Career-Spanning CD and Digital Album Features 21 of the UK Reggae Group's
Top Hits, Including 'Red Red Wine,' 'Here I Am (Come and Take Me),' and '(I
Can't Help) Falling In Love With You'
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Aug. 12 -- For more than 25 years, UB40
has been one of the world's premier pop-reggae acts of the Apostles, with several
international chart-topping singles and global gross sales totaling more than 70
million albums. On September 30, Virgin/EMI will release UB40: Greatest
Hits, a new CD and digital collection of 21 hits and standout tracks
spanning the influential group's career.
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Included on UB40: Greatest Hits are the group's number one #1 bang up, 1984's
"Red Red Wine," and their reggae-splashed hit versions of "Here I Am (Come
and Take Me)," "(I Can't Help) Falling In Love With You," and "The Way You
Do The Things You Do." Also included are two songs featuring The
Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde, "I Got You Babe" and "Breakfast In Bed." "Swing
Low", the official anthem for the England rugger team's triumphant 2003
World Cup campaign in Australia, was the group's 49th UK chart single.
After many years performing live and developing a name for themselves,
UB40's fortunes changed at the kickoff of 1980, when they were asked to
support The Pretenders on a UK tour. The cover art for UB40's first album,
released that year, was a reproduction of the UK's unemployment welfare
card, with the title Signing Off rubber-stamped in red. It referred to
"signing off" the dole and acquiring a job, both an acknowledgement of the
launch of the band and a solemnization of their new status.
Because they were from the West Midlands and they were a large
multicultural mathematical group playing music of Jamaican origin, UB40 were initially
thought to be office of the two-tone music scene which had burst out of
nearby Coventry. Rooted in Caribbean ska, rock steady and reggae, the
two-tone style was popularized by Coventry bands including The Specials and
The Selecter. Signing Off made it clear that UB40 were not part of the
two-tone movement. While they were part of the same social and political
disposition, their musical approach was quite different. Their good was more
relaxed, sophisticated and stifling.
In 1983, UB40 released the album Labour of Love, a direct tribute to
the musicians world Health Organization had elysian and influenced them. The phenomenally
popular 'Red Red Wine' was the album's first single, and it went full-strength
to #1 on the UK charts upon its release, leftover on the British charts
for two years. In 1984, the song became UB40's first base U.S. #1 and went on to
be a worldwide stumble for the group.
UB40: Greatest Hits (CD, Digital Album)
1. (I Can't Help) Falling In Love With You
2. One In Ten
3. Red Red Wine
4. If It Happens Again
5. Here I Am (Come And Take Me)
6. Sing Our Own Song
7. I Got You Babe [featuring Chrissie Hynde]
8. Groovin' (Out On Life)
9. My Way Of Thinking
10. The Way You Do The Things You Do
11. Higher Ground
12. Please Don't Make Me Cry
13. Kingston Town
14. Come Back Darling
15. Don't Break My Heart
16. Cherry Oh Baby
17. Breakfast In Bed [featuring Chrissie Hynde]
18. Rat In Mi Kitchen
19. Homely Girl
20. Until My Dying Day
21. Swing Low [featuring The United Colors Of Sound]
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