Night Nurse

Isaacs and Sylvester Weise, Sly Dunbar's legal name, wrote it, and Isaacs and Holt produced; it came out as a 1982 single on Mango and Island, listed at 7:00 on the song page and 4:04 on the album. In a 2010 Jamaica Gleaner conversation with Christopher Serju, as reported by DancehallMag, he said it is not about drugs: when someone is ill at night the first person called is the partner, really the first nurse, and even a doctor brother with a helicopter would arrive too late. It did not chart as a single in the UK or US, and British TV and radio adverts for a cold and flu remedy of the same name used it. It went Silver in the UK, passed 100 million Spotify plays on April 29, 2023, and appears in the Grand Theft Auto games.

Sly and Robbie with Simply Red covered it in September 1997 on EastWest, produced by Dunbar and Shakespeare, at 3:54, reaching 13 in the UK; the album Friends won the 1999 Grammy for best reggae album. Lady Saw toasted over the original lyrics in 2005. Phish played it on October 26, 2010 in Manchester, New Hampshire, the night after his death, according to a search snippet. BBC Radio 1's Chris Goldfinger named it a favorite in 1996, saying Gregory has a unique voice and singing style. We found no samples.