Since nearly the very beginning I ‘n’ I have harvested all the various Halloween tunes found in Reggae music.
<25+ Years of Jah-loween on 29 Years of Smile Jamaica; 24 sec.>
Over the 3 decades of Reggae Radio my Devil’s menagerie has grown to 2 60-CD suitcases, a crate full of vinyl, a box full of 7″.
About a decade ago, I started hacking up horror bytes, movie trailers and Jah-loween intros. Then like Dr. Frankenstein in his laboratory, I hunker down in my Secret Dubratory and stitch it all together.
It’s alive! It’s alive!
So now enjoy this look back to all Hallow’s Eve and admire how Horror Reggae fits the Season. 11 sec.
Roll a lickle spliff wif di papyrus. Smoking sensimenia inna Mesopotamia!
<Dracula gets diabetes sucking High Fructose blood out of kiddies; 20 sec.>
Greetings,
Smile Jamaica loves Halloween. Or as I call it Jah-loween. Lots of black arts and superstition in Reggae music. I’ve tracked those Dark Arts for more than 20 years of 3 hour shows.
So this show is Deadicated not Livicated!
<20 plus years of Jah-loween; 32 sec.>
Doin’ the boneyard skank
Here is the road-map through the Boneyard: Witches, werewolves, vampires, duppies and ghosts, And all menagerie of Vampires.
Voodoo that you do!
Plus nuff sound bytes, Horror movie trailers: Blacula, The Thing With Two Head, Village of the Damned, Dr. Phibes, Halloween, X-Files, Twilight Zone.
Listen with the lights out.
curse, robt
<Welcome to Hell!>
Smile Jamaica Zombie Jamboree Playlist:
Set 1:
<All Treats no Tricks; 8 sec.>
Ini Kamoze – Hole in the Pumpkin; Shocking Out (Greensleeves) ‘87
<For 20 years I have led off each Jah-loween Showcase with Ini Kamoze; 12 sec.>
Scientist – Voodoo Curse; Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires (Greensleeves) ’81 dub to Michael Prophet
<Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires; 11 sec.>
Lee “Scratch” Perry & Dub Syndicate – Train to Doomsville; Pay It All Back vol. 2 (ON U Sound) ‘88
<Scratch: Pick up your Cross and follow me! 23 sec.>
Black Uhuru – Vampire; Sinsemilla (Mango) ‘80
The Toyes – Monster Hash; The Toyes (CD Tunes) ’96 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement; Boris Pickett cover
GG All Stars – Haunted House; 12” (Hit Disco) ‘79
Scratch – Pick up your Cross and follow me!
Set 2:
<Tribute to the Undead>
Keith Hudson – Darkest Night; Flesh of My Skin, Blood of My Blood (Atra) ’75
Michael Prophet – Satan; Rootsman (Ariwa) ‘99
Garland Jeffreys & Big Youth – Graveyard Rock; Escape Artist (Epic) ’81 black NY rocker
<Garland Jeffreys – NYC Rocker; 17 sec.>
Barrington Levy – Murderer; 12” (Jah Life); ’84 Vampires dem suck your blood
Graveyard Rock – don’t get stoned on my tombstone
Set 3:
Max Romeo – I Chase the Devil; War in a Babylon (Mango) ’76 Lee “Scratch” Perry/Black Ark
Milton Henry – Them a Devil; Who Do You Think I Am? (Wackies) ’85
Devon Irons – Ketch Vampire; Baffling Smoke Signal (Heartbeat) ’76 Lee “Scratch” Perry/Black Ark
Early B – Ghost Busters; Ghost Busters (Black Solidarity) ‘85
Barnabas Collins + Graveyard Skank – Lone Ranger; On the Other Side of Dub (Studio One) ’77 Soap Opera vampire
<Barnabas Collins – Dark Shadows vampire; 14 sec.>
Barnabas Collins – he’ll chew your neck like Wrigley’s
Set 4: Vinyl Halloween
Gladiators – Duppy Conqueror; Gladiators (Virgin Front Line) ’80 Bob Marley cover; Duppy = Jamaican Ghost
In October of 1989 I began an excursion on the version: Radiothon (fund-drive) ’89 was when my bredrin Rutabaga Reese invited me to co-host KRCL’s long running Reggae program Smile Jamaica (then on from 1-4 pm Saturdays). I had just resigned from the grind of the Graveyard (Mondays 3-6 am) and figured I would finish my undergrad degree at the U of Utah and then head to Collie-fornya for Grad School.
Funny how things change. I stayed. Rutabaga and I shared Saturdays for about nine months and around July 1990 was when I took over the reigns solo.
For me programming Smile Jamaica is my absolute favorite thing on earth to do. And I like to say give thanks to KRCL for investing in the show and I ‘n’ I. Same guy, same channel, same time, same format.
I started in Oct. ’89. The Simpsons (post Tracey Ullman) started Dec. ’89. Both programs still running well-hot!
bless, robt
Smile Jamaica: Oct. 1989; The Simpsons: Dec. 1989
High-Lights of the Jah-tober 10, 2015 Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: 59 sec.
