Greetings,

Let’s start of this week’s Smile Jamaica celebrating Easter and Passover  through music!

<Happy Easter; 33 sec.>

As a Sumerian Fundamentalist, my New Year starts at the same time. April 1. 2018 is our year 6768

And while I’m celebrating. Go Giants! 

Bobbylon’s 3 obsessions:

1. Reggae & Dub music
2. Green Bay Packers football
3. San Francisco Giants baseball

First song before we celebrate Easter/Passover/Assyrian New Year, American poet and City Lights Bookstore owner love his Giants. 60th year in SF.

<Lawrence Ferlinghetti poem “Baseball Canto”; 32 sec.>

Getting ready to do our Spring Fund Drive at KRCL. So I thought I would give you a sampler of the theme sets I have done over the years and decades. 50 sec.

The Whitman Sampler of Smile Jamaica:

1. Easter/Passover
2. 4:20 herbtunes
3. Wailers Family Tree
4. Jamaican Jukebox 7″ – Roots Dawtas cover Bob Marley
5. Vinyl is Vital
6. Rockers do Reggae
7. Roots Dawta CDs
8. UFO-ria

bless, Bobbylon

Set 1: Easter/Passover

• Lawrence Ferlinghetti – Baseball Canto; Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour – Baseball (Columbia)
• Agrovators – None Shall Escape the Dub; Rasta Dub ’76 (Attack) ’76 JA dub album of the week
• Bro. Marshall – Man From Galilee; Man From Galilee (Tabernacle)  ’68
• Gloria Bailey & the Joy Bells – I Have Paid the Price; 7″ (Henry’s) ’81 JA gospel
• The Gospelettes – Sign My Name’ 7″ (Glad Tidings) JA gospel
• Norma King – Good Friday; 7″ (Zion Love) ’89 Can.
• Marcia Griffiths & Tyrone Taylor – He Shed His Blood; 7″ (High Note) JA ballad
• The Congos – At the Feast; 12″ (99) ’81  – Passover

Set 2: 4:20 Cannabis Service

• Ben Harper – Burn One Down; Voodoo Child (bootleg) 4/97 live in Bonn, Germ. 
• Soom T – Weed is Sweeter; Ode to a Carrot (Jahtari) 2008 Glasgow female weedstepper
• Michael Rose – Draw the Weed; Never Give It Up (Heartbeat) 2001
• Mikey Murka & Disrupt – Police; 12″ (Mahanee) 2009 Germ. cover of John Holt’s Police & Helicopter

Set 3: Wailers Family Tree

• Peter Tosh – African; Dealing With the Shytstem (bootleg) 11/5/82 live at the Roxy in LA
• Bunny Wailer – No More Trouble; Hall of Fame (RAS) ’95, 50 Bob covers on Bob’s 50th
• Bob Marley & the Wailers – Is This Love; Kaya (Tuff Gong) ’78
• Bob Marley & the Wailers – Is This Dub; CD Single (Tuff Gong) ’78
• Scientist – Guava Road Dub; 11King of Dub (Kingdom) ’81: Dub Album of the Hour

Set 4: 7″ Jamaican Jukebox: Roots Dawtas cover Bob Marley

• Cindy Breakespeare – Turn Your Lights Down Low; 7″ (Riverside) 

<Damian Marley’s Mom; 32 sec.>

• I Three – I Shot the Sheriff; 7″ (Rita Marley Music)
• Anicia Banks – Thank You Lord; 7″ (Ashandan) Curtis Mayfield original, Bob cover
• Sheila Hylton – Mellow Mood; 7″ (Harry J) ’77

Set 5: Vinyl Is Vital

• Prince Far I – Natty Champion; Jamaican Heroes (Trojan) ’80 UK 
• Jennifer Lara – Hand to Mouth; High Times All Star Explosion (Alligator) ’85 Chicago blues label does Reggae
• New Age Steppers feat. Bim Sherman – Dreamers; Foundation Steppers (ON U Sound) ’83 UK Mutant Dub
• Jackie Bernard – Economic Crisis; Lee “Scratch” Perry – Excaliburman (Seven Leaves) ’78 UK
• Steel Pulse – Higher Than High; Caught You (Island) ’80 UK

Set 6: Rockers do Reggae

• Johnny Clarke – Rebel Soldering; Don’t Trouble Trouble (Attack) ’75: (1) – Original

<Soldering = cocksman; 36 sec.>

• Hall & Oates – Soldering; Hall & Oates (Buddha) ’75 (2) cover

<Hall & Oates on Smile Jamaica? WTF? 26 sec.>

• Bob Dylan – Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door; Live at Budokan (Columbia) ’78 Jah-pon

<2nd place to Cheap Trick;  14 sec.>

• Linda McCartney – Sugartime; Wide Prairie (MPL) ’77 produced by Lee “Scratch” Perry

Set 7: Roots Dawtas

• Aisha – Only Jah Works; True Roots (Ariwa) ’94: Roots Dawta CD set
• Althea & Donna – Sorry; Uptown Top Ranking (Virgin Front Line) ’78
• Rita Marley – Jah Jah Don’t Want; Who Feels It Knows It (Shanachie) ’80
• Love Joys – Chances Are; Lovers Rock Showcase (Wackies) ’82 female duo

Set 8: UFO-ria

• Anubian Lights – Outflight; Outflight CD Single (Crippled Dick Hot Wax) 2001 – The New Jerusalem

<The New Jerusalem mentioned in Revelation is about a gigantic spaceship; 50 sec.;  <

• U.F.O. feat. Deedee Bridgewater – Flying Saucer; Saint Germain des Pres Cafe IV (Wagram) 2004 Fr.
• Creation Rebel – Starship Africa Part 1; 10″ EP (ON U Sound) 2015 UK
• Dennis Alcapone – The Sky’s the Limit (Flying Machine); Guns Don’t Argue (Trojan) ’72
• Tena Stelin – Flying Saucers; 7″ (River Bank) 2001 about the Anunnaki
• Mighty Sparrow – Russian Sattelite; Bob Dylan Theme Time Radio Hour vol. 5 (Music Melon) ’59 about Laika the Soviet space dog, calypso

<Mighty Sparrow’s tribute to Laika, Soviet space dog who gave his life for space travel; 21 sec.>

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