<UFOria on Smile Jamaica. Roswell UFO 71st Anniversary; 24 sec.>
Greetings,
Got my Ancient Aliens T Shirt on. Too hot to venture outside. As I type this, I am cool as a fool in Sunday school, pulling together UFOria 2.0.
Ancient Astronaut Theorist/Head of Trump’s Space Force
The infamous sequel to last year’s 70th anniversary of the Roswell UFO crash. Weather balloon my ass!
On or about July 2, 1947 a space ship crashed near Roswell, New Mexico. The local Army tried to squelch rumors of a downed ship.
But I have inside info….
Happy #Roswell#UFO Anniversary. July 2, 1947, a UFO crashed down. My bro in law had a sales territory in Roswell. Locals said the undertaker was told to bring 3 child size coffins to the air base. Who u believe? My 3rd hand info or the Government? Weather ballon my ass! #laienspic.twitter.com/MWZY3V6FTB
Why would anyone need coffins for a collapsed weather balloon? Hmm.
And what is the Ancient Sumerian/Anunnaki connection?
I often get asked by #UFO newbies regarding the connection between the #Anunnaki, mankind and #UFOs. This DVD would make a good primer for those who want to learn more. pic.twitter.com/f3dadQD1z3
So do not scoff and look to the skies. Lots of cameos celebrating all .things extra terrestrial. Aliens in the Bible Stories too. (Stairway to Heaven? Ramp to UFO!
Closen Encounters of the Third Kind – going up the Stairway to Heaven
Elton John. Livicated from Donald Trump to Kim Jong Un. Rolling Stones. Maybe the Carpenters? Nuff Reggae but tons of Mutant Dub
UFO + euphoria = UFOria.
Debuts this year will include Joe Cocker and Mr. Spock – Leonard Nimoy. On Smile Jamaica!
Live long and prosper!
<Leonard Nimoy debut on Smile Jamaica; 22 sec.>
Now that Giorgio Tsoukalos is Head of Donald Trump’s Space Force, you will be required to learn Astronaut Theory. Listen and learn.
<Space Force; 48 sec.>
Meet Donald Trump’s new Space Force Commander
Bless, Bobbylon
Minister of Lunar Agriculture – Space Dust Harvest
<Help me celebrate 30 years of Reggae Radio; 7 sec.>
Greetings,
After six weeks of Radio training, I ‘n’ I made my radio debut (most likely) July 2, 1988. KRCL 90.9FM was the station. 3 o’clock Roadblock was the show. Hot summer night I cruised down to the station located at 800 S. 200 W. in SLC and dropped the needle pon the record for the very first time.
Well stocked with tunes funded by the Student Loan Program….
<Special thanx to Ronald Wilson Reagan; 39 sec.>
Ronald Wilson Reagan – Rastas called him 666. But he gave me student loan cash to build the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ive
3-6 AM Sunday nights/Morning morning. Named after the Bob Marley tune, but I always led off with a Black Uhuru tune – the group that got me into Reggae. Hook, line and sinker.
<July 88 to Aug 89: 3 o’Clock Roadblock on KRCL; 24 sec.>
3 o’clock Roadblock from July 1988 to Aug. 1989 on KRCL
The first time I guest hosted Smile Jamaica, I was so nervous I couldn’t cue up a record!; 20 sec.
But I got the hang of it and after 30 years, (56% of my entire life). And spinning tunes on Saturdays is my favorite thing on earth to do. 23 sec.
So on today’s Ark-Ive let us celebrate that legacy with 40 tracks that I might have played that first Summer night at 3 in the morning to Night owls, insomniacs and graveyard shifters. Thank you for listening along the way
bless, Bobbylon
Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives – 30 Years of Reggae Radio Playlist: June 30, 2018; 96 sec.
The very first song of a 30 year Reggae Radio legacy. Selah!
