdon's worst moment. I'm not pro-flute but there is one flutist that eased by objections, Jeremy Steig.:
https://ladimensiondetrastos.blogspot.com/2020/01/goddamn-flute-howd-you-get-in-here.html
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