Greetings,

David Bowie and now Prince. Sad year for music giants. We livicate this Ark-Ive to the great pop singer in his 80’s heyday.

Until I got into Reggae this was my automatic soul purchase a youth in frozen Montana:

Smile Jamaica’s Top 5 Prince songs

1. When You Were Mine
2. Little Red Corvette
3. I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
4. Kiss
5. Sign o’ the Times.

On the Ark-Ive below we hear When Doves Cry. Bass added for the Reggae which wasn’t there on the original.

bless, robt

<Plant your seeds!>

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives Annotated Playlist: Jah-pril 23, 2016:

Set 1:

• Monty Montgomery – Seeds;  Seeds (Fusion) Atlanta vinyl
• Sound Dimension – Rockfort Rock – Mojo Rock Steady (Studio One/Soul Jazz) Dub Album of the Hour
• Laurel Aitken – Heile Heile; Rasta Man Power (Unicorn) ‘69
• Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers – 666; Hey World! (EMI) ‘86
• Ayo – Lonely; Gravity at Last (Polydor) 2008 Nigerian-German female
• Jimmy Lindsay – Easy; 12 the Hardway (Tribesman) ’77 Commodores cover
• 10 Ft. Ganja Plant; Bass Chalice; Bass Chalice (ROIR) 2005 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
• Horace Andy – Collie Weed; Prime of Horace Andy (Music Club) best of herb tune

<Just minding my own business. Smoking my collie weed>

Set 2

• Denver Dub Collective – When Doves Cry; Purple Rain (Denver Dub) 2009 Prince RIP

<Prince: Rest in Peace; 40 sec.>

• Aswad – Pass the Cup; Not Satisfied (CBS) ’82 UK herbtune

<Pass the Cupe = the sacred chalice>

• Gracy & the Herbman Band – Yard Crew; Movements (Funfundvierzig) ’95 German-Jamaican toaster
• Black Crucial – Mr. Vincent; 10” (Fatman) ‘83

Set 3: Wailers Family Tree

• Bunny Wailer – Roots, Radics, Rockers, Reggae; Retrospective (Shanachie) 
• Rita Marley – Fussing  & Fighting; Harambe (Shanachie) ‘82
• Bob Marley & the Wailers – Crazy Baldhead (Unreleased Album Mix); Rastaman Vibration (Tuff Gong) ’76 bonus track
• Peter Tosh – Vampire; No Nuclear War (EMI America) ‘86
• Scientist – The Anti-Chris; 911 Dub (Nature Dub) Dub Album of the Hour

Set 4:

• Grace Jones – Love Is the Drug; Private Life: Compass Point Sessions (Island) ‘80 Roxy Music cover w/ Sly & Robbie
• Don Carlos & Barry Brown –  Mr. Big Man + Shoot Up the Town; 10” (Uptempo) ’83 Sugar Minott prod’n

<Put da needle pon di record. Penny keeps the bass in the groove>

Set 5: 7 inch Seven Leaf; 19 sec.

• Prince Hammer – Export Ganja; 7” (Tamoki Wambesi) 7” herb set
• Black Sabbath vs. Black Uhuru – Guess Who’s Coming for Sweet Leaf; 7” (blank) Peaboy & Sherman rmx
• Levi Roots – It a Fi Bun; 7” (Conqueror)
• Alpha Steppa Meets Alpha & Omega feat. Flex Zaggazow – Highest Grade; 7” (Steppas) 2012 mutant dub; Korean prod’n

Set 6: Best of Smile Jamaica 26+ Years

• Keith Hudson – I’m Not Satisfied;  Rasta Communication (Greensleeves) ’78
• Tetrack – I’m Not Satisfied; Clocktower Classics (Clocktower/Abraham)
• Marcia Griffiths – Where There is No Love; Steppin’ (Shanachie) ‘79
• Peter Broggs – International Farmer + Version; Never Forget Jah  (Nocturne) ’82 herbtune

<2016: 9 down, 41 to go?>

Set 7:

• Augustus Pablo – Islington Rock; East of the River Nile (Deluxe Edition) (Shanachie) ’78 melodical instrumental
• Dillinger – Cocaine in My Brain; Cocaine (Charly) ’83 herbtune

<Dillinger soul update – Knife, fork a bottle & a cork – that’s the way you spell New York>

• Sarah B Band – Overnite; Realign My Mind (Sarah B) 2011 Salt Lake City roots group
• Louie Lepke – Love Is Not a Play Thing; 10” (Merge) ’82 over Earl Sixteen vox

Set 8: Mutant Dubstresses; 9 sec.

Samia Farah – Les Temps Difficiles; Samia Farah (Sony) ’99 Fr.-Tunisian singer: Mutant Dubstresses

Transglobal Underground feat. Natacha Atlas – Boss Tabla; Psychic Karaoke (Nation) ’96 Hindi dub

Dub Gabriel feat. P.J. Higgins – Silent Warrior; Raggabass Resistance (Destroy A/C) 2013

Zion Train feat. Molara – Dance of Life; Homegrown Fantasy (China) ’95 UK trance dub

Cool Hipnoise – Dama Dada; King Size Dub vol. 10 (Echo Beach) Germ. 2003 comp

Alpha & Omega – One Culture + One Prayer; Everyday Life; (A & O) ’93 UK trance dub