Phyllis Dillon was a Jamaican ska and reggae singer who recorded for Duke Reid?s lucrative Treasure Isle label in the late sixties and early seventies. Dillon was born on January 1, 1948 in Linstead, Jamaica. Influenced by American singers Connie Francis, Patti Page and Dionne Warwick, she began singing in talent contests. It was during a performance at the Glass Bucket Club in Kingston with the group The Vulcans, that Duke Reid?s session guitarist Lynn Taitt discovered Dillon. Phyllis Dillon was 19 when she recorded her first record for Duke Reid. In 1967, Reid released Dillon?s ?Don?t Stay Away.? While most of Dillon?s subsequent recordings would be covers of popular and obscure American songs including Bettye Swann?s Make Me Yours, Perry Como?s "Tulips and Heather," The Grass Roots "Midnight Confessions," and Stephen Stills's ?Love the One Your With,? "Don?t Stay Away" was an original composition featuring Tommy McCook and the Supersonics as th

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