Set 1:
Black Uhuru – Party Next Door; Anthem (Island) ’83: 30 years of Reggae Radio
❤ o’clock Roadblock used to start every show with Black Uhuru; 16 sec.>
Augustus Pablo – Roadblock; Ital Dub (Trojan) ’75 UK vinyl dub album of the hour – 3 O’clock Roadblock 1988-89
Naturalites – Picture on the Wall; Rub-a-Dubble vol. 1 (CSA) ’86
<The best Reggae song of all time; 65 sec.>
Culture – Down in Jamaica; Cumbolo (Shanachie) ’79
Sister Carol – Black Cinderealla; Black Cinderella (Heartbeat/Jah Life) ’84
Ethiopians – Well Red; Original Reggae Hit Sound (Trojan) early 70’s 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
Don Carlos – Prophecy; Prophecy (Blue Moon) ’84
This LP made me a Reggae fanatic Fall 1986
Set 2:
Burning Spear – Distant Drums; People of the World (Blue Moon) ’88
Aswad – Bubbling; To the Top (Simba) ’86 UK
Carol Kalphat & Clint Eastwood – African Land/African Melody; ON U Sounds Presents the Reggae Archives vol. 1 (ON U Sound) ’79 Hit Run 12″
Tower Records, Las Vegas
Set 3:
Eddy Grant – Electric Avenue; Killer on the Rampage (Ice) ’83
Pablo Moses – Dubbing Is a Must; A Song (Mango) ’80
Smile Jamaica is a Roots Reggae radio program. Other than the Mutant Dub I spin in the last half hour, I would venture that 80% plus of what I have played for nearly 30 years comes from around 1970-1985. The Wailers, Burning Spear, Culture and their Rasta co-horts.
Turn off your Wolf Blitzers, Sean Hannity and Rachel Maddow and get your news from this guy: Burning Spear
So much great heartical music about peace and love, socialism (small s), the plight of the poor and the 400 year legacy of slavery in Jamaica.
Songs from that era chanting down Babylon. Still have resonance and prophecy today. So when the outrage of immigrant children in cages hit the news cycle, I knew the perfect song to play.
o t Same thing for breakfast: 2014 under Obama’s Presidency
On community radio Deejays are not allowed to espouse political support for any cause, candidate or party. I don’t need to do that. I can let the music do the talking.
Jimmy Riley – Have mercy upon poor immigrants. When Occupy Wall Street went hot, it was so easy and enjoyable to string a whole 3 hour Ark-ive backing the 99%ers.
Theme song: Peter Tosh – The Day the Dollar Died (1978)
That is why Reggae music from 40 plus years ago still has relevance. The Dreads and Dawtas warned us it would come to this. That is why you should listen to Smile Jamaica and ignore the Fake News Media
1979 Reggae. Fire bun the CIA News Network
bless, Bobbylon
Smile Jamaica Annotated Playlist: June 23, 2018; 52 sec.
Set 1:
Jimmy Riley – Summer Time; 12″ (DEB) 70’s cover of Porgy & Bess Broadway tune
Jimmy Riley – Poor Immigrant; Put the People First (Shanachie) ’82
Black Uhuru – Chill Out; Liberation Anthology (Island) 2 disk best of ’83
Gladiators – Dub ina Babylon; Singles Collection (Heartbeat/Studio One)
Gracy & Herbman Band – Forward Up; See Mi Yah (Funfundvierzig) ’91 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement; female singer
<Canada legalizes cannabis; 12 sec.>
Eek a Mouse – Wild Like Tiger; 10″ (Hit Bound) ’83 JA
Crystalites – Rasta Is Love; Scrub a Dub (Crystal) ’74 JA vinyl dub album of the Hour
9 down plus Canada, 41 to go!
Set 2:
Bunny Wailer – Wake Up and Live; Hall of Fame (RAS) ’95; 50 Bob covers
Belle Stars – Miss World; 80’s Romance (Salvo) ’81 UK New Wave female group
Daweh Congo – Herb Tree; Human Rights & Justice (Roots & Culture) 2000 herb tune
And Happy Father’s Day to my Pops in Fort Benton Montana; 50 sec.
My Pops is pretty much the typical Dad. Stoic and serious but prone to the usual tried and true way of American Child Rearing:
<Do as I say. Not as I do! 17 sec.>
Love the guy.
So I spent last Saturday in the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives harvesting Father’s Day tunes Had enough for 2 and 1/2 hour. (More Mother’s Day for some reason? Considering Jah the Father, that was surprising.)
All time favorite Father’s Day song is one that still brings a tear to my eye. Charlie Ace – Father and Dreadlocks
<Preacher’s son goes to college, returns a Rastaman 76 sec.>
Father and Dread Locks – Charlie Ace (lyrics transcribed by Bobbylon)
Hail Daddy-man!
Wha’ppen when him come for the Holidays
Yes-I! Whap’n rate up a draw of herb fi I place y’know!
Son – who dat? No Parson’s son turn Rastaman!
Yes-I! Man sight the fullness y’know?
