Jamaican Ken Boothe would hit #1 in the UK with his cover of Bread's "Everything I Own", a song David Gates wrote about missing his late father. Surely the blueprint for UB40's Labour of Love. Boothe recalls the reaction to his performing the song, then #5 in the UK charts, on TV.
The week after I did the show it went up in the Top 10. And I did so many Top of the Pop shows. After about three weeks when they counting down, all the Jamaicans in England was at the radio listening to hear where 'Everything I Own' was. And when them hear it is number one, the amount of phone call I got from Jamaica, all over the world, congratulating me ...and thanks to all the people who really love that song and make it reach where it reach.
Great song, great jacket!
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