Songs such as I-Roy’s Don’t Get Weary Joe Frazier (a deejay version to Tony Brevett’s Don’t Get Weary), Big Joe’s Selassie Skank and W**d Specialist and the Gaylads hit song You Made A Mistake. At the time also two other Winston production were released on Magnet – Dennis Walks’ Don’t Play That Song« and the obscure Wally Brown’s Send Back The Rod. There weren’t regarded as high as his DIP output
though. Setting up Fay Music (’74-’77)
Edwards set up his own Fay Music label. Winston was also at this time recording material in Jamaica, pressing them there and then bringing them to the UK and selling them as pre-releases. In 1975 Edwards opened his Fay Music record shop in southeast London’s New Cross, nearby the DIP premises. The greatest success for the label was the monumental album King Tubby Meets The Upsetter At The Grass Roots Of Dub which remained for three months at the top of Black Music’s reggae chart. It was also to become the best LP in 1975 in the UK. Production was done by Edwards himself and as the title explains the mixing was done by the dub pioneers King Tubby and Lee Perry. The album was fundamental in the wider acceptance of dub in the UK. He followed up the album with two other albums that even though they were critically acclaimed didn’t become as big successes – King Tubby Surrounded by the Dreads at the National Arena and Natty Locks Dub. There was also a couple of successful singles on Fay Music such as Augustus Pablo’s Fort Augustus Rock, U Brown’s Wet Up Your Pants Foot and Leo Grahams Greedy Girl. A negative detail with these singles was the pressings (believed to be from Language Specialists Linguaphone) that were often marred by a fuzzy sound. The label released no new products for large parts of 1976 and throughout the following year ’78′ and onwards. In the early 1978 Winston Edwards closed down his Fay Music outlet and went on to manage Joe Gibbs Record Glove shop in Lewisham Way. He also launched his Studio 16 label here. Winston Edwards was also something of an aspiring politician and he followed a political path.
