Entries tagged with "Musical Youth"

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LEROY “MR. BASSIE” SIBBLES PERFORMS FOR THE STARTIME AUDIENCE, JANUARY 9!

January 3rd, 2016 | Add a Comment

Leroy Sibbles— THE rocksteady era of the late 1960’s produced several great songwriters and musicians. One of them was Leroy Sibbles of harmony trio The Heptones. Sibbles, an headliner for this Saturday’s Startime show, has an enviable record as artiste, bass player and arranger. While numerous Jamaican artists have covered or sampled his work, ‘foreign’ acts have done so with even greater success.In 1982, Musical Youth, a British teen group with Jamaican heritage, hit it big in the United Kingdom and United States with the novelty song, Pass The Dutchie. It was done to the beat of Full Up, a popular instrumental co-written by Sibbles and keyboardist Jackie Mittoo. Pass The Dutchie went top 10 in the UK and US. Seven years later, hot British group UB40 covered the Heptones’ hit song Baby for their Labour … Read entire article »

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NEW VOYAGE FOR JACKIE MITTOO IN AFRICA!

March 29th, 2015 | Add a Comment

Jackie Mittoo—- AT his musical peak, Jackie Mittoo recorded outstanding Afrocentric songs like Drum Song. Africa had a lasting impact on the keyboardist/arranger. Mittoo travelled to the west Africa country of Ghana in 1985 with British reggae group Musical Youth, who were riding high at the time with the hit song, Pass the Dutchie. While there, he led recording sessions at Black Note studio in the capital Accra which yielded the album, Jackie Mittoo in Africa. The album was released in 1997, seven years after Mittoo’s death from cancer at age 42. Tony Owens, Musical Youth’s former manager who co-produced the 14-track set, is preparing to release it digitally. “I remember we did shows in Kumasi, Accra and Togo but with some of the money we got, we went into this eight-track studio and did … Read entire article »

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HISTORY MAKING CONCERT IN BIRMINGHAM JULY 20!

June 26th, 2014 | Add a Comment

Reggae Icons To Make Musical History Steel Pulse, Apache Indian and Musical Youth to share a stage for the first time in Birmingham Written by Poppy Brady— SMILES: (From left) Apache Indian, Selwyn Brown, Mukhtar Dar, Amlak Tafari and Sharon Palmer MUSICAL HISTORY is being made and played in Birmingham next month when legends from three respected reggae institutions will share a stage together for the first time at the Simmer Down Festival 2014. Internationally acclaimed reggae icons Steel Pulse will play alongside Apache Indian and members of Musical Youth at the family festival in Handsworth Park, which is expected to attract at least 15,000 people from several generations. It’s a spectacular home coming for these award-winning artists who have toured the world many times over the decades, but say their hearts always belong to Handsworth where … Read entire article »

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MUSICAL YOUTH OF “PASS THE DUTCHIE” FAME – GETS READY FOR A COMEBACK!

June 24th, 2012 | Add a Comment

By Jonny Greatrex—- BRUMMIE reggae chart-toppers Musical Youth have announced plans for a big comeback – with two albums all of 30 YEARS since they first found fame. The band’s 1982 track Pass The Dutchie became a worldwide hit propelling the young Birmingham quintet to stardom, despite misguided criticism that the song glorified drugs. But the dream failed when they split in 1985. Now two original members, Dennis Seaton, 45, and Michael Grant, are working on an album of … Read entire article »

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