Parson send him one son fi (to) college for the study of religious knowledge
Some day the boy decides to come home for Holiday
But when he enter him home something strange happen
He wasn’t wearing slicker suit
He wasn’t wearing big heel boots
He was wearing dungarees and sandals
And when he moved his tam from his head
Parson frightened til him was drop down dead
When him natty dreadlocks drop to the ground
So, his Dad looked at him and said:
My son, my son what comes over you? What happened?
You pass your GCE and sit upon University. What happened?
I work morning, noon and night to get you there. What happened?
He said, Daddy you don’t understand like I do
But Jah has called upon I
I have sight of the Promised Land
Daddy, I know the way you feel but one day you will understand
My son, what is the plan for the future?
He said: Daddy, I plan to use my education to defend human rights, equality and justice throughout the Universe
This time the Mother is in the kitchen cooking the best dressed chicken
So she run when she realize her one son was home to greet her one son
When she sight Natty Dreadlocks she nearly drop down dead
She said: My son, my son. What are we going to tell the people of the neighborhood?
He said: Mom, tell them that the power of Jah is moving on-ya!
Charlie Ace and his mobile record store selling 7″ 45’s
The power of Jah is moving on indeed. Enjoy these tributes to the Dads with some Aliencon UFOria in the last half hour
<Aliencon plus Smile Jamaica UFOria in July for Roswell; 1 min. 40 sec.>
bless, Bobbylon
Smile Jamaica Annotated Playlist: June 16, 2018; 106 sec.
Set 1:
Prince Alla – In My Father’s House; Evil Forces (Calabash) ’84
<John 14:2; 9 sec.>
Miami vinyl: Happy Father’s Day: John 14:2 In my father’s house there are many mansions
King Tubby – Many Moods of the King; I Am the King 3 (Sprint) Dub Album of the Hour
Charlie Ace & Scorcher – Father and Dread Locks; 7” (Studio One) JA
David Isaacs – Good Father; Complete UK Upsetter Singles Collection vol. 1 (Trojan) ‘69
Yellowman & Fathead – Baby Father; The Yellow, The Purple and The Nancy (Greensleeves) ’82 UK
Errol Dunkley – Created By the Father; Darling Ooh (Attack) ‘72
Israel Vibration – Universal Father; Why You So Craven (Arrival) ’81 JA vinyl
Alton Ellis – Papa; 7” (Clintones) ’75 US
Set 2:
Ky-Mani Marley – Dear Dad; CD Single (Gee Street) ’98, Bob’s son
<Ky-Mani born 1976, Bob passed May 1981; 28 sec.>
Gregory Isaacs – Created By the Father; Cool Ruler (Virgin Front Line) ’78 UK vinyl
Simple Simon – Obey Your Mother & Father; Reggae Move (Vista Sounds) ’85 UK
Desmond Dekker – Honor Your Father & Mother; Israelites (Trojan) ska
Dillinger – Daddy Joseph; 12” (A & M) ’81 US Biblical Prophet Joseph
Daddy Joseph from the Old Testament
Set 3:
Black Roots – The Father; On the Frontline (Makasound) ‘83
Freddy McKay – Father Will Cut You Off; 7” (Money Disc) ‘83
Capital Letters – Daddy is No Murderer; Headline News (Greensleeves) ’79 UK youth group w/ male & female vox
Cedric ‘Im Brooks – Song For My Father; Light of Saba (Honest Jon’s) ’75 horns instrumental
Scientist – 11 Guava Road Dub; King of Dub (Kingdom) ’81 Dub Album of the Hour
Set 4:
Derrick Morgan – Don’t Call Me Daddy; The Legend of Derrick Morgan (Imperial) ’80 Can. – Chinese baby to a dreadlock
Johnny Clarke – Don’t Call I Daddy; Don’t Trouble Trouble (Attack) ’75; cover of Derrick Morgan
Mighty Maytones – Father & Mother; Madness (Burning Sounds) ’76 UK
Big Youth – Mommy Hot, Daddy Cool; Reggae Phenomenon (Trojan) ’75 to Some Like It Hot
Dennis Brown – Created by the Father; Best of – The Niney Years (Heartbeat) ‘79
Jackie Mittoo – Dad Is Home; Macka Fat (Studio One) ’71 organ take on Shep & the Limelites Daddy’s Home doowoop
Set 5: Vinyl is Vital
Ras Michael & the Sons of Negus – Don’t Sell Daddy No Whiskey; Love Thy Neighbour (Jah Life) ’79 Brooklyn; Black Ark/Lee “Scratch” Perry mix
Utah Medical Marijuana in 2018? Life elevated indeed!
