Jimmy Cliff’s version had emerged in 1969 on his second album, named simply “Jimmy Cliff” (Trojan TRLS 16). However, returning to the Cliff song, the story behind Percy’s version is worth telling. This later cut, given the more simplified title of “Life’s Little Ups And Downs”, would appear in 1974 on the German Atlantic 20085 Midi-LP “The Golden Voice Of Soul”). (The Sledge Rhino box-set/Atlantic discography has the Cliff song recorded a little later, on 5 February, while the other song is not shown as being recorded by Percy until what was surely a much later interpretation by him identified as recorded in “Muscle Shoals” on 4 October 1971.
Ivy’s session sheet shows this was recorded on 6 or 7 January, along with his version of Margaret Ann Rich’s song “Life Has It’s Little Ups And Downs”. The year began with a particularly interesting recording by Percy – his take on Jamaican Jimmy Cliff’s self-penned “Many Rivers To Cross”, which either Ivy, David Johnson or Sledge chose to call “Too Many Rivers To Cross”. However, let’s start much closer to the beginning of the year. Now various alleged summer and Fall recording dates (some on Quinvy sheets, others provided by the Atlantic discography) are discussed in more detail below but, as you will see, the evidence points strongly to Percy being on tour in Africa from late May probably right through to early November and therefore not around to record anything in the States during that extended period. Having dealt in the last Part with some of the musicians and song-writers who first found their way to Quinvy in 1970 (or even a few months earlier), we shall now address the recordings and other information that we have been able to amass for 1970, starting with Percy Sledge’s activity. Quin Ivy And His Norala And Quinvy Studios, Part 8 – 1970: Sledge spends summer in Africa, 7 Quinvy label 45s are released and Ivy upgrades his studio to an 8-track facility.
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