Greetings indeed,

Been organizing all my vinyl in my Ark-Ive. It’s a never ending proposition of memory refresh. I haul and pull about 40 gems for you on this show.

Find out from where I get my nickname. Bobbylon. (PS – not one of the Reggae good guys!); 51 sec.

When I was a youth in Montana I collected baseball cards and comic books. You had a visual/literary context. But not like the satisfaction of finding a rare record, pulling it from the sleeve, dropping the needle pon the groove and listening to the bass wash over the room.

Now that is the joy of collecting!

bless, Bobbylon

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives Annotated Playlist: May 18, 2019 – All Vinyl; 68 sec.

Set 1:

• Half Pint – Greetings; Greetings (Power House) ’86 JA vinyl
• Black Disciples/Burning Spear – The Ghost; Garvey’s Ghost (Mango) ’77 Dub Album of the Hour
• Barbara Paige – Jah Love; Hear Me Now (Epiphany) ’82 San Francisco
• Merge – Vision of Life; Prisoner of Your Love (Takoma) ’84 Hollywood, CA
• Steel Pulse – Nyahbinghi Voyage; Caught You (Island) ’80 UK
• Wailing Souls – Ishen Tree; On the Rocks (Greensleeves) ’83 UK herbtune (1) vox
• Josey Wales – Love Me Ishen Tree; Ganja Pipe Is Harmless (Live & Learn) ’83 DC herbtune (2) dj
• Pad Anthony – Praise Without Raise; 12″ (Sunset) ’85 JA

Set 2:

• Yellowman & Fathead – Proud of Me; Yellow Man, Fat Head and the One Peter Metro (Absissa) ’82 JA
• The Meditations – Fly Your Natty Dread; Greatest Hits (Shanachie) ’84 Ho Ho Kus, NJ
• Mighty Invaders – Mr. Officer; Invasion! (Rave) ’83 Syracuse, NY youth group w/ female vox
• Sister Nancy – One, Two; One, Two (Techniques) ’82 JA
• Carl McDonald – Jah Is Coming; 12″ (Makdon) ’87 US

Set 3:

• Gregory Isaacs & Christine – Rock On + Saturday Night; Rock On (Jah-Live) ’75 Fr.
• Hugh Griffiths – African Dream; Motherland Africa – Gone Clear (My-0-Lantic) ’86 NY
• Inner Circle – Rock the Boat; Rock the Boat (Trojan) ’74 UK – Hues Corp. disco cover
• Dennis Brown w/ Nigger Kojak & Liza – Hole in the Bucket/Cork It; 12″ (Joe Gibbs Record Globe) ’78 JA – Luther Ingram cover
• 4th Street – Ah Who Seh? Ah Who Sey? Go-Deh1 (EMI) ’76 Dub Album of the Hour

Set 4:

• Junior Reid – Love Mama; Original Foreign Mind (Harry J) ’85 JA
• Lillian Allen – The Subversives; Revolutionary Tea Party (Redwood) ’85 Emoryville, CA; Toronto dub poet
• Latty Guzang – Forward to Zion; 12″ (Atlantean) ’84 Houston, TX

Set 5:

• Bob Marley & the Wailers feat. Bunny – Sunday Morning; Best of Bob Marley & the Wailers (Studio One) ‘ 66 JA

<Sunday Morning: gospel ballad; 1 min. 16 sec.>

• Sis Nya – Works of Jah; Jah Music (Jah Shaka) ’87 UK dawta
• Jah Lion – Soldier & Police War; Scratch on the Wire (Island) ’79 UK; dj to Police & Thieves
• George Faith – Please Stay; Ravers Rock vol. 2 (Vista Sounds) ’83 UK
• Calman Scott – Devil in the City (Dubplate); 12″ (Kingston Connexion) ’77 Fr.

Set 6:

• Akabu – Life; Akabu (Viva) ’89 UK roots dawta group
• The Heptones – Book of Rules; Night Food (Mango) ’76 UK
• Horace Andy – Mr. Talkative; Reggae Jamboree (Moodisc) ’92 Miami
• Tony Tuff – Take It Down Low; Wha We A Go Do (Top Rank) ’84
• Eek  a Mouse – Noah’s Ark; 12″ (Greensleeves) ’80 UK

<Utnapishtim in his tesseract space ship. Not Noah and a wooden boat>

• Threat to Creation (Cherry Red) ’82 UK mutant dub album of the hour

Set 7:

• Freddie McGregor – Bobby Bobbylon; Bobby Bobbylon (Studio One) ’79 JA; how I get my nickname
• Shakeena – Reggae Music; Dance Music (Majicaa) ’87 Los Angeles
• Phillip Frazer – Come Ethiopians; Reggae All Star (Freedom Sounds) ’79 JA
• Bingy Bunny – Coca-Cola Bad Boy; 12″ (12 Star) ’80 New York

Set 8:

• Singers & Players feat. Lizard & Prince Far I; Dungeon/Merchant Ship; Revenge of the Underdog (ON U Sound) ’82 UK mutant dub

<The horror of the Middle Passage; 50 sec.>

• Niney the Observer – My Spliff; Nuclear Jammin’ (Voiceprint) ’86 Chicago herbtune
• Junior Byles – Education Rock; Reggae Hit the Town (Pama) ’68 UK
• The Regulars – Ital Club; Victim (CBS) ’79 UK
• Dry & Heavy feat. Likkle Mai – Radical Star (Green Tea) ’99 Jah-pon w/ female vox