"Mini Bus" is a song by Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

n dub, reggae

Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

, and dancehall

Dancehall

Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s. Initially dancehall was a more sparse version of reggae than the roots style, which had dominated much of the 1970s. In the mid-1980s, digital instrumentation became more prevalent, changing the sound considerably,...

 artist Barrington Levy

Barrington Levy

Barrington Levy is a reggae and dancehall artist from Jamaica.-Career:In 1976, Levy formed a band with his cousin, Everton Dacres, called the Mighty Multitude; the pair released "My Black Girl" in 1977...

. It was released first as a single in 1984 as a 45 on 12-inch vinyl

Gramophone record

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. Subsequently, it was released on CD

Compact Disc

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 in 1990 as the ninth track on the compilation album Broader than Broadway.

Track listing

UK Vinyl Single

1. "Mini Bus" - 6:30
2. "Red Eye" - 6:00

Broader Than Broadway

1. "Shake It" [The Lindbergh Palace Remix] - 6:25
2. "Here I Come (Broader Than Broadway)" - 3:39
3. "Under Me Sensi" - 4:32
4. "Teach The Youth" - 3:36
5. "Prison Oval Rock" - 4:07
6. "Shine Eye Girl - 2:49
7. "Bounty Hunter - 3:48
8. "The Vibes Is Right - 4:14
9. "Too Experienced - 3:20
10. "Minibus (On The Telephone) - 3:21
11. "Money Move - 3:20
12. "She's Mine - 3:53
13. "You Have Caught Me - 3:39
14. "Here I Come" [1990 Remix] - 5:38

Influences

The song features certain syntactical and structural influences from the song Hush, Little Baby.

Release history

Region	Date	Label
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...  (Vinyl)	April 21, 1984	Kingdom Kingdom Records (UK) Kingdom Records is a British record label from the 1970s and 1980s, that was important in early British and Jamaican dub music.- History :One of Kingdom Records' first releases was the 1972 Mojo Hannah single "Six Days on the Road".- Artists :...
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...  (CD, Compilation)	August 30, 1990	Profile Records Profile Records Profile Records was a record label that specialized in many types of urban-oriented music, such as hip hop, active until 1996..- History :In 1980, at 23 years old, after working briefly for MCA, Cory Robbins was looking to start a record label. He invited his songwriter friend Steve Plotnicki to be...