The Jamaican music industry was dealt another blow earlier on 12th April when Joseph Gordon aka Lord Tanamo passed away in his adopted home of Canada.His career took him from mento singer in the fifties, to fronting the legendary Skatalites in the...
Although not the most celebrated of Jamaican vocal groups, the Clarendonians none the less released some of the most successful ska, rock steady and reggae recordings of the 1960s and early 1970s.During this time, the ‘group’, which...
To celebrate the release of their new single’Heatwave’, Pama International gave a blistering performance at The Trojan Records official club night on 8th October, with resident DJ Mistah Brown (Tighten Up) spinning...
After bursting onto the Jamaican music scene with a series of hits for Coxson Dodd and Bunny Lee at the start of the rock steady era, Ken Parker remained one of Jamaica’s most popular perfoprmers into the 1970s.During this time he recorded for almost every...
Recorded at the Caribbean Festival Dance at London’s Alexandra Palace on 16th October 1971, Desmond Dekker’s ‘Pickney Gal’ was among a number of tracks by the likes of the Maytals, John Holt, Hopeton Lewis, Greyhound and Byron Lee &...
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