Floyd Lloyd - Better To Laugh Than To Cry

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Floyd Lloyd
Better To Laugh Than To Cry

Album UK 1982 on Vista Sounds label
Reggae (Roots Reggae)

Published By Fresh Air / Echo - A1 Tropic / Echo - A2, B2, B6 EMI Music Ltd. - A3 to B1, B3 to B5

Musicians

	Floyd Lloyd p, voc, key, *1948 JM piano, melodica, producer, album by, written by
	Avenger bass
	Palma Taylor b, bass
	The Alpha Boys Band brass band
	Derrick Stewart dr, drums
	Jah Bunny dr, perc, GB drums
	Jesse Green voc, eg, perc, b, *1948 JM drums
	Specs Bifirimbi dr, perc, drums
	Red Cloud , featuring
	Steve Gregory fl, ts, *1945 GB flute
	Lennox Gordon g, lead guitar
	Trevor Starr dr machine, dr, b, lead guitar
	Ervin "Allah" Lloyd voc, key, organ
	Sonny Binns org, key, organ
	Bongo Herman perc, JM percussion
	Peter Chemist , JM percussion
	Tomlin Mill rhythm guitar
	Chris Mercer ts, bs, saxophone
	Rico Rodriguez tb, 1934-2015 GB trombone

Producers

Chanter Sisters backing vocals

Andrew Cleven engineer

Ian Caple engineer

Lancelot "Maxie" McKenzie engineer

Phil Sharp engineer

Ruddy Thomas engineer

Sylvan Morris engineer

Lee Gopthal executive-producer

Composers

Floyd Lloyd

Len Bryan

Sheila O'Shea

K. Harris

Album Tracks

No	Title	Artist	Composer
1	Mr. Yoyo	Floyd Lloyd	Floyd Lloyd, Len Bryan
2	Long Hard Road	Floyd Lloyd	Floyd Lloyd, Sheila O'Shea
3	Soulful Lover Baby	Floyd Lloyd	Floyd Lloyd
4	Jah Jah Why	Floyd Lloyd	Floyd Lloyd
5	Babylon Shall	Floyd Lloyd	Floyd Lloyd, Sheila O'Shea
6	Rasta Rootsman	Floyd Lloyd	Floyd Lloyd
7	The City	Floyd Lloyd	Floyd Lloyd, Sheila O'Shea
8	Sentence	Floyd Lloyd	Floyd Lloyd, Sheila O'Shea
9	Rose	Floyd Lloyd	Floyd Lloyd
10	Something Gotta Change	Floyd Lloyd	K. Harris, Floyd Lloyd
11	Get Away	Floyd Lloyd	Floyd Lloyd
12	Mango Blue	Floyd Lloyd	Floyd Lloyd, Sheila O'Shea

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Acknowledgements

To all the music fans that are contributing on Discogs, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia. Thanks to Franz Flückiger for providing Storygram used to visualize band membership.

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