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Artist: Prince of Darkness
Track: Burial of Longshot (Pt I)
Label: Downtown (subsidiary of Trojan Records)
Catalog#: DT441
Format: Vinyl, 7”
Country: UK
Released: 1969
Credits: Produced by Dandy Livingstone (a.k.a. Prince of Darkness)
A song about the death of a racehorse could be considered an unlikely contender for the subject of a song, but 'Burial of Longshot' is just one of many tunes devoted to the tale of the legendary Jamaican racehorse, Long Shot (the most famous song being 'Long Shot Kick de Bucket' by The Pioneers).
Long Shot was far from a champion horse, but he possessed serious guts and stamina. His ability to complete races 'a record 202 by 1969' made him famous in Jamaica. His name lives on in the Long Shot Trophy, awarded annually at Kingston's Caymanas Park race track. But in Reggae, it is his 203rd race for which Long Shot is best remembered. As Long Shot hugged the rail down the last straight, one afternoon in 1969, he dropped dead, four furlongs short of the finishing post. Both vocal and instrumental versions are killer.
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