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INACCURACIES ACCEPTED IN THE EARLY JAMAICAN MUSIC INDUSTRY!

June 5th, 2016 | Add a Comment

By Roy Black— Clement ‘Sir Coxsone’ Dodd—– One of the most commonly accepted inaccuracies in early Jamaican popular music is the story that legendary record producer Clement ‘Coxson’ Dodd’s voice appeared in only one recording. So often we have heard on-air radio presenters, who we would expect to know better, referring to Delroy Wilson’s early 1960’s ska recording of King Pharaoh, as the only one in which Dodd’s voice is heard. In the recording, the Studio 1 honcho is heard … Read entire article »

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VP RECORDS TO RELEASE “FIRST CLASS ROCK STEADY” IN CELEBRATION OF THE BEAT’S 50th ANNIVERSARY!

April 3rd, 2016 | Add a Comment

Delroy Wilson—- WHILE it produced some of the ‘baddest’ bass lines and Jamaica’s most influential singers, rocksteady has never enjoyed the acclaim afforded ska, roots-reggae or dancehall. To observe the sound’s 50th anniversary, VP Records will release First Class Rocksteady on April 16 through its 17 North Parade subsidiary. It is a vinyl singles collection with 14 rocksteady songs. It includes singer Hopeton Lewis’s Sounds And Pressure, the song that kicked off the rocksteady craze in late 1966. … Read entire article »

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THE RECENT DISCOVERY OF A “LOST” 1992 RECORDING OF RICHIE STEPHENS’ “RAIN FROM THE SKY” IS HOTTING UP NEW YORK CITY AIRWAVES!

February 1st, 2016 | Add a Comment

By Marlon Burrell— In 1992 the highly regarded production team of Wycliffe “Steely” Johnson and Cleveland “Clevie” Browne, popularly known as Steely & Clevie, were working on a project called “Steely & Clevie Play Studio One Vintage.” From those sessions came Dawn Penn’s international mega hit “No, No, No (You Don’t Love Me.”) Another single from that project that did well was Leroy Sibbles’ “Fattie Fattie,” on which he updated the classic that he originally recorded … Read entire article »

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VETERAN SINGER LEROY BROWN, COVERS A CLASSIC!

January 26th, 2016 | Add a Comment

Leroy Brown— RELEASED in 1964, Tom Paxton’s ballad The Last Thing on My Mind has earned its ‘classic’ tag. It has been covered by several Jamaican artists, the latest being Leroy Brown. The veteran singer’s self-produced version was recently released on his Caturna label. While he is familiar with the original, Brown said it was one of the covers that grabbed him. “Is a song a love from the 70s when Delroy (Wilson) did it. It’s a beautiful song, a jus’ hope I did it justice,” he told the Jamaica Observer. Brown’s version features Sly and Robbie, the Firehouse Crew’s Paul ‘Wrong Move’ Crosdale on guitar and keyboard and keyboardist Bobby Kalphat. It is expected to be part of his latest album, True Confessions, which will be released later this year. Brown first recorded in the … Read entire article »

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ENGLISH-BORN ACTOR DELROY LINDO TO STAR AS MARCUS GARVEY IN NEW BIOPIC!

December 4th, 2015 | Add a Comment

You may remember him from the films Malcolm X (1992), Gone in 60 Seconds, This Christmas and Romeo Must Die. And after 2016 you will be able to add Marcus Garvey’s biopic to the list of movies that Delroy Lindo has starred in. The life and work of Jamaica’s first national hero and renown black icon Marcus Garvey is set to be captured in abiopic in which popular British actor Delroy Lindo will star. It’s quite fitting that Lindo, 63, was chosen to portray Garvey considering that he was born to Jamaican parents. He was raised in Lewisham, England, United Kingdom until his teens when he and his mother, a nurse, moved to Toronto in Canada. He later migrated to United States, where he attended acting school and has since made a name for himself as one of … Read entire article »

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AFTER FOUR NOMINATIONS, POPCAAN FINALLY WINS THE MOBO AWARD!

