Stranger Cole is easily one of the longest-serving entertainers in Jamaican popular music. His entertainment career stretches as far back as 1961 when he auditioned for producer Duke Reid with his composition In And Out The Window. But the Duke wasn’t impressed, believing that Stranger would do better as a songwriter or singing in duet. That first composition – a tuneful patchwork of nursery rhyme fragments, was instead successfully recorded by the more colourful, Eric ‘Monty’ Morris that same year. Cole’s recording career would not … Read entire article »