Yeah. I am none to happy with our electoral choices. Tweedledum vs. Tweeledee.
So either way we’re gonna get more war and more backbiting and fighting over who can give more kasheesh to the Richie Riches and Military welfare. Gridlock is the norm now.
But all I can say is: Reggae has been warning it would come to this for 50 years. That’s why I keep trodding through creation in a Irie fascination.
The Rastas put that pessimism to beautiful musical backing because as Bunny sang, “Who feels it knows it.”
Hope for the best. Prepare for the worst. And it’s only 4 years til we do it all over again
bless, robt
Smile Jamaica Annotated Playlist: Sept. 9, 2016; 48 sec.
Set 1:
Martin Campbell & the Hi Tech Roots Dynamics – Jah Love; Rootsman The Real Thing (Channel One UK) ’97 UK vinyl
Yabby You & the Prophets – Zambia; Dub It to the Top (Blood and Fire) ’76-’79: Dub Album of the Hour
Linval Thompson – Dread Are the Controller; I Love Marijuana (Trojan) ‘79
Storm – Hard Not to Like You; Hits From the Past (Links) mid 70’s female lovers rock
Bunny Wailer – Time Will Tell; Retrospective (Shanachie) ’81 Bob Marley cover
Yellowman – Operation Eradication; One in a Million (Shanachie) ’84 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement – anti-mj in Jamaica
<Operation Eradication – Reagan makes Jamaica get rid of the Collie Weed; 77 sec.>
Ken Boothe – Show Me That Love; 10” (Education) 2006
Jamaican military’s war against the Seven Leaf – Operation Eradication
Set 2:
Prince Buster – Oh Carolina; Original Golden Hits vol. 2 (Melodisc) ’60 RIP
Zema – Free at Last; Black Sheep (Melchizedek) SoCal female singer
Hopeton Lindo – Territory; 10” (Tuff Scout) ‘87
Prince Buster deejay cameo in The Harder They Come
Set 3: Best of Smile Jamaica 26+ Years
Clint Eastwood & General Saint – Vote For We; Stop That Train (Greensleeves) ’83
<Election 2016: Ebola vs. Hemoragghic Fever; 29 sec.>
Lovejoys – Chances Are; Reggae Vibes (Wackies) ’83 sister duo
Cultural Roots – Worries Me a Yard; Runninb Back to Me (Mango) ‘88
The Symbals – The Human Race; King Tubby on the Mix vol. 2 (Original)
L. Moodie – Untouchable Dub; Moodie in Dub vol. 2 (Moodie Music) ’74: Dub Album of the Hour
Will KRCL let me spin Smile Jamaica from Canadian exile?
Set 4
Bob Marley & the Wailers – Roots; Exodus (Deluxe Edition) (Tuff Gong) ’77 B-side
<Exodus – Movement of Jah People; 36 sec.>
Josey Wales – It Have Fi Bun; Outlaw (Live & Learn) ’84 herbtune
Thievery Corporation – Lebanese Blonde; CD Single (ESL) ’98 herbtune w/ Pam Bricker vox
<Lebanese Blonde – Whenever I get low, I get high; 17 sec.>
Johnny Clarke – Dem a Say Rasta; 10” (Observer Gold) over Jacob Miller riddim
Set 5: Vinyl Is Vital
Clint Eastwood – Roots, Rock, Reggae; Death in the Arena (Channel One) ’78 JA
Carlton & the Shoes – I’m in Chains; This Heart of Mine (Quality) ’82 JA
Full Experience feat. Aura Lewis – Can’t See You; Aura Meets Lee “Scratch” Perry at Black Ark Studio (Blue Moon) ’76 Fr. Black Ark prod’n
Heptones & Jah Lion – Mr. President; Upsetter Disco Dub: Turn and Fire (Anachron) ’77 Neth
<Mr. or Madame President?; 21 sec.>
Mr. President or Madame President. What you gonna do about the working class?