Greetings,
Congratulation to the hard workers who want to add Utah (Utah!?) to the list of states with Medical Marijuana. If successful, Utah would be the 30th state with either Medical or legal status for cannabis.
154,000 (including I ‘n’ I) voted for this initiative to make the ballot. It’s about time. Especially in Utah under the crushing weight of opioid deaths and over medication of anti-depressants.
It’s not about kickin’ the bong around. This plant has been with us for 10,000 years of mankind. We have cannabinoid receptors in our brain! The Sumerians called it the Tree of Life. It wasn’t an apple Eve partook of in the Garden of Eden.
Hey Marduk, don’t bogart that Tree of Life. Puff, puss pass it pon the left hand side!
And for any Blble enthusiasts. It wasn’t an Apple that gave Eve knowledge in the Garden of Eden. It was Cannabis. Unless they used an apple bong
2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
****
Fruit of the Tree? Buds off the Cannabis plant. Nothing about apples. Biblical “fake news”
Hey Adam, let’s twist up a spliff. We can eat apples when we get the munchies
All I ‘n’ I can say is:
Get registered to vote
On election day 2018, wake ‘n bake
Get in your car, bike, pony, walk or skank to the polls
Vote yes for cannabis compassion
Don’t let governments, cops nor religions dissuade you
Maureen Thomas and Jim Nastic(?) – Wicked Intention; Untitled (Studio One) JA
A++ record out of Canada
Wailers Family Tree
Bob Marley & the Wailers – I Need You; Wailing Wailers (Studio One) ’65 JA vinyl
<Wailers at Studio One 1 min.;>
Bunny Wailer – Ambush; Hall of Fame (RAS) ’95 50 Bob tunes for his 50th birthday
Peter Tosh – I’m the Toughest; Dealing With the Shytstem (bootleg) 11/5/82 Live at the Roxy, LA CA
The Melody Makers feat. Stephen Marley – Sugar PIe; Reggae Sunsplash 1981 Tribute to Bob Marley (Elektra) ’81 live in Montego Bay, JA
King Tubby – Natty Dub; Roots of Dub (Moll-Selekta) ’75 Dub Album of the Hour
The Wailers first LP in 1965
Set 7:
Iration – The End; Time Bomb (Law) 2010 Isla Vista, Collie-fornya
Dubblestandart feat. Gudrun – Summerrain; Are You Experienced (Collision) 2006 Germany w/ female vox
Pama International – Evening Time; Float Like a Butterfly (Asian Man) 2005 UK ska/dance supergroup, herbtune
Matic Horns – Yanga!; 10″ (Sip a Cup) UK militant steppers instrumental
Isla Vista, Collie-fornya
Set 8: Mutant Dub
Thievery Corporation feat. Pamela Bricker – Lebanese Blonde (French Version); Lebanese Blonde CD Single (4ad) ’98 female vox, herbtune: Mutant Dub Set Noiseshaper Daemons; Rough Out There (Echo Beach) 2005 Jah-stria Sandeeno – Put Down the Guns; Universal Roots UK Reggae Stars (Universal Roots) Ripple & Taso – Gimme the Fiya; Bay Area Dub Step volume 3 (Full Melt) 2011
Now that we hit June, it’s Reggae Season as I ‘n’ I celebrate the last month on 2 decades of Reggae Radio before I celebrate 30 years in July; 1988-2018. From Reagan to the Cheetolini. All killer, no filler
I tried to warn you. Earlier in 2018, KRCL ran a station ID that touted the ability to listen to the station stream via personal electronic devices like Alexa from Amazon.
I came on air and said, “You know those gadgets report your conversations to the NSA.” I even ran in to a listener at the University of Utah campus who thanked me for the heads up.
I tired to warn you about Facebook a decade ago as well
If you ever listened to my political interviews on KRCL’s Radioactive you would know my world view is a tad askew: 9/11, JFK, Roswell and Skygods/Ancient Astronauts travelling from the outer galaxy. (Hint, it was Bin Laden on the Grassy Knoll.)
All those bongrips in your living room and recorded and sent to Bluffdale Utah.
NSA Spyhub in Bluffdale, Utah
I was correct about Obama beating Hillary in 2008 and Trump beating Hillary in 2016. How was I rewarded for my prognostication? My brother now calls me “Alex Jones.”
Haters can hate. Maybe you shouldn’t scoff when I say look to the skies.
