Sly and Robbie Present Taxi
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| Released | 1981 | |||
| Genre | Reggae, pop | |||
| Label | Island | |||
| Producer | Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare | |||
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Sly and Robbie Present Taxi is an album by the Jamaican musical duo Sly and Robbie, released in 1981.[1][2] It was their first album as a credited duo, with many of the tracks first released on their Taxi record label.[3][4] Sly and Robbie Present Taxi is dedicated to the Jamaican musician General Echo, who was killed in 1980.[5]
Sly and Robbie recorded the drums and bass first, often tinkering with the tracks until they sounded as if they could have been created by a computer.[6] The duo had verbal agreements with most of the artists on their label, dividing with them whatever profits a song made and putting their share back in to recording.[6] The U.S. Mango release includes Sheila Hylton's cover of the Police's "The Bed's Too Big Without You" and omits Black Uhuru's "World Is Africa".[7] "Smiling Faces Sometimes" is a cover of the Undisputed Truth version of the Motown composition.[8] "My Woman's Love" was written by Curtis Mayfield.[7] General Echo's "Drunken Master" is a tribute to the martial arts film.[9]