Set 6: Rockers do Reggae
Paul Simon – Mother and Child Reunion; Paul Simon (Warner Bros.) ’72: Rockers do Reggae
<Paul Simon records in Jamaica; 18 sec.>
Gabriella Cilmi – Ob-la Di, Ob-la Da; White Album Recovered 1 (Mojo) 2008 Beatles Caribbean cover
Eddie Floyd – Baby Lay Your Head Down (Gently on My Bed) (Stax) Complete Stax/Volt Singles Collection vol. 3 (Stax) ’73 soul reggae: Memphis in Jamaica
Wingless Angels – Zion Bells; Wingless Angels (Mindless) ’96 Keith Richards, Justin Hinds + nyahbinghi
The Upsetters – Drum Rock; Bill Laswell – Dub Massive Chapter Two (Trojan) 2005 remixes: Dub Album of the Hour
Nyah Keith and the Wingless Angels
Set 7:
Peter Tosh & the Wailers– Fire, Fire; Honorary Citizen (Columbia) ‘68 single
Mike Brooks – Feeling of Reggae; Classical Anthology (M-10) ’78 best of
Prince Mohammed – Casanova Ride; 10” (Rockers) A. Pablo prod’n
Set 8: Mutant Dub
Survival Soundz – Dub Is Dub; Land of Baboon (Baraka Foundation) ’96 illcentric dub
Playgroup – Going Overdrawn; Epic Sound Battles Chapter Two (Cherry Red/ON U Sound) ’82 instrumental
Samia Farah – Je Me Mefie; Samia Farah (SAM) 2008 Fr.-Tunisian female singer
The Archive feat. Ras Puma – Sensibility; Archives (ESL) 2012 DC: herb tune
Audio Active – Psycho Buds (Asian Dub Foundation rmx); Bong EP (Birdman) 2000 Jah-pon meets UK Hindi dubbers
Getting ready to embark on a major remodel project in my house in the Sugarhood (lower Sugarhouse) area of Salt Lake City.
I’m tired of living like a music hoarder. So I am biting the bullet: wiping out two small bedroom and replacing them with one big room with shelves from floor to ceiling.
A Librarian (me) with his own personal Library. But in order to do that, I have to move 35 years of music collecting into my garage.
I took last Saturday off to do that and pulled about 50 representative favorites aside for what I call Digital Dubplate shows: 3 hour editions of Smile Jamaica cooked up in my home studio.
The memories of collecting this music over the decades, as I pack CDs into boxes and records into crates, really makes me nostalgic. Because so many record stores have gone out of business, my whole way of life is crashing down.
Forward ever, backwards never!
bless, robt
Smile Jamaica Digital Dubplate: Fall 2016
0-30 min
Don Carlos – Just a Passing Glance + Dj version; Just a Passing Glance (RAS) ‘84
The Congos – Children Crying; Heart of the Congos (Blood and Fire) ‘77
Paul Simon – Mother and Child Reunion; Paul Simon (Warner Bros.) ‘72
Althea & Donna – Make a Truce; Uptown Top Ranking (Virgin Front Line) ‘78
Cocoa Tea – Rocking Dolly; Rocking Dolly (RAS)
Earl Zero & Soul Syndicate – Home Sweet Home; Visions of Love (Epiphany) ‘79
Lacksley Castell – Righteous Stand; Morning Glory (Negus Roots) ‘82
School is back in session. Summer a gwaan. Time for New Roots and opportunities. Soon the weather gets cooler and the days grow shorter. All the folks travelling and doing outdoor activities that don’t always include radio. So listenership tends to go down in the summer and starts to bump in the fall.
