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According to CNET News.com : "The inventor of the "Electric Slide," an iconic dance created in 1976, is fighting back against what he believes are copyright violations and, more importantly, examples of bad dancing. "Said creator, Richard Silver, feels that he should be compensated each time the dance is performed, and that, in most cases, it is done improperly. Folks, don't get caught on the wro
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Does anybody else remember this big hit for Marcia Griffths?It's not exactly Reggae at all it's 1980's Dance/Pop music. The reason that I associated it with Reggae is that Marcia Griffiths sang with Rita Marley as one the three girls accompanying the legendary Bob Marley and the Wailers.Marcia Griffiths will also be remembered for her hit record "Young, Gifted and Black".I don't know why this s...
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A few days ago, while commenting on another post, I was reminded of a rather sweeping theory that a friend and I came up with a bunch of years ago: Any pop song is improved by being covered by a Jamaican artiste. If the song isn’t clearly superior to the original, at a minimum it’s just as good in a different way.Over the years, I’ve discovered a few – but only a few – exceptions to this
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I may have posted this before, so forgive me if this is the case. This is one of those go-to tracks - suits (or changes) any mood to which is applied. First it was performed by the Scottish folksinger (and father of Kirsty) Ewan MacColl, then made famous a couple of decades later by Roberta Flack - quickly passing into that pantheon of songs you've heard so many bleeding times you would gladl...
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As it seems that you "out there", or some of you at least, can actually play the tunes I post (although I cannot), here is the great Marcia Griffiths, in 1998 in the Dancehall era, produced by Philip "Fatis" Burrell for his Xterminator imprint, covering a Bob Marley tune originally released on the Wail'n'Soul'm label in 1968. Those of you who want to hear the original will find it on here under...
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Annieander's ear-opening post earlier today, featuring Cake's cover version of "Guitar Man," got me thinking about songs that seemed lame beyond belief when they first came out, but were somehow rescued by a remaker. Marcis Griffiths pretty much made a career out of cutting improved reggae versions of mediocre songs. (Even so, I can't bring myself to toss up her version of Neil Diamond's "Play...
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was written by Bob Andy, and remains a reggae classic, recorded by numerous singers over the years. This is the original track, but with a rather nice keyboard overdub added in the early 1980s
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