Very nice article on the rise of duets in Jamaican music in today’s Jamaica Gleaner:

But perhaps the most influential and successful male vocal duo in early Jamaican music was the Blues Busters – Lloyd Campbell and Philip James. Born March 9 and December 31 respectively in the year 1941, they met at infant school in Montego Bay, sang at school concerts and later performed together in north coast nightclubs during their teens, before being brought to Kingston in search of better opportunities by Noel Simms of the group Skully and Bunny. After recording their first song, Little Vilma, for producer Micky Obrien in 1960, they made a dramatic entry into Coxson’s stables with the self-penned enthralling ballad, There’s Always The Sunshine in 1961.