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Many Rivers To Cross
"Many Rivers to Cross" is a song written and recorded in 1969 by Jimmy Cliff. It has since been recorded by many musicians, most successfully by UB40, Cher and Annie Lennox and it was sung in the Caribbean by Alison Hinds and Tessanne Chin. Background Cliff was aged 25 when he wrote and recorded the song in 1969. He has said he wrote the song due to the trouble he was having making it as a musical artist after moving to the United Kingdom. He commented, "When I came to the UK, I was still in my teens. I came full of vigor: I'm going to make it, I’m going to be up there with the Beatles and the Stones. And it wasn’t really going like that, I was touring clubs, not breaking through. I was struggling, with work, life, my identity, I couldn't find my place; frustration fueled the song." Regarding the line, "Wandering I am lost, as I travel along the White Cliffs of Dover," Cliff stated, "...that came from the number of times I crossed the channel to the continent. Most of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Cliff
James Chambers, Jamaican Order of Merit, OM (born 30 July 1944), known professionally as Jimmy Cliff, is a Jamaican ska, rocksteady, reggae and soul musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer, and actor. He is the only living reggae musician to hold the Jamaican Order of Merit, Order of Merit, the highest honour that can be granted by the Jamaican government for achievements in the arts and sciences. Cliff is best known among mainstream audiences for songs such as "Many Rivers to Cross", "You Can Get It If You Really Want", "The Harder They Come (song), The Harder They Come", "Reggae Night", and "Hakuna Matata (song), Hakuna Matata", and his cover version, covers of Cat Stevens's "Wild World (song), Wild World" and Johnny Nash's "I Can See Clearly Now" from the film ''Cool Runnings''. He starred in the film ''The Harder They Come'', which helped popularize reggae around the world, and ''Club Paradise''. Cliff was one of five performers inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Kong
Leslie Kong (20 December 1933 – 9 August 1971) was a Jamaican reggae producer. Early life Kong was born into a Chinese-Jamaican family. He had a "relatively comfortable upbringing" and attended St. George's College in Kingston. Career Leslie and his two older brothers Cecil and Lloyd ran a restaurant, ice cream parlour and record shop called Beverley's in Orange Street, Kingston. In 1961, he encountered a young Jimmy Cliff outside of his shop singing a song he had written called "Dearest Beverley", in the hopes that the mention of the establishment would convince Kong to record him.Alleyne, Mike (2012) ''The Encyclopedia of Reggae'', Sterling, , p. 146 This encounter led Kong to launch his own record label, Beverley's, and to record Cliff's song, launching Cliff's career in the process. Cliff took on an A&R role for the label, and brought Bob Marley to Kong's attention. In 1962, Kong recorded Marley's first single: "One Cup of Coffee" and " Judge Not", and Jimmy Cli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cherry Oh Baby
"Cherry Oh Baby" is a song written and originally recorded by Jamaican singer Eric Donaldson in 1971. Released on Dynamic Sounds (a subsidiary of Trojan Records), it became the label's biggest seller, with the song winning the 1971 Jamaica Song Festival. The recording was produced by Bunny Lee and Tommy Cowan and featured backing by Inner Circle. The song was covered by the Rolling Stones for their 1976 album ''Black and Blue''. However, "Cherry Oh Baby" has become better known after it was covered by UB40 in 1983. UB40 version Released in February 1984, "Cherry Oh Baby" was the fourth and final single from UB40's fourth album ''Labour of Love ''Labour of Love'' is the fourth studio album by British reggae band UB40, and their first album of cover versions. Released in the UK on 12 September 1983, the album is best known for containing the song "Red Red Wine", a worldwide number-one ...''. It peaked at number twelve on the UK Singles Chart. Track listing 7": DEP Int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Please Don't Make Me Cry
"Please Don't Make Me Cry" is a song written and originally recorded by Winston Groovy in 1970. It was first released on Torpedo Records and went on to become the label's most notable release. The song was re-recorded by Groovy in 1974 for Trojan Records and produced by Sidney Crooks. It was released on the Trojan subsidiary label Explosion in March 1974 which helped the song gain more recognition. UB40 version The most well-known recorded version of the song is by reggae group UB40, and was the follow-up single to their chart-topping cover of Neil Diamond's "Red Red Wine". Both singles were taken from the group's 1983 album ''Labour of Love''. The single peaked at number 10 on the singles chart in the UK, becoming their second consecutive Top 10 hit (sixth overall). It also appeared on the group's greatest hits album '' The Very Best of UB40'' in 2000. Music video A music video was also filmed for "Please Don't Make Me Cry". It was directed by Bernard Rose and UB40's B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pablo Falconer
Ray "Pablo" Falconer (195515 November 1987) was an English reggae producer from Birmingham, England, active in the 1970s and 1980s. Brother to Earl Falconer from UB40, Falconer produced many singles and albums for that band. Falconer died in a car crash in Birmingham in 1987. Earl Falconer, who was driving the car where his brother died, was sentenced at the time to six months' imprisonment for drunk driving, in June 1988. Influence on UB40 In a 2013 interview for ''A Taste Of Dawn'' magazine UB40's founding member Jimmy Brown described the impact of Pablo Falconer's life and work on the band's music during their early years (and onwards): 10-4-2013, ''ATOD'' Discography (partial) *UB40 - "[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DEP International
Dep International was a British record label founded in 1980 in music, 1980 by members of British group UB40. It specialised in reggae and dub music. The label went into administration (law), administration in October 2006 and into liquidation, insolvent liquidation in April 2008. It was based in DEP International Studios in Digbeth, Birmingham. History Dep International was formed in 1980 in music, 1980 by members of UB40 to keep control over their record output and to release tracks by other artists. A worldwide distribution deal was struck with Virgin Records in 1982. It was the first label to release a Dub music, dub album; Present Arms in Dub, which appeared in the British pop charts. They also had the first commercial application of a British method of mass-producing holograms with the limited edition version of UB44 having a hologram covering the record sleeve. Although the label was wound-up in 2007, in 2011 five founder members of the group and directors of the label, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reggae Fusion
Reggae fusion is a Music_genre#Subtypes, fusion genre of reggae that mixes reggae and/or dancehall with other genres, such as pop music, pop, rock music, rock, hip hop music, hip-hop/rap, Contemporary R&B, R&B, jazz, funk, soul music, soul, disco, electronic music, electronic, and Latin music, amongst others. Origin Artists have been mixing reggae with other genres from as early as the early 1970s, but initially they were described using terms that joined the various genres they performed (e.g. "reggae funk", "reggae pop", "reggae-disco"). It was not until the late 1990s that the term "reggae fusion" was coined. The subgenre predominantly evolved from late 1980