Look forward to that in the months to come on Smile Jamaica while we put Summer in our rear view. That’s why if you’re travelling, on-demand Smile Jamaica is always there for your activity soundtrack
bless, robt
Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Jah-gust 27, 2016
Set 1:
Ras Michael & the Sons of Negus – Build Up Your House; Revelation (Trojan) ’82 UK vinyl: nyahbinghi style
The Upsetters – Noah Sugar Pan; Upsetter Shop vol. 1 (Heartbeat) Black Ark Dub Album of the Hour
Michael Palmer – Have Faith in Jah; Wicked a Go Feel It (Trojan) ‘84
Judith – Such Is Life; Universal Roots – U.K. Reggae All Stars (Universal Roots) 2008 UK
Leroy Wallace – Far Beyond; Studio One Roots (Studio One/Soul Jazz) melodica
Fun Boy Three – Farmyard Connection; Waiting (Chrysalis) ’83 Specials 2 Tone ska spin off
<Peter & Bob – 2 farmers trying to earn a living>
Ras Daniel Ray – Princess; 10” (Education) 2006 UK
Set 2: Wailers Family Tree
Peter Tosh & the Wailers – Pound Get a Blow; Honorary Citizen (Columbia): ’68
Bunny Wailer – Liberation; Retrospective (Shanachie) ’88 best of
Rita Marley & the Wailers – Deh Pon Dem; Ska Bonanza (Heartbeat/Studio One)
Bob Marley & the Wailers – Smile Jamaica + Version; Rastaman Vibration (Deluxe Edition) (Tuff Gong) ’76: single + version for Smile Jamaica Peace Concert
Set 3: Best of Smile Jamaica – 26+ Years
Linval Thompson – I Love Marijuana; I Love Marijuana (Trojan) ’79
Cedric Myton & the Congos – Wherever He Leads Me; Face the Music (VP) ‘81
Althea & Donna – Jah Rastafari; Uptown Top Ranking (Virgin Front Line) ’78 female singjay duo
Wailing Souls – They Don’t Know Jah; Very Best of (Greensleeves) ‘82
Bill Laswell – Dub Massive vol. 1 (Trojan) Dub Album of the Hour: dub remixes of Reggae dubs
Original burlap edition for separating your seeds and stems.
<Can’t roll a spliff on an .mp3>
Greetings,
Last hour of Smile Jamaica Juggling wax with the monitors cranked to 11 in the Studio at KRCL. Booming a recent vintage 45 from a So Cal roots group called the lions.
Their lyric talks about going back to the roots because: “you can’t roll a spliff pon your .mp3:
Original vinyl issues of Bob Marley’s Rastaman Vibration hard “burlap” ridges for that 420 ritual tradition.
The dog days of August? No! The Jah Days of Jah-gust. When it’s hot and everything is dried out. The AC is maxed and the lawn is barely green, how do you break away?
Grab a cold one of choice and settle in for 3 hours of riddim showers! Fall soon come!
Trodding through Summer. Roots for I ‘n’ I. In the late afternoon when it’s relentless sun and heat, that is what Smile Jamaica is all about. The Soundtrack to your Summer BBQ. A Red Stripe. Mellow Mood waiting for the sun and the heat to go down.
I’m inside KRCL and if they paid their AC bill that month, it’s cool and deadly as I fling roots for 3 hours of killer sound ‘n power.
Since I started Jah Music in late June 1988, this time of year always makes me nostalgic for when I was a youth and not a grizzled vet. When the Compact Disk was new, I still hugged my black wax and digital music was far off into the future.
Nostalgia? No! Jah-stalgia
bless, robt
Kind of looks like headphones on HIM’s ears?
