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Dipping a toe into Cody B territory, the Wingate label was, along with Ric-Tic, a subsidiary of Golden World Records, the label formed by Ed Wingate and boxer's widow Joanne Bratton in Detroit in 1962, and considered in its early years a rival to Motown. Indeed, most of the musicians playing on Golden World Sessions were Motown sidemen moonlighting; for a fuller history of the label and its sta...
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but finally, after a vast amount of burning the midnight oil, the Inquiry started today, and will run into next year - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8359358.stmDuring the preparation, I've had the odd moment where my mind was not working to its usual sharpness. First up tonight is a 1976 recording by Jimmy London, a classy if somewhat "uptown" Jamaican singer rather negle...
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Few now remember poet Robert Lee Sharpe, the writer, back in the period just after World War Two of "A Bag Of Tools", first published as a piece of uplifting Christian verse in 1948. It must, however, have been used as a school text in Jamaica, where it became arguably the finest recording ever by the Heptones:The track was recorded at Harry J's Studios, whose dubbing technology was rudimentary...
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