Entries tagged with "The Gaylads"

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THE LEGACY OF SINGER/SONGWRITER/PRODUCER B.B. SEATON!

November 26th, 2016 | Add a Comment

BY HOWARD CAMPBELL— B.B. Seaton Though he recorded a number of cover songs early in his career, it did not take B.B. Seaton long to discover the importance of being a songwriter. By the late 1960’s, he hit his stride as singer/songwriter for The Gaylads, with whom he performs this evening at the inaugural One World Ska and Rocksteady Music Festival at Ranny Williams Entertainment Center. “If you have a good voice and don’t have good songs, it’s difficult to get a hit,” he reasoned. Seaton’s career began at producer Clement Dodd’s Studio One in the ska era of the early 1960’s, but blossomed during the rocksteady period late that decade, with The Gaylads. He wrote most of the trio’s hits, such as Lady With The Red Dress, You Should Never Do That, Hard to Confess, … Read entire article »

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THE MIGHTY DIAMONDS BROUGHT SOULFUL HARMONIES TO THE 70’S REGGAE!

September 21st, 2015 | Add a Comment

By Roy Black— The Mighty Diamonds in 1975.— The Mighty Diamonds belong to an exclusive fraternity of three-part harmony group singers that emerged in the mid-1960’s in Jamaican popular music and lasted into the next decade. Earlier, The Heptones, The Techniques, The Paragons, The Melodians, The Wailers, and The Gaylads had laid the foundation for the phenomenon, which produced a plethora of hits, mainly in the rock steady and early reggae styles. Those who were around at … Read entire article »

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MAURICE ROBERTS, A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE LEGENDARY GROUP THE GAYLADS, DIES AT 70!

August 16th, 2015 | Add a Comment

Maurice Roberts (right) seen here with other members of The Gaylads, Randall Thaxter (lef) and BB Seaton.— MAURICE Roberts, a founding member of famed vocal trio The Gaylads, died on Friday at age 70. His daughter, Paula, said Roberts died at the University Hospital of the West Indies where he had been admitted the previous day. Along with Horace ‘Bibi’ Seaton and Winston ‘Delano’ Stewart, Roberts formed the classic Gaylads line-up which is recognised as one of Jamaican pop music’s great harmony groups. They thrived during the rocksteady era of the mid and late 1960’s, recording a number of hit songs for different producers, including Clement Dodd, Sonia Pottinger and Leslie Kong. Lady With the Red Dress, Joy in The Morning, Hard to Confess and Over the Rainbow were some of the trio’s popular songs. After … Read entire article »

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AUSTRALIAN SINGER MISS TRACE, ROCKS WITH LEGENDARY SINGER/SONGWRITER B.B. SEATON!

October 19th, 2014 | Add a Comment

Miss Trace rocks steady with B.B. Seaton– AUSTRALIAN singer Miss Trace has found a new hero in rocksteady great B.B. Seaton. Last month, while in London for Seaton’s 70th birthday party, she recorded three songs — Image of Love, Something For You and Stand By Me — with him. The two first collaborated last November on the songs, World Needs Now and Born To Believe. Miss Trace spoke of how she met Seaton, a prolific singer/songwriter who led harmony group, The Gaylads, during the 1960s. “I met a gentleman online in 2009, Ras Obi, who is a Nigerian singer based in the UK. I fell in love with his tune Touch My Hand that had been recorded with BB Seaton,” she told the Sunday Observer. Seaton and Miss Trace met last year in London where Seaton … Read entire article »

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