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1977 Roots of Reggae: Music From Jamaica (Lyrichord) 1979 Jolly Boys at Club Caribbean (Club Caribbean) 1989 Pop 'n' Mento ; 1990 Quake with fear, The Jolly Boys are here (6 cd box set of previously unreleased material, including live recordings from their 1990 WOMAD festival appearance in Reading.(JB) 1991 Sunshine N' Water (Rykodisc)
The main Island label was soon joined by another three labels: Sue for black American music with catalogue numbers starting at WI-300, Black Swan for more Jamaican music starting with WI-400, and Jump Up, for Calypso and Trinidadian music, starting with 500, but using another prefix (JU). The Aladdin label was started in about 1965 and used ...
The Fabulous Five Inc. (also known as Fab 5) is a reggae and soca band formed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. Over a 45-year career, they have released 26 albums, had many number 1 hits in Jamaica, and were the featured musicians on Johnny Nash's platinum album I Can See Clearly Now.
Lloyd Woodrowe James (born 26 October 1947), [2] better known as Prince Jammy or King Jammy, is a Jamaican dub mixer, sound system owner and record producer. He began his musical career as a dub master at King Tubby's recording studio.
The music of Jamaica includes Jamaican folk music and many popular genres, such as mento, ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub music, dancehall, reggae fusion and related styles. Reggae is especially popular through the fame of Bob Marley .
Socialist Roots Hi-Fi was a prominent [1] Jamaican reggae sound system and record label owned by Tony Welch (aka Papa Roots) in the 1970s and early 1980s. [2] It was originally named King Attorney (and before that Soul Attorney). [2] The name changed in 1976 when Welch bought the set.
Johnson started to operate a single turntable and speaker sound system in 1968 and started the Special I sound system in 1972, changing the name to Black Scorpio after the name caused friction in the area in which it was based, with the largely People's National Party-supporting locals suspecting sympathies with the Jamaica Labour Party due to its similarity to that party's slogan.
In 1993 Barrow co-founded the Blood and Fire record label with Simply Red's Mick Hucknall, specialising in reissuing older roots reggae and spiritual dubwise Jamaican music. [2] Barrow's extensive knowledge of reggae was the catalyst for the creation of the Jamaican Reggae Archive Project which is funded and owned by Chris Blackwell with Barrow ...