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. Two singles, " Night Nurse" and "

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", both

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s, charted in the UK, reaching numbers 13 and 94 respectively.

Reception

Track listing

# "Friday" (Dunbar, Robert Lyn, Shakespeare, Lloyd Willis) – 3:57 # " Night Nurse" (

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, Sylvester Wiese) – 3:52 # "Seems to Me I'm Losing" (Dobby Dobson) – 3:39 # "Only a Smile" ( John Holt) – 3:37 # "

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" ( Cole Porter) – 4:00 # "

" (Harvey Ritchie, Lionel Richie) – 3:55 # "Theme from Mission: Impossible" ( Lalo Schifrin) – 3:59 # "Candy Girl" (Dunbar, Danny Madden, Handel Tucker, Lloyd Willis) – 4:03 # "Ghetto Girl" (

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) – 3:50 # " All This Love" (

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) – 4:02 # "Shoulder to Cry On" (Gary Benson, Winston Sela) – 4:55 # " (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (

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) – 4:00 # "Night Nurse" (

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Radio Mix) (Gregory Isaacs, Sylvester Wiese) – 3:37 # "Friday" (Street Mix) (Dunbar, Robert Lyn, Shakespeare, Lloyd Willis) – 4:04 # "Candy Girl" (Street Mix) (Dunbar, Madden, Handel Tucker, Lloyd Willis) – 4:05

Personnel

Robbie Shakespeare Robert Warren Dale Shakespeare (27 September 1953 – 8 December 2021) was a Jamaican bass guitarist and record producer, best known as half of the reggae rhythm section and production duo Sly and Robbie, with drummer Sly Dunbar. Regarded as on ...

- bass * Sly Dunbar - drums * Lloyd "Gitsy" Willis - guitar (tracks: 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 13, 14) *

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- keyboards (tracks: 1 to 6, 8 to 11, 13 to 15) * Ambelique - vocals (racks: 6,12) * One Plus One - vocals (tracks: 4, 5, 10, 12) * Engineered by Lynford "Fatta" Marshalls (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 13), Collin "Bulby" York (tracks: 10, 12),

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(track: 3), Jason Sterling & Orville Baker (track: 6), Hugh Palmer (track: 7) * Produced & mixed by Sly Dunbar &

References

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