November 6th, 2015 | Add a Comment

Popcaan— After securing four nominations in as many years, deejay Popcaan finally won the MOBO Award for Best Reggae Act. The event took place on Wednesday night at the Leeds First Direct Arena, in west England. Popcaan, who was not present, won over Chronixx, London-based dancehall artist Stylo G, singjay Protoje and Omi, whose Cheerleader topped the British national chart in 2015. Popcaan is making waves locally with songs including Way Up and Weed is My Best Friend. He has a strong following among dancehall fans in the United Kingdom, thanks to several well-received songs. In 2010, he had an underground hit there with Clarks, done with his mentor, Vybz Kartel and Gaza Slim. Last year, he scored his first and only British top 10 hit when he teamed with British singer Melissa Steel … Read entire article »

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MORE THAN 500 ARTISTS AND 8,000 SONGS RECORDED AT CLEMENT DODD’S STUDIO ONE!

October 18th, 2015 | Add a Comment

From left: Bunny Livingston, Bob Marley and Peter Tosh when they just formed The Wailin’ Wailers.— Studio 1 has become a household name in Jamaica, insofar as it relates to the island’s rich musical legacy. Hundreds of recording artistes who have achieved local and international fame either began their careers there or have honed their musical talents within the walls of that revered institution, situated at 13 Brentford Road, (renamed Studio 1 Boulevard), in Kingston 5. One name that would perhaps come readily to mind is Bob Marley. Although he didn’t begin his recording career at Studio 1 (he began as a solo artist with Leslie Kong’s Beverley’s label in 1962), he certainly was groomed there and came to public attention while singing with the Wailers group, which included Neville ‘Bunny Wailer’ … Read entire article »

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UNDOCUMENTED EVIDENCE LEADS TO MANY CLAIMING TO BE ROCK STEADY’S FIRST!

August 9th, 2015 | Add a Comment

By Roy Black—- Hopeton Lewis— BY LATE 1965, the ska beat, which had dominated Jamaican popular music since late 1961, and which was highlighted in last week’s article, was giving way to a smoother, slower, and more rhythmic form of music, which by year-end 1966, would become known as rock steady. The stage was being set for a plethora of such songs that would transform the Jamaican musical landscape forever. All of a sudden, there was a rhythmic shift in the focus of recordings from the fast horns-dominated songs to more emphasis being placed on the bass and the drum. This feature, which has remained a major ingredient of Jamaican popular music, lasting into the dancehall era, has helped tremendously in bringing to the fore several vocalists, some of whom found the frantic pace of … Read entire article »

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THE DELROY WILSON STORY: AN ODE TO THE LEGEND!

March 5th, 2015 | Add a Comment

Top: Delroy Wilson Bottom: Jah Ruby Today is the 20th anniversary of Wilson’s death. Known to fans as ‘Saddle Head’, he was 46 when he died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1995. IN the early 1960s, as Jamaican music evolved from American boogie woogie and Rhythm and Blues to ska, a prodigious singer named Delroy Wilson took the scene by storm. The pre-teen had a string of ska hits including King Pharaoh, I’m not a King and Trying to Conquer Me. He remains one of Jamaican music’s most influential vocalists. His legacy is remembered in The Delroy Wilson Story, an album by singer Everard ‘Jah Ruby’ Metcalf, Wilson’s childhood friend. Produced by Willie Lindo of South Florida’s Heavy Beat Records, The Delroy Wilson Story hears Jah Ruby covering 21 of his hero’s songs. There is … Read entire article »

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JAMAICIAN MUSICIANS PLAYED AROUND WITH “TRANSITIONAL SKA!”

November 30th, 2014 | Add a Comment

Delroy Wilson—- Music practitioners and connoisseurs of Jamaican popular musichave often categorised the island’s music into four main areas: ska, rocksteady, reggae, and dancehall. According to them, ska was popular from 1962 to about the middle of 1966; rocksteady from late 1966 to 1968; reggae from 1969 to 1983; and dancehall from 1983 to the present time. There were other forms of Jamaican music like version, dub, and roots reggae, which, although given due recognition, were never numbered among the main genres, perhaps because they were merely spinoffs from them. But, in all fairness, no history of Jamaican popular music could ever be written without the inclusion of mento, or what some refer to as Jamaican calypso. It holds pride of place, above all others, as being Jamaica’s most indigenous music form, having evolved from the … Read entire article »

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