Smile Jamaica Playlist: Jah-ly 30, 2016
Set 1:
Prince Alla – Ethiopian Song; King of the Road (Ital International) ’82 JA vinyl
Desmond Dekker – Reggae Recipe; Original Hit Sound (Trojan)
Devon Russell – Life Is; Prison Life (Tamoki Wambesi) ‘83
I Roy – Message From the Top; Every Mouth Must Be Fed (Pressure Sounds/Micron) ‘75
Samia Farah – Violent; Many Moods of Samia Farah (SAM) 2008 French/Tunisian artist
H.R. – Who’s Got the Herb?; I Luv (Railroad) ’91: 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement, original to 311 cover
Dennis Brown – Africa We Want to Go; 10” (Observer Gold)
Winston Edwards – Natty Locks Dub (Studio 16) ’74 UK vinyl, Dub Album of the Hour
Set 2:
Bomb the Bass feat. Benjamin Zephaniah & Sinead O’Connor – Empire; clear (Quango) ’96 UK mutant dub Empire = Vampire
Yellowman – Don’t Burn It Down; Don’t Burn It Down (Shanachie) ’88 herbtune
General Public – Forward As One; Hand to Mouth (I.R.S.) ’86 post 2 Tone ska=The Beat
Cornell Campbell – Money; 10” (Coptic Lion) Mike Brooks prod’n***End of Set 2
Set 3: Best of Smile Jamaica – 27+ Years
The Selecter – Three Minute Hero; Dance Craze (2 Tone) ’80 UK ska live
<Dance Craze – 2 Tone Ska movie>
The Maytals – Do the Reggae; Trojan Story (Trojan) ‘76
Earth & Stone – Give Me; Hitbound – The Revolutionary Sound of Channel One (Heartbeat/Channel One) ‘78
Black Uhuru – Natural Reggae Beat; Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (Heartbeat) ‘80
Jah Shaka – Black Steel; Dub Symphony (Mango) ’90: UK dub album of the hour
<Smokey’s Records in Salt Lake City>
Spent my Post Office per diems here building the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives
Set 4:
Bob Marley & the Wailers – Crazy Baldheads; Rastaman Vibration (Deluxe Edition) ’76 unreleased alternate album mix
Etana – Jamaican Woman; I Rise (VP) 2014 female
The Congo’s – Some a Thief; 10” (Congo’s) 2006 over Johnny Clarke’s Crazy Baldheads
Set 5: Vinyl is Vital
Jimmy London – Ride On; Welcome to My World (Burning Sounds) ’78 UK
The Cimarons – Moving on Up; In Time (Trojan) ’74 UK
Louise Bennett – Dip Them; Sings Jamaican Folk Songs (Smithsonian Folkways) ’54 10” US
Don Tinglin – John Brown; Rough Road (Burning Sounds) ’78 UK red vinyl, herbtune
Ijahman Levi – African Train; Ijahman & Friends (Jahmani) ’88 UK
1954 – oldest record in the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives
Set 6:
Sisters Jam – People of the World; Rockers International (Greensleeves) female group
Bongo Herman – Chairman of the Board; 400% Dynamite (Soul Jazz) ’72 Liquidator riddim
Foreign Exchange – Big Head Spliff; Occam’s Razor (First Step) ‘’99 NY, herbtune
Allan Kingpin – Stand Up For a Right; 10” (Reggae Archive)
Aggrovators – A Rougher Version; King Tubby – At the Controls (Trojan) Dub Album of the Hour
Roots dawtas working with Augustus Pablo
Set 7:
Akabu – The World; Warrior Queen (ON U Sound) ’95 UK female group: Adrian Sherwood prod’n
Glen Brown – Lambsbread/Lambsbread Dub; The Way to Mt. Zion (ROIR) ’77 herbtune
<Lambsbread – flavor or herb>
Lambsbread collie mek wi jolly
Set 8: Mutant Dub
Audio Active – Happy Shopper (Live); Happy Shopper in Europe EP (ON U Sound) ’95 Jah-pon
The Lion of Judah shall break every chain. And give I the victory again and again. Happy Birthday!
Greetings
<Happy Birthday, Lion of Judah; 30 sec.>
the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah. Elect of God. Everliving God. Earth’s Rightful Ruler. Light of the World. The Power of the Trinity…..Haile Selassie I – His Imperial Majesty, July 23, 1892
Early in my Smile Jamaica career (since 1988/89), I was getting crosseyed with a friend who slurred, “What’s the deal with all this I Love Jah? Are Rastas gay.”
