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"Cherry Oh Baby" — Eric Donaldson

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"Cherry Oh Baby," Eric Donaldson's win at Jamaica's 1971 Festival Song Competition, became an enduring reggae standard covered by artists including UB40 and the Rolling Stones - an unusually long afterlife for a song that began as a national song-contest entry rather than a commercial single.

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Cherry Oh! Baby - Eric Donaldson

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