Went to Albuquerque last week for some family time. My nephew’s High School graduation. So I spend some time in my Secret Dubratory cooking up another 3 hour Reggae Special. Livicated to all the fallen heroes and heroines of Reggae – singing and playing in Jah’s Heavenly Choir on behalf of Memorial Day.
bless, Bobbylon
0-30 min.
King Tubby//African Brothers – Original Dub; In Dub (Nature Sounds)
Dennis Brown – Man Next Door; The Best of Dennis Brown – The Niney Years (Heartbeat) ’79 Paragons cover
Mikey Dread – Proper Educaton; Dread at the Controls (DATC) ’79
Bim Sherman – It Must Be a Dream + Dreaming Dub: Bim Sherman Meets Horace Andy & U Black in a Rub-a-Dub Style (Original) ’79
Ari Up – Kill Em With Love; Dread More Dan Dead (Collision) 2005 former member of female punk group The Slits
Bob and his beloved mother, Cedella. Happy Mother’s Day from Smile Jamaica!
Greetings,
To my beloved mother, Jeannette and my sister, Stacey. Happy Mother’s Day to all the Mother’s, Mom’s, Mommies & Mamas.
Harvested tracks out of the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ive celebrating motherhood.
By tradition, I will always begin each show with this beautiful country ballad about a youth who does chores, babysits and gets good grades. Youthman tallies up his bill and presents it to mom for reimbursement.
Mom, takes a look and this is what she says:
<No Charge>
No Charge by Tammy Wynette, Reggae version by Sonya Spence
Now our little boy came up to his mom In the kitchen this evenin’ while she was fixin’ supper And he handed her a piece of paper he’d been writin’ on And after wipin’ her hands on her apronn
She read it, and this is what it said. For mowin’ the lawn, five dollars For makin’ my own bed this week, one dollar And for goin’ to the store, fifty cents An’ playin’ with little brother while you went shoppin’, twenty-five cents. Takin’ out the trash, one dollar Gettin’ a good report card, five dollars And for rakin’ the yard, two dollars Total owed, fourteen seventy-five. Well, as mom looked at him standin’ there expectantly And I could see the mem’ries flashing through her mind And so she picked up the pen, and turnin’ the paper over This is what she wrote. For the nine months I carried you growin’ inside me, no charge For the nights I’ve sat up with you Doctored you, and prayed for you, no charge For the time and the tears That you’ve cost through the years, there’s no charge And when you add it all up The full cost of my love is no charge. For the nights filled with dread And all the worries ahead, no charge For advice and the knowledge And the cost of your college, no charge For the toys, food and clothes and even for wipin’ your nose There’s no charge, son And when you add it all up The full cost of my love is, no charge. Well, when he finished readin’ He had great big old tears in his eyes And he looked up at her standing there and said Mama, I sure do love you Then he took the pen, And in great big letters He wrote paid in full. Lord knows when you add it all up The cost of real love is, no charge…
bless, Bobbylon
This one will bring a tear to your I ‘n’ I
Smile Jamaica Annotated Playlist: May 12, 2018 – 3 Hours Mother’s Day; 38 sec.
Set 1:
Paul Simon – Mother and Child Reunion; Paul Simon (Warner Bros.) ’72
<Paul Simon at Dynamic Studios: Kingston JA; 23 sec.>
Mother Earth – The Quiet Storm; A Breath of Fresh Air (Ariwa) ’84 UK vinyl dub album of the hour
Sonya Spence – No Charge; In the Dark (Skynote) ’78 Tammy Wynette mother’s day
Mighty Diamonds – Hey Mommy; Speak the Truth (RAS) ’94
Burning Spear – Mother; Man in the Hills (mango) ’76 US vinyl
Daweh Congo – Mother Arose; Human Rights & Justice (Roots & Culture) 2004
Desmond Dekker – Honor Your Father & Mother; Israelites: Best of (Trojan) ’63
Paul Simon paid union wages while recording in Jamaica.
Set 2:
Jimmy Cliff – Dear Mother; Follow My Mind (MCA) ’75
Peter Roots – Poor Mama; 7″ (Belleville International) 2002 Fr.
