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JBC Television began broadcasting on Sunday, 4 August 1963 at 6 pm ( See: The Daily Gleaner Archives, August 4, 1963, page 2), to coincide with the first anniversary of Jamaica's independence. [2] It was the second television service launched in the Commonwealth Caribbean, following Trinidad and Tobago Television (TTT) from the previous year. [3]
In 1953, Jamaica became the first of the British colonies in the Caribbean to offer FM broadcasting when RJR began using the technology. By 1954, there were over 57,000 rediffusion boxes distributed throughout the country. [1] In 1959 Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation was founded as a public broadcasting corporation operated by the government ...
Lois Kelly Miller survived the attack, but suffered serious burns. However, two friends whom she was traveling with were killed, including the sister of Jamaican actress Carmen Lawrence (wife of Douglas Manley). [3] Kelly Miller was a member of a respected group of Jamaican theater actors who emerged during the 1950s and 1960s. [4]
Cadogan is the daughter of Rev. Claude Cadogan and Lola Cadogan, a trained soprano singer of classical and devotional music during the 1950s up until 2000. [2] Cadogan spent several years of her childhood in Belize, where her father was from, before returning to Jamaica to live. [2]
In addition to his contract at the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation (JBC), Malcolm also worked as a composer and arranger for other clients such as the Jamaica Little Theatre Movement for whom he created the original musical for the libretti of two pantomimes: Banana Boy in December 1958 (libretto by Ortford St John) and Jamaica Way in 1960 ...
A few more recordings from live concerts exist, both audio and video, amongst them a performance from Dortmund, Germany, on June 13, 1980, which is featured on the official 2014 release Uprising Live. "Redemption Song" was released as a single in the UK and France in October 1980 and included a full band rendering of the song.
Their first sound recordings were made after meeting Prince Buster, who produced a Wareikas-backed song by the Folkes Brothers, "Oh Carolina", done at the Jamaican Broadcasting Corporation (JBC) Studios in 1959. The B-side was "I Met a Man"). [3]
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