Playlist:
Set 1:
Winston Jarrett – Solid As a Rock; Atra 10 Track (Atra) ’72 UK vinyl
Chalawa – Natural Mystic; Exodus Dub (Westons) ’77 Can.; Dub Album of the Hour
Sly & Robbie – Sesame Street; Many Moods of Sly, Robbie & the Taxi Gang (Sonic) ‘79 kids cover
Judy Mowatt – Slave Queen; Black Woman (Shanachie) ‘76
Giorgio Tsoukalos – The Bob Marley of Ancient Aliens
<Smile Jamaica and Acoustic Levitation; 11 sec.>
Ancient Alien theory suggests: it wasn’t Hebrew slaves who built the Pyramids, it was acoustic levitation using heavy bass riddims
Greetings,
My favorite television show is Ancient Aliens. Friday Nights on H2. I am fascinated with the concept of how what we know as Mesopotamian mythology predated the Bible and was really the story of Ancient Aliens. Not Skygods. Nor Greek Gods. It was the Anunnaki
The Anunnaki – ZZ Top got nothing on these guys
A dude named Zecharia Sitchin translated thousands of Sumerian cuneiform tables and discovered a hidden history of Ancient Aliens who came from the Twelfth Planet. A place called Nibiru.
The Anunnaki – those who came from the Sky – were space miners who needed gold for their atmosphere on Nibiru.
With an elliptical orbit, there are times when Nibiru approaches Earth which has massive gold holdings. The Anunnaki land space ships in places like Sinai, Sumer (modern day, southern Iraq), the Indus Valley and of course, Egypt. Then they went to the major gold fields in Southern and Western Africa.
Nibiru intersects with Earth: 2900 AD
<The 12th Planet: Nibiru – home world of the Anunnaki; 18 sec.>
From Book IV of Sitchin’s Earth Chronicles: The Lost Realms. About the “Bearded Ones”: The Anunnaki who also visited the New World where the Mayan and Incan civilizations had so much gold, it was worthless as currency.
The Anunnaki had come to Earth 432,000 years before the Deluge – a period equivalent to 120 orbits of Nibiru. Though to the Anunnaki one orbit equalled a single year which was equivalent to 3600 Earth Years. They came and went between Nibiru and Earth each time their planet came closer to the Sun (and Earth) as it passed between Jupiter and Mars.
Nibiru suffered climate change and the Anunnaki needed Earth’s gold to turn into gold mist to make their air breathable
But these Anunnaki were lazy. So they created mankind to mine the gold to take back to Nibiru. Superior Anunnaki DNA spliced with Homo Erectus DNA. And what happened was these Anunnaki liked human women and there was plenty of bedjamming between the two groups.
“Come back to my ziggurat, baby. We’ll listen to Smile Jamaica, burn a little bush and rub a dub!”
Finally, the main Sumerian God Anu was fed up with humans. He commanded that the Anunnaki wipe them out with a massive flood.
One of the gods, Enki, took pity on mankind and decided to warn them about the Deluge meant to wipe out the annoying humans.
Was it Noah and his Ark? Pshaw. It was a Sumerian named Ziusudra in a submarine.
What makes more sensi to survive a massive flood? A wooden ark or a submarine? Of course, the latter
Do I believe any of this? Sure why not. Here are the 12 planets that the Sumerians wrote about around 2700 BC. Planet, in this case, celestial body
Do not scoff!
The Sun
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Luna (Earth’s moon)
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus (discovery 1781 AD)
Neptune (discovery 1846 AD)
Pluto (discovered 1930 AD)
Nibiru (The 12th Planet)
The Sumerians knew about these outer planets 4500 years before local astronmers knew about them. Makes sensi to me!
bless, robt
High-lights of the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Sept. 19, 2015; 34 sec.
Set 1: Harvest Time
<Time to clean out the bad weeds, separate them from the good for the day of harvest is here — Don Carlos; 10 sec.>
Wayne Jarrett – Every Tongue Shall Tell; Showcase (Wackies) ’82 Brooklyn, NY vinyl; Horace Andy cover
Sly & the Revolutionaries – Marijuana; Black Ash Dub (Trojan) ’80 Dub Album of the Hour
Don Carlos & Gold – Harvest Time; Raving Tonight (RAS) ’83: Harvest Time Set
Black Survivors – Herb Pon Top; Nations of the World (Sword Lion) ’95 Revelation 22:2: the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nation
<Revelation 22:2; 12 sec.>
Dr. Israel & the Brooklyn Sound System – Sensi Man (the Ghetto Theatre Proudly Presents the Further Adventures of); Black Rose Liberation (Baraka Foundation) 2003 Brooklyn jungle herbtune
John Holt – Police in Helicopter; 12” (Holt) ’82 herbtune
<You burn down our collie fields, we burn down your cane fields — John Holt; 33 sec.>
Read your Bible. Listen to Reggae.
Set 2:
The Wailers – Baby We’ve Got a Date; Catch a Fire (Tuff Gong) ’73: JA vs. US/UK overdubs
<Catch a Fire: JA original mashup Island overdubs; 57 sec.>
<Differences in JA vs. US/UK: Baby, We’ve Got a Date; 1 min. 22 sec.>
African Head Charge – Conspiring (Dancing to My Own Drums); Pride and Joy: Live (ON U Sound) ‘91
Zion Train – Get Ready; Homegrown Fantasy (China) ’95 UK trance dub w/ female vox
Systemwide – Rise Up; Pure and Applied (BSI)
Snoop Lion – Rebel Way; Reincarnation (Berhane Selassie); Snoop vs. Major Lazer
Les Nubians – El Son Reggae; One Step Forward (Virgin) French/Chadian sistas
Smile Jamaica is hosted by Robert Nelson on 90.9 FM KRCL in Salt Lake City, Utah (Saturdays, 4-7 p.m. MT). Ark-ives available weekly here at the Smile Jamaica blog.