I snapped out of my fog and could feel anger before I took Gregory Isaacs’ advice and cooled down the pace.
I calmly replied: “Jesus Loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so.”
Happy Birthday to the well spring of the concept I have developed of: Reggae music is the power of Rastafari gospel.
Marcus Garvey said: Look to the east for a black king shall be crowned. And lo, in 1930 Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael become his Imperial Majesty: Haile Selassie I – the Power of the Trinity. 52 sec.
Smile Jamaica celebrates that legacy with 3 hours on his 124th anniversary of his birth. 1 min.
Livicate, never deadicate
bless, robt
Very regal. And reminiscent of ………My Sumerian ancestors the Anunnaki
Set 1:
Naturalites – Picture on the Wall; Rub-a-Dubble vol. 1 (CSA) ’85: Happy Birthday Haile Selassie: July 23, 1892
Joe Gibbs & the Professionals – Snipers; All Mighty Dub Chapter 4 (Joe Gibbs) ’79: Dub Album of the Hour
<Celebrating 28 Years of Reggae Radio- best of the early years; 28 sec.>
Spring of 1988 my college roommate and I were having pizza at The Pie near the University of Utah campus. They were playing the local community radio station, KRCL over their hi fi.
We heard for a new volunteer call. My roommate was doing modern 80’s indie sounds and I was doing Reggae on the Univ. of Utah’s radio club K-UTE. Even on that low frills setup (they only broadcast in the Student Union) we had some radio experience. How to mix songs, do set breaks, maintain logs etc.
So we went down to KRCL and pitched our shows. KRCL was set for modern indie sounds but they wanted to expand their ethnic music programming. They accepted my application to do a Sunday Night/Monday AM show I called 3 o’clock Roadblock – after the Bob Marley song on Natty Dread. The show went from 3AM to 6AM.
After about six weeks of training, I debuted either late June or early July 1988. For the nite owls, insomniacs and graveyard workers. Not a lot of listeners but I learned radio. I did that for a year or so (during the coldest winter in 40 years.) I had to call AAA twice that winter.
In Oct. of ’89, I switched to Saturdays on Smile Jamaica. We were on at 1pm back in the 80’s. My bredren Rutaabaga Reese and I together until about summer of 1990 and then I flew solo. And I just keep on keeping on!
So we celebrate that legacy today with 28 years of Roots Reggae and Dubwize!
Selah!
bless, robt
This album lit the fuse
Smile Jamaica’s Top 5 Salt Lake City Record Stores, 1986-1990
Smokey’s Records; (defunct mid 90’s)
Cosmic Aeroplane (defunct around ’90)
Randy’s Records (still going, mostly vinyl now!)
Starbound (defunct mid 2000’s)
Mad Platter (defunct)
Still slinging the roots!
Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: July 16, 2016: Annotated Playlist – 28 Years: CD version; 17 sec.
Set 1:
Black Uhuru – What Is Life? (E.T. Thorngren rmx); Anthem (Island) ’83
<It was Black Uhuru that made me a Reggae fanatic; 1 min 3 sec.>
Impact! All-Stars; Java; Java Java Dub (Impact!) ’72 UK vinyl: Dub Album of the Hour
Naturalites & Realistics – Picture on the Wall; Rub-a-Dubble vol. 1 (CSA) ’86 UK
<#1 hit of the Islands – Picture on the Wall; 31 sec.>
Yellowman – Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt; Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt (Greensleeves) ‘83
Peter Broggs – International Farmer; International Farmer (RAS) ’82 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
Natural Beauty – Nice Up Dancee; Nice Up Dancee (RAS) ’86 UK dawta trio
July 23 – all Haile Selassie on his birthday, 1892
Set 2: Seven Leaf Set; 13 aec.
