Rocksteady legends The Tennors are pleased to announce the release of "Jamaica 50". "Music can take a long time to circle the globe. We wanted to make sure that Jamaica 50 wouldn't be a song that is played for a week at independence, but that it instead got a chance to seep into the hearts and minds of the people" , said founding member George Murphy aka Clive Tennors . The Tennors are best known for their smash hits Pressure and Slide, Cleopatra and Ride Yuh Donkey. The trio [...]
Jamaican pioneers The Tennors came along just as the frenzied pace of ska music began to slow into the syncopated drum and bass centered groove of rocksteady. Rocksteady replaced the horn-heavy ska sound with a greater emphasis on vocals, which proved to be the perfect vehicle for the Tennors' talented core of singers. In the back of a taxicab in 1967, they won over Studio One arranger Jackie Mittoo with a version of "Pressure and Slide"—a song that sampled from the Stax Records' single "Ain't That Loving You" by Johnny Taylor. "Pressure and Slide" became the [...]
Every time I call You tell me that you soon come I call you on the phone You tell me that you soon come Peter Tosh - Soon Come The Harder They Come (musical) Salut à tous et bonne année 2010 !! Oui, bon, je sais, j'ai pris un peu de retard dans la série des articles sur la culture Reggae, mais bon c'est finalement la bonne occasion d'illustrer un concept fondamental de la culture jamaïquaine: [...]
Ma moustache... Track List: Rosa Parks | Outkast Getaway | The Salsoul Orchestra Under the Sun | Kidda Jealous Of Roses | Bibio I'll Be Around | Otis Gayle Tell Me, What Will It Be? (Take 2) | Javelin Terra Forming | Sweet Zombie Jesus Rooks | Shearwater What Else? [...]
Trojan Records was founded in 1967 by Jamaican-English producer Lee Gopthal as something of a sister label to Chris Blackwell's Island Records. It became one of the best-known and successful reggae labels, but it also bought out several independent Jamaican labels and ended up with a pretty good ska and rock-steady back catalog. In 1972, it went through these archives and put out a fantastic (if somewhat inaccurately-named) compilation, The Trojan Story . Although the liner notes were somewhat sparse and the sound rough, you couldn't want a better overview [...]
The Tennors: Weather Report [early '70s?] Pressure And Slide [1967] This goes out to "andy", who in response to last Thursday's Tennors post demanded "more like this!!!" Weather Report is adapted from Simon & Garfunkel's The Only Living Boy In New York. Lead vocal by Ronnie Davis.
The Tennors: Ride Yu Donkey
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