Black Roots – Childless Mother; All Day, All Night (Nubian) ’87 UK
Papa Levi – Baby Mother; 12″ (Jah Records)) ’86 UK picture sleeve
Set 3:
Nicky Thomas – Mama’s Song; Love of the Common People (Trojan) ’70
Heptones – Mama Say; Night Food (Mango) ’76 US vinyl
Jah Messengers – Mama Mama; Reggae Time (Heartbeat) ’93
Lloyd Charmers & the Hippy Boys – Mama Look Deh; Psychedelic Reggae (Trybute) ’69
Reggay Boys – Mama Look Deh; 7″ (Amalgamated) ’68
Chosen Brothers – Mother I Love You; 12″ (City Line) ’77 Bronx
Ja Man All Stars – Dub Zone; In the Dub Zone (Blood and Fire) ’77 Dub Album of the Hour
Set 4: Jamaican Jukebox 7″ 45’s
Benjamin Zephaniah – I Love Me Mudder; Dub Ranting 7″ EP (Radical Wallpaper) ’82 UK picture sleeve: 7″ Jamaican Jukebox set
Barry Brown – Thank You Mama; 7″ (Observer) ’83
Dennis Brown – Song My Mother Used to Sing; 7″ (Aquarius)
Doctor Alimantado – Mama (I Thank You); 7″ (Vital Food) ’77
Chantells – Baby Mother; 7″ (Communicating) ’74
10 poems, 2 sides, 33 and 1/3
Set 5: Vinyl is Vital
Peter Tosh – Mama Africa; Mama Africa (EMI America) ’83 US
Yellowman – Honor Your Mother; Jack Sprat (Hit) ’82 JA
Simple Simon – Obey Your Mother and Father; Reggae Move (Vista Sounds) ’83 UK
Little John – I Love My Mommy; Give the Youth a Try (Live & Learn) ’83 DC
The Meditations – Mother Love; No More Friend (Greensleeves) ’83 UK
Set 6:
Cedella Marley Booker – Mother Don’t Cry; Awake Zion (Rykodisc) ’84 on Bob’s deathbead: 5/11/81
<Bob going to a better place, “Mother don’t cry”>
Jimmy Riley – Black Mother Prays; 20 Classic Hits (Sonic) ’83
Mighty Maytones – Father and Mother; Madness (Burning Sounds) ’76 UK
Horace Andy – Mother and Child Reunion; Mr. Bassie (Heartbeat/Studio One) Paul Simon
Jah Shaka Meets Aswad – Addis Ababa; In Addis Ababa Studio (Jah Shaka) ’84 Dub Album of the Hour
Mother Don’t Cry, I’m going to a better place
Set 7;
Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals – Mama’s Trippin’; Voodoo Child (bootleg) Bonn, Germany Apr. 1998
Judy Mowatt – Hush Baby Mother; Working Wonders (Shanachie) ’86
Hugh Griffiths – Mother Africa; Mother Africa (My-o-lanta) ’86 UK vinyl
Anthony Johnson – Mother, Mother; Reggae Feelings (Vista Sounds) ’83 UK vinyl
Jamaicans love horse racing too. Every Kentucky Derby Saturday I try to spin a set devoted to Jamaican horse racing. Just as the bugle starts and gates fly, open I drop the bass and go for m own musical horse race.
In Jamaica, their main track is called Caymanas Park. And the jockeys tend to be Chinese-Jamaicans rather than Latin Americans, as in the US.
<Caymanas Park; 39 sec.>
And because this is Reggae, the best song is a track by Bojangles from when the Two Sevens Clashed (’77) on a grooving Culture riddim, he relays the race between these contenders in the Selassie I Cup: 24 sec.
Babylon 2-1
Soul Youth 3-1
Rome – Even
Pope Pius 3-5 (the guy in the Vatican in 1977)
Dreadlocks 8-1
Baldhead 15-1
Win! – Dreadlocks
Place! – Baldhead
Show! – Soul Youth
And here is what happened to Pope Pius….22 sec.
Pope Pius couldn’t finish out in the Selassie I Cup and the ambulance was called — Bojangles, ’77
bless, Bobbylon
Smile Jamaica Annotated Playlist: May 5, 2018; 90 sec.
Set 1:
Jah Lloyd – Reggae Feeling; Black Moses (Virgin Front Line) ’79 UK vinyl to Mike Brooks
Armagideon – Spiral Galaxy; 12″ (Dubhead) ’96 UK mutant dub vinyl of the hour
Big Youth – Hit the Road Jack (Tribute to Bob, Peter, Bunny); Jamming in the House of Dread (Danceteria) 8/20/90 Live at Reggae Japansplash
Sandra Cross & the Wild Bunch – Free South Africa; Roots Daughters (Ariwa) ’88
Little John – Smoke Ganga (sic) Hard; 10″ (Well Charge) ’81 JA 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
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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