Greetings,
School is in session. Quick upload of last week’s Smile Jamaica . Be sure to play through the last 45 minutes with Mutant Dub selections by guest Mixcloud deejay from Ogden: Nerd Show !
bless, Bobbylon
Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives Jah-tember 7, 2019: Annotated Playlist ; 50 sec.
https://smilejamaicakrcl.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/intro090719.mp3
Set 1:
Prince Far I – Natty Champion; Jamaican Heroes (Trojan) ’80 UK vinyl Natural Roots – Control Tower Dub; Natural Roots (Onlyroots) ’84 Fr. vinyl dub album of the hour Bunny Wailer – Rainbow Country; Hall of Fame (RAS) ’95 50 Bob Marley songs for his 50th Birthday Aisha – Crisis; True Roots (Ariwa) ’94 Aswad – Roxanne; Big Up (Gut) ’97 Police cover Rastafarmers – International Herb; Dread in America (Natural Mystic) ’94 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement Dennis Brown & Welton Irie – Man Next Door; 12″ (Joe Gibbs Record Globe) ’79 Opa Locka, FL: Paragons cover
Set 2
Dillinger – Natty Kung Fu; When Rhythm Was King (Heartbeat/Studio One) ’75 Prince Buster – Sata a Masa Gana; Sister Big Stuff (Sunspot) ’72 Abyssinians cover Bush Chemists feat. Talawa – Evil Doers Retire; Light Up Your Chalice (Conscious Sound) ’99 UK mutant dub w/ females vox Lee “Scratch” Perry & Zap Pow – River/River Stone; 12″ (Kingston Connexion) ’77 Fr. Black Ark prod’n
Set 3: Best of Smile Jamaica 29+ Years
Third World – Dreamland; 96 Degrees in the Shade (Mango) ’77 Bunny Wailer cover: Best of Smile Jamaica 29+ Years The Selecter – Celebrate the Bullet; Celebrate the Bullet (Chrysalis) ’81 2 Tone UK Ska w/ Pauline Black on the vox Jah Pelicaho & the Wailers – Dub Jam Rock; 21st Century Dub (ROIR) ’87 Jah-ponese dubber Pablo Gad – Blood Suckers + Dub; Blood Suckers (Melodie) ’78
Set 4:
Peter Tosh – Coming in Hot; Live at the Ritz; Sept. 29, 1981 (bootleg) Sarah B Band – Mali’o; Realign My Mind (Sarah B) 2011 SLC Augustus Pablo & the Upsetters – Lama Lava; 12″ (Daddy Kool) ’79 UK
Set 5: Vinyl Is Vital
Quasar – Get Up Stand Up; Fresh (LASN) US – Wailers cover The Pioneers – Papa Was a Rolling Stone; Freedom Feeling (Trojan) ’73 UK Tyrone Taylor – Mama Soca; Jamming in the Hills (World Enterprise) ’87 US Jah Woosh – African Sound; D.J. Legend (Original) 70’s era UK Millie Small – My Boy Lollipop; Millie Small (Smash) ’64 US
Set 6: Rockers do Reggae
Nerd Show guest deejay: Mutant Dub Hour
Greetings,
After 2 weekends of snow storms, last Saturday in Salt Lake City was shorts weather. Time for Spring Cleaning.
First spring in my newly renovated Smile-Jamaica Ark-Ive
So nice to have all my black wax neatly organized by category:
LP’s (Reggae separated from other formats)
10″
12″
7″
Themes:
Christmas
Dub
Roots Dawtas
Halloween
Herb
Mutant Dub
Marley Tributes
Wailers Family Tree
UFOria
So I decided to celebrate Spring with one of my patented Vinyl rarities for sure-ty editions, Saturday March 10th
Run the tables!
