• The Renegades – Knocking On My Door
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    • 1. The Renegades – Knocking On My Door
    • 2. Hopeton Lewis – Pick Yourself Up

    The Renegades consisted of Winston 'Pipe' Matthews, Lloyd 'Bread' McDonald and George 'Buddy' Haye and later became a group called the Wailing Souls. Knocking On My Door is one of their earliest Rocksteady works and it was originally released in 1966. It is also one of the rarest records hardly ever found. The record features previously unreleased Ska vocal recording ' Pick Yourself Up' by Hopeton Lewis from the original master tape.

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