Carlton Livingston – Trodding Through the Jungle; Retrospect (Grapevine)
Equators – Feelin’ High; Hot (Stiff) ’81 UK ska
Benjamin Zephaniah – Get High; Rasta (Workers Playtime) ’83 UK
Capital Letters – Smoking My Ganja; 12” Mix; Headline News (Greensleves) ’79 UK youth group
…with Chalice in hand!
Set 3:
Third World – 96 Degrees in the Shade; 96 Degrees in the Shade (Mango) ‘77
<Jamaican Heroes martyred in their fight against the Brits; 32 sec.>
Aisha – Evil Spirits; High Priestess (Ariwa) ’88 Mad Prof.
The Beat – Tears of a Clown; I Just Can’t Stop It (Go-Feet) ’80 Smokey Robinson 2 Tone ska cover
Don Carlos – Jah, Jah Hear My Plea; Prophecy (Blue Moon) ‘84
Chalawa – Natural Mystic Dub; Exodus Dub (Micron) ’77 Can. Dub cover of Bob Marley
Jamaican martyrs waiting their turn on the gallows
Set 4: Wailers Family Tree; 23 sec.
The Dreads:
Peter Tosh – Till Your Well Runs Dry; Legalize It (Columbia) ’76, William Bell cover
Bunny Wailer – Burial; Sings the Wailers (Mango) ’81, Tosh cover
Bob Marley & the Wailers – 3 o’clock Roadblock; Countryman Soundtrack (Mango) ’82: diff. mix: the name of my 1988-89 Reggae show; 1min.
Set 4: Wailers Family Tree – Sistas
Rita Marley – Beauty of God’s Plan; Harambe (Shanachie) ’82
Judy Mowatt – Put It On; Black Woman (Shanachie) ’76 Bob Marley cover
UFO-ria on Smile Jamaica. Get weightless and float on
Greetings,
Smile Jamaica Presents a lesson in Astro-Theology
On (or thereabouts) the 4th of July 1947, an Alien spacecraft crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. Smile Jamaica celebrates 3 hours of Alien stylee; 1 min. 16 sec.
Roswell Daily R soecord: July 9, 1947 – no doubt they crashed, so Extra Terrestrials are real
<Two stories on the date of the Roswell crash>
True story on Roswell:
My brother in law sells high tech pipe to agricultural, research labs, salsa manufacturers. He lives in Albuquerque but travels the length of New Mexico.
One day in Roswell he asked his customer about the 1947 UFO crash. Was it real or bullflop?
His customer said: the local mortuary owner, salt of the earth rural America. Veteran. Straight shooter. The Air Force came to him and asked him to provide 3 children’s size coffins.
“If that’s what he said, that’s how it happened”
Roswell 1947 – Do not scoff!
Look to the skies! Do not scoff!
bless, robt
Smile Jamaica’s Alien media consumption
Friday Nights
Ancient Aliens TV – Friday Nights on the History Channel. This explores the various connections between Earth’s history and Alien contact before there was recorded history.
<My love of Sumerian history led to UFO-ria; > 2 min 6 sec
Basically Aliens from Nibiru called Anunnaki (Those who came down from the sky) who came to Earth b/c we had the gold they needed for their ruined planet. They were essentially too lazy to mine the gold themselves so they created a race of humans to do the work. When the humans got too noisy, they were destroyed with a flood.
Click image for a better view of how Nibiru’s orbit intersects with Earth and the Sun
The 12th Planet Nibiru – 9 planets, Earth’s moon, the Sun, Nibiru. Elliptical orbit from outside the galaxy toward the Sun
Every 3600 years the orbit of Nibiru approaches earth: The Anunnaki drop their space ships to space ports in:
Sumer (lower Iraq)
Sinai (Egypt) – the pyramids are guide posts for entry
Baalbek (Syria)
Mohenjo Daro (Pakistan)
Humans mine the gold. Nibiru whips around the sun heading back out to the edge of our Universe, the ships go up and land on Nibiru for the journey home.
