Super Ape

Infobox Album
Name = Super Ape
Type = Studio album
Artist = The Upsetters


Released = Start date|1976|8
Recorded = Black Ark, Kingston, Jamaica
Genre = Dub
Length = 37:37
Label = Island
Producer = Lee Perry
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://wc01.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hifrxqegldhe link]
Last album = "Revolution Dub"
(1975)
This album = "Super Ape"
(1976)
Next album = "Return of the Super Ape"
(1978)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = Studio album


Cover size = 125
Lower caption = Jamaican album cover

"Super Ape" is a dub album produced and engineered by Lee "Scratch" Perry, credited to his studio band The Upsetters.

In Jamaica, the album was released under the name "Scratch the Super Ape" in July 1976 on Perry's own Upsetter label. The Jamaican version had a different track order than the international version, that was released in August the same year on Island Records.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Lee "Scratch" Perry

ide one

#"Zion's Blood"
#"Croaking Lizard"
#"Black Vest"
#"Underground"
#"Curly Dub"

ide two

#"Dread Lion"
#"Three in One"
#"Patience"
#"Dub Along"
#"Super Ape"

Personnel

*Lee Perry – producer
*Mikey Boo – drums
*Benbow Creary - drums
*Noel "Skully" Simms – percussion
*Boris Gardiner – bass
*Earl "Chinna" Smith – guitar
*Keith Sterling - piano
*Bobby Ellis - horns
*"Dirty" Harry Hall - horns
*Herman Marquis - horns
*Vin Gordon – trombone
*Egbert Evans - flute
*Barry Llewellyn – backing vocals
*Earl Morgan – backing vocals
*Tony Wright – cover art