From this:
Summer 2017 – Garage To this:
2018 Smile Jamaica Ark-Ive bless, Bobbylon
Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives March 10, 2018 Annotated Playlist: 70 sec.
https://smilejamaicakrcl.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/intro031018.mp3 Set 1:
Roots Uprising – Beautiful Music; Beautiful Music (Top Ranking) ’81 Miami – 3 hours of Vinyl Augustus Pablo – Chanto King Selassie I; East of the River Nile (Shanachie) ’78 Dub Album of the Hour Judy Mowatt – Rasta Woman Chant; Mellow Mood (Ashandan) ’75 JA Horace Andy – Take It Easy; Exclusively (Solid Groove) ’82 UK K.C. White – Slipping and Sliding; Try a Little Happiness (Zola & Zola) ’96 Neth. Freddie McGregor – Strange Things; High Times All-Star Explosion (Alligator) ’85 Chicago Tinga Stewart – Give Me a Puff; Key to Your Heart (Calabash) ’83 Miami; 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
Set 2:
Bankie Banx – Livin’ It Up; Soothe Your Soul (Redemption) ’82 Anguilla Tony Tuff – Jam It Again; Wha We a Go Do (Top Rank) ’84 JA Papa Finnigan & Junior Ranking – Put the Heathen Back ‘Pon the Wall; Two the Hard Way (Heartbeat) ’83 US – Bob Marley cover Lucy Clark – Hidin’ Away; 12” (Bullet) US
From the island of Anguilla Set 3:
Upsetters – Curly Dub; Super Ape (Mango) ’76 US Flick Wilson – Slave Master; School Days (Jah Life) ’80 Brooklyn Jackie Edwards – I Am Still Waiting; Ravers Rock vol. 2 (Vista Sounds) ’84 UK; Bob Marley cover Carol Cole & David Madden – Settle Down/Settle; 12” (Kingston Connexion) ’85 Fr. Lee Perry – Jah; Black Ark Dub (Esoldun) ’80 Dub Album of the Hour
Set 4:
Prince Far I – Deck of Cards; Jamaican Heroes (Trojan) ’80 UK The Specials – Stereotype Pt. 1 & 2; More Specials (2 Tone) ’80 UK 2 Tone Ska Cornell Campbell – Educate the Children; Stalowatt (Third World) ’76 UK Eek a Mouse & Lui Lepki – Virgin Girl + Lovers Take Over; 12” (Joe Gibbs) ’81 Opa Locka FL
Set 5:
Peter Tosh – 400 Years; Dealing With the Shytstem (bootleg) live at the Roxy, Los Angeles 11/5/82 Sister Carol – Black Cinderella; Black Cinderella (Jah Life) ’84 Brooklyn Peter Metro – Fisherman Connection; Yellowman, Fat Head and the One Peter Metro (Absissa) ’82 JA Bob Marley & the Wailers & Wong Chu – Keep On Moving (Upsetter) ’77 JA Lee “Scratch” Perry prod’n
Bootleg scored at KUSF’s Rock & Swap Set 6:
Jah Thomas – Midnight Blues; Tribute to the Reggae King (Gorgon) ’81 JA I Three – Jealousy; Beginning (EMI America) ’86 US – Judy, Rita and Marcia – Bob Marley’s songbirds
<The I Three after Bunny & Peter left the Wailers; 14 sec.>
https://smilejamaicakrcl.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/ithree031018.mp3
Twinkle Brothers – Everybody Needs Somebody; Age of Reggae (Twinkle) Solomon Burke cover Winston Reedy & Tim Hain – Everyday I Write the Book; 12” (Priority) ’87 UK picture sleeve – Elvis Costell Cover Dry & Heavy – Do Dub Up Your Fight; King Jammy Presents Dry & Heavy in the Jaws of the Tiger (BSI) 2001 Dub Album of the Hour
Set 7:
Millie Small – My Boy Lollipop + Oh, Henry; My Boy Lollipop (Smash) ’64 US ska novelty hit Mighty Invaders feat. Michelle Cole – Ku Klux Klan; Invasion! (Rave) ’83 Syracuse, NY Carl McDonald – Satan Soldiers on the Run; 12” (Makdon) ’87 US
Set 8: Mutant Dub
Bim Sherman & the Voluntary – Yes, We Will; Century (Century) ’84 UK New Age Steppers feat. Bim Sherman – Misplaced Love; Foundation Steppers (ON U Sound) ’83 UK Adrian Sherwood prod’n G.T. Moore & the Outsider – Turn Israel; 10” (Jah Works) ’95 UK Soweto Gospel Choir – Forever Young; Happy Birthday Bob (Uncut) 2001
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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