They will be back in 3440 AD.
2. Zecharia Sitchin
An Azerbaijani Jew who translated thousands of cuneiform texts that showed what we know from the Bible and Greek Mythology were actually much older from original source stories from Sumer.
His book series, Earth Chronicles, discusses these topics
Zecharia Sitchin – the original Astro Theologist7 volumes of Aliens on Earth. Stories from the Bible and Greek Mythology came after their Sumerian originals
What have I learned from my bingewatching and binge reading?
All those stories from the Bible and parts of stories from Greek Mythology, Iraqi A Thousand and One Nights, Hindi religious literature is all “plagiarized” from my ancestors the Sumerians (I am an Assyrian from that area on my mom’s side. Assyrians adapted from the Sumerian cosmology).
What is in the Bible or world literature that relates to Alien space travel?
In the immortal words of Prince Far I – the humble calf, suckles the most milk
Greetings,
During the last year of Reagan. Who funded the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives thru the Student Loan Program.
KRCL was looking for graveyard shows. I was picked for late Sunday/early Monday AM. The show? 3 o’clock Roadblock – 3 hours of Reggae and World sounds at 3am during the coldest winter in 40 years in Salt Lake City.
<Smile Jamaica bio; 37 sec.>
You gots to pay your dues to get the prime time. I did graveyard for a year and decided that was enough. Then my bredrin, Rutabaga Reese, who was hosting Smile Jamaica was looking to transition out. So I sat in with him from Oct. ’89 til Summer of ’90 when he “retired”. I took over the chair, planted my flag and 28 years later it’s Saturday afternoon Roots Reggae ‘n’ Dub fix
<Early morning before prime time – gotta pay your dues; 23 sec.>
So it was the tail end of June, June 25th probably that I flicked the switch and started the Ark-Ive. Celebrate that legacy with all vinyl
No digital for I ‘n’ I
bless, robt
28 Years of Reggae Radio: Smile Jamaica June 25, 2016 Playlist; 1 min 8 sec.
Set 1 – All Vinyl 28 Years
Jimmy Riley – Summertime; 12” (DEB) ’76 cover of Porgy & Bess classic
King Tubby – Dub From the Roots; Dub From the Roots (Attack) ’74 dub album of the hour
Papa Kojie & Blue Riddim – Nancy Reagan Re-Election Remix (Ora International) ’85 St. Louis
<Nancy & Ron a gwan a Russia; 23 sec.>
Edi Fitzroy – Youthman Penitentiary; Dreadlocks Party (Alligator) ’82 Chicago blues label
Michael Smith – Picture No Pictures; Mi Cyaan Believe It (Mango) ’82 LKJ produced dub poet
Tapper Zukie – Cally Dolly; I Man Ah Warrior (mer) ’77 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
Bloodfire Posse – Get Flat; Are You Ready (CBS) ’86 UK, Jamaican dance, “get flat while bullets fly overhead”
Robert Mapplethorpe. 4 down, 46 to go!
Set 2: Roots Dawta vinyl
Casselberry & DuPree’ – Comin’ in From the Cold; City Down (Icebergg) ’86 Milwaukee
Main Attractions – Jam Up, Jam Down; Roots, Rock, Reggae (Creole) ’78 Fr.
Singers & Players feat. Sister B – Holy Scripture; Vacuum Pumping (ON U Sound) ’88 UK Adrian Sherwood
Aisha – Don’t Tire; Daughters of Zion (Twinkle) ’93 UK
Set 3:
Prince Far I – Natty Champion; Jamaican Heroes (Trojan) ’80 UK: boxing Babylon loses to Natty Dread
Morwells – Reggae Party; Wiser Dread (Nighthawk) ’82 St. Louis
Sister Carol – Show Business; Liberation For Africans (Serious Gold) ’83 NY
Musical Youth – Pass the Dutchie (Special Dub Mix); ’83 12” EP
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.
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