Mille, a/k/a Millie Small, born in Clarendon, Jamaica, is the 1960s ska, bluebeat, and rocksteady singer who is most famous for her 1964 smash hit “My Boy Lollipop.” Her fourth recording, “My Boy Lollipop,” was cut in London by a group of session musicians that included guitarist Ernest Ranglin (and,…
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Michael Campbell, better known as Mikey Dread, is a Jamaican singer, producer, and broadcaster. He was born in 1954 in Port Antonio, Jamaica, West Indies. Mikey Dread displayed a natural talent for engineering and electronics. After he finished college, Campbell started out as an engineer with the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation…
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The Skatalites are a ska band from Jamaica. They played initially between 1963 and 1965, and recorded many of their best known songs in the period, including Guns of Navarone. They also played on records by Prince Buster and backed many other Jamaican artists who recorded during that period. They…
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What is a rude boy? What is a rude girl? What does ‘to be rude’ mean? Today, it simply means that you’re a dedicated member of the ska scene. If you have a good ska collection, if you dress up in a way that indicates that you like ska, if…
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Back in the 1980s, in the early days of MTV and the music video, there was an obscure one-hit wonder that was actually a novelty song from the comedy rock team of Barnes and Barnes. The song/video is called Fish Heads and it is all about what fish can do…
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There has been a new beat lurking around the music scene for about 10 years in North America. The new beat, or sound, is called reggaeton (pronounced reggae-tone) and it is urban music that became popular with the youths of Latin America. Reggaeton, since becoming popular in Latin America, has…
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“The most beautiful guitar in the world.” That is what the sales literature from Gretsch called their Model 6136 White Falcon. Angelic in form and celestial in sound, the White Falcon is one of the most highly treasured and most expensive guitars ever made. Appearing at the same time as…
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The nerds are out for revenge again! Or, at least some street cred, with their latest venture – Nerdcore Hip-Hop. Nerdcore is a subgenre of hip-hop that is created by nerds and we suppose for nerds as well. Nerdcore has sometimes been called geeksta rap and its subject matter and…
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When someone mentions the Wall of Sound, what comes to mind is usually the signature sound of Phil Spector that he created by using dense layers of sound with large amounts of reverb. He used this recording technique because the sound reproduced very well on small record players, jukeboxes and…
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