Showing posts with label Bluebeat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bluebeat. Show all posts

Saturday, March 9, 2019

#542 :: Jamaican Blues Tribute to Fats Domino (6 March 2019)

Here's a wee tribute to Fats Domino. Many Jamaican artists covered songs that Fats Domino co-wrote or covered himself. His New Orleans styled Rhythm and Blues was very influential on Jamaican Ska. Songs 1-11 are tributes to Fats by Jamaican artists. They are loose interpretations but incorporate some elements of The Fat Man's sound. The rest of the episode is a cool mix of Jamaican RnB. Enjoy!

The Supersonics - The Saint (The Saints Go Marching In)
Cock & The Woodpeckers - Valley Of Tears
Millie Small - Let The Four Winds Blow
Winston Groovy - Josephine
Ewan & Jerry With The Caribbeats - Oh Babe (Sick And Tired)
The Superboys - Ain't That A Shame
Eric Morris - Going to the River
Alton Ellis - Something You've Got
Douglas Brothers - Valley Of Tears
Ben Harper with Skatalites - Be My Guest
Dennis Alcapone - Gun's Don't Argue (Number One Station aka Rock To The Beat)
Low Down Dirty Girl - Laurel Aitken with Duke Reid & His Group
Easy Snapping - Clue J's Blues Blasters with vocal by Theophilus Beckford
Go Pretty Baby Go - Bobby Kingdom & The Blue Beats
Jamaica Blues - Azie Lawrence
I Wanna Love - Jiving Juniors with Duke Reid & His Group
Manny Oh - Higgs & Wilson with Ken Richards & His Comets




Saturday, September 1, 2018

#516 :: Tribute to Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25, 1942 – August 16th, 2018)

Songs originally done by, or covered by, the amazing Aretha Franklin, inna Jamaican stylee. 
Rest Easy Queen of Soul. Diva of divas. 

Marvels - Rock Steady
Lloyd Charmers - Travelling On
BB Seaton - Thin Line Between Love & Hate
Dave Barker - Just My Imagination
The Marvels - THINK
Jow White - Try A Little Tenderness
Ambassa feat. Nichola Richards - One Step Ahead
Prince Buster - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Johnny Osbourne - People Get Ready
Bob & Marcia - To Be Young Gifted and Black
Marcia Griffiths - Sweet Bitter Love
Diana King - Say A Little Prayer
Lee Scratch Perry & Pat Kelly - The Dark end Of The Street
Norma Fraser - Respect 
Soul Dimension - Soulful Strut
Jackie Mendez - Forever True
Derrick Morgan - Don't Play That Song


Friday, March 21, 2014

Roy Panton AKA The Mighty Ruler Interview: Part One (GFR#285)


GO FEET! Radio # 285, 19 March 2014
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Jamaican legend Roy Panton aka The Mighty Ruler joins me on this episode of GO FEET! Radio for the first of a two-part series. From Toronto, Canada, where he and his wife, Yvonne Harrison of ‘Roy and Yvonne‘, have made their home since Roy left Jamaica in 1972. Roy was one of the first in Jamaican to be recorded as a singing duo and he tells all about this time. He tells of experiences with revered Jamaican producers and how he was present when Jamaican music evolved from Bluebeat to Ska to Rocksteady. Get your ears around this, kick of your work shoes and get ready to shuffle your feet. This is GO FEET! Radio. Enjoy!

1. Roy Panton – Ohh La La (Liquidator Music)
2. The Skatalites – After The Rain
3. Roy Ellis with Thee Hurricanes – Can You Feel It
4. The Beatdown – You Never Know
5. Bandits – Magnum Bullet
6. Pat Kelly with Intensified – You Don’t Care
((( Interview with Roy Panton aka The Mighty Ruler )))
7. Drumbago All Stars – Duck Soup
8. Drumbago & The Dynamites – Drumbago
9. Roy Panton – The Mighty Ruler
10. Busters Allstars – Poison On Beeson Street
11. Monty & Roy – Shes Mine
12. Monty & Roy – Girl Of My Dreams
13. Monty & Roy – Jenny
14. Owen & Millie – Sugar Plum
15. Roy Panton – Endless Memory
16. Rico with the Matador Allstars – Continental Shuffle
17. Theophilius Beckford – Easy Snappin’
18. The Skatalites – Cool Smoke
19. Byron Lee and the Dragonaires – Joy Ride
14. Byron Lee and the Dragonaires – Fat Back
15. Upcoming Willows & The Skatalites – Red China
16. The Shifters – Dance With You
17. Los Granadians and Derrick Morgan – What It Takes To Love Me
18. Los Granadians – Reggae Clam Clam
19. Shaggy feat. Peetah Morgan and Tessanne Chin – Deadly Love
20. Clinton Fearon – Poor Nana