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Marvin Gaye’s Passport Found in 50 cent Record

February 20, 2014 by Collectors Korner Now
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  Marvin Gaye’s 1964 passport found in record bought for 50 cents by Kurt Schlosser, TODAY | February 5, 2014 at 3:18 PM “Antiques Roadshow” traveled back in time yet again in a new episode which aired Monday, and this time the PBS hit brought along a passport. A 1964 passport belonging to the late great singer Marvin Gaye was appraised on the show after a man who used to work for the Motown Museum in Detroit said it literally fell into his hands out of a record album Continue reading →

Hits from an ice cream parlour – Leslie Kong’s Beverly’s plays foundation music role

February 9, 2014 by Collectors Korner Now
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Roy Black, Writer, Jamaica Gleaner Writer In the early 1960s, Beverley’s Restaurant and Ice Cream Parlour at 135A Orange Street in downtown Kingston, a few doors above Dennis Brown’s birthplace (Big Yard), was a happy hunting ground for many aspiring Jamaican singers. As a young boy, I was privileged to witness some of the drama, having lived across the road from Beverley’s for some time with my aunt at 130 3/4 Orange Street. Music/record stores dominated the area. Prince Buster’s Record Shack was a little Continue reading →

William “Bunny Rugs” Clarke Leaves Legacy

February 4, 2014 by Collectors Korner Now
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Shereita Grizzle, Writer, Jamaica Gleaner  Committed Reggae Voice Gone – William ‘Bunny Rugs’ Clarke Leaves Stellar Music Legacy On sunday, February 2, the day that the Reggae Month 2014 calendar started in Jamaica, one of the genre’s standout voices died in Orlando, Florida, USA. A legend in his own right, William ‘Bunny Rugs’ Clarke was the lead singer of Third World Band, which is currently marking its 40th anniversary. Clarke would have celebrated his 66th birthday on Thursday, February 6, which is also the day Bob Marley would have Continue reading →

Max Romeo Pushes For Vinyl

January 29, 2014 by Collectors Korner Now
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Davina Henry, Staff Reporter, Jamaica Gleaner, Jan 29, 2014 Beginning his recording career with I Will Buy You a Rainbow in 1967, Max Romeo was making a living from music decades before computers became the primary means of recording, distributing, storing and playing back songs. The man, whose classics include War Inna Babylon and Let the Power Fall On I, and who also released a definitive collection in 2009 has seen the changes which CDs and Internet outlets such as YouTube and iTunes have brought about Continue reading →

Tarrus Riley To Release 5th Album

January 22, 2014 by Collectors Korner Now
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Tarrus Riley is set to release his fifth full-length album, Love Situation, on February 4. The 17-track collection is produced by Dean Fraser for Cannon, assisted by Shane C. Brown of Juke Boxx Productions, Mitchum ‘Khan’ Chin and Jordan McClure. The project was mixed by Brown and Romel Marshall and was mastered by Grammy Award-winning engineer, Michael Fuller. Riley, known for making thought-provoking music, has created a lane for himself, with songs like She’s Royal, Start Anew, Contagious, and Good Girl Gone Bad. Those songs Continue reading →

Junior Murvin’s Falsetto Finally Rests

December 3, 2013 by Collectors Korner Now
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  Jamaica Gleaner,   Legendary Jamaican reggae musician, Junior Murvin, best known for the single Police and Thieves, is dead. The Portland-based singer reportedly died at his home at Summers Town Road in Port Antonio early yesterday. Murvin, whose real name was Murvin Junior Smith, was born in St Jamesin 1949, but following the death of his father, relocated to Port Antonio with his mother and other siblings. Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry would later help catapult Murvin into stardom, producing Police and Thieves in 1976 with the singer’s raging falsetto driving the track. Continue reading →

Jamaica Honours Beres Hammond and others

August 12, 2013 by Collectors Korner Now
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Jamaica Honours Beres Hammond, Delroy Wilson, Charlie Chaplin and Fil Callender United Reggae,    Beres Hammond is to be awarded the Order of Jamaica this October for his achievements in music. According to the Jamaica Observer “Hammond is among seven persons who will receive Jamaica’s fourth highest honour, to be handed out by Governor General Sir Patrick Allen on October 21 at King’s House.” Golden voiced Studio 1 crooner Delroy Wilson will posthumously receive the Order of Distinction. The deejay Charlie Chaplin will be collecting the same title. But the most Continue reading →

Hague, Miller locate Jamaica in Jazz

February 23, 2013 by Collectors Korner Now
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Mel Cooke,  Writer, Jamaica Gleaner   Hague, Miller Locate Jamaica In Jazz – Perceptions Of Being An Elitist Music Form Refuted The title of last Sunday’s third lecture in the Grounation series, on in February at the Institute of Jamaica, East Street, Kingston, was a query. And if there were any doubters that the question of what jazz has to do with Jamaica would be satisfactorily answered, a literal deluge of information from Myrna Hague and Herbie Miller – who moderates the Grounation series – should have made Continue reading →