Greetings,

The best thing about February? Only 28 days of Winter. Every Saturday it gets a little lighter later in the show. Soon come Spring weather and maximum daylight.

So until we can put our winter gear away, let’s run the bass for put a smile pon your face!

bless, robt

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Jah-bruary 25, 2017; 45 sec.

Set 1:

• Lawrence H – Love Jah; Studio One Sales Conference (Studio One) ’75 JA vinyl
• Herbie Mann & the Tommy McCook Band – Ob la Di, Ob la Da; Herbie Mann Reggae (Atlantic); ’74 Vinyl Dub Album of the Hour; New Orleans flutist
• Bunny Wailer – Ram Dance; Dance Massive (Shanachie) ’92
• Hollie Cook – Twice; Twice (Mr. Bongo) 2014: UK dubstress – dawta of Sex Pistol, Paul Cook
• Gregory Isaacs – Cool Down the Pace; Night Nurse (Mango) ’82
• Don Carlos – Frontline; Just a Passing Glance (RAS) ’84 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
• Squire Jon – Are We Really Free; 10″ (Hi Try) 2006 UK cockney

Set 2:

• Peter Tosh & the Wailers – You Can’t Blame the Youth; Honorary Citizen (Columbia/Legacy) ’69 – nursery rhyme rare 7″

<Can’t blame the youths if you fill their head with nonsense; 12 sec.>

• Bomb the Bass feat. Benjamin Zephaniah & Sinead O’Connor – Empire; clear (Quango) ’95 UK mutant dub; Empire = Vampire
• Clinton Fearon – Goodness; Goodness (Kool Yu Foot) 2014 former bassie of the Gladiators
• Cornell Campbell – Jah Jah Man; 10″ (Irie Ites) 2012 Fr.

Set 3:

• Thievery Corporation feat. Racquel Jones – Letter to the Editor; Temple of I & I Sound (ESL) 2017 DC dubbers

<Exodus Riddim Shower; 45 sec.>

• Bob Marley & the Wailers – So Much Things to Say; Exodus (Tuff Gong) ’77 riddim shower (1): original vox
• I Roy – Commandment IX (So Much Things to Say); Ten Commandements (Virgin Front Line) ’80 yellow vinyl/pic sleeve riddim shower (2): deejay
• Chalawa – So Much Things to Say Dub; Chalawa Dub (Micron) ’77 Can. vinyl; riddim shower (3) dub
• Aston Familyman Barrett – Cobra Style Dub; Family Man in Dub (Heartbeat) Dub Album of the Hour – Wailers bassie

Set 4:

• Inner Circle – Tenement Yard (live version); Best of (Island) Live at the Marquee, London March 1979

<charismatic successor to Bob died in car crash; 30 sec.>

• Jimmy Cliff – I Can See Clearly Now; Cool Runnings soundtrack (Work)  Johnny Nash cover; 28 sec.

• Hopeton Lindo – Ghetto Tenement Yard; Dancehall (Metro) ’88
• Joy & Trevor – Love at First Sight; 10″ (Hitbound)  ’81

Set 5: Vinyl is Vital

• Louise Bennett; Linstead Market; Sings Jamaican Folk Songs (Smithsonian Folkways) ’54: 10″ US vinyl

<oldest piece of vinyl in the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives>

• The Vision – Reality Dub; Dub Vision (Funfundvierzig) ’88 West Germ.; green vinyl
• Little John – Unite; Unite (Vista Sounds) ’88 UK
• Heptones – Should Have Known Better; One Step Ahead (Sonic) ’81 JA Beatles cover
• Ben Wa – Break That Stone (Granite Mix); Docking Sequence vol. 1 (BSI) 2000 Portland mutant dub

Set 6: Best of Smile Jamaica 27+ Years

• Aswad  – It’s Not Our Wish; Showcase (Mango) ’81 extended mix
• Judy Mowatt – Big Woman; Only a Woman (Shanachie) ’82
• Don Carlos – Crucial Situation; Prophecy (Blue Moon) ’84

<Don Carlos Way, Tempe, AZ>

• Dennis Brown – Black Liberation; Words of Wisdom (Shanachie) ’79
• Revolutionaries – Sensi Dub vol. 4 (Original) ’75 Dub Album of the Hour

Set 7:

• Peter Broggs – Jah Voice is Calling; Never Forget Jah (Nocturne) ’82 best (1) original
• Peter Broggs – Jah Voice is Calling; Rejoice (RAS) ’97 (2) update

Set 8: Mutant Dub – UFOria

• Ancient Astronauts feat. Akua Naru – Last Night; Into Bass and Time (ESL) 2011 Germ. – feat. female vox she fell in love with an Ancient Astronaut 
• Spacemonkeyz vs. Gorillaz – Star Shine; Laika Come Home (Virgin) 2002 Laika Soviet space dog

<Laika the brave Soviet space pup>

• Greetings – Lee Scratch Perry; Panic in Babylon; (Damp) 2004 Alien encounter
• Rockers Hi F – Dick From Outaspace; Rockers to Rockers (Gee Street) ’95 UK
• Word Sound I Powa – Intro; Live From Planet Crooklyn (ROIR) ’95 Aliens looking for weed fields
• Soko – I Thought I Was an Alien; I Thought I Was an Alien (Because) 2012 French female
• Doctor Pablo & the Dub Syndicate – Dr. Who; Journeys in Time and Space EP (ON U Sound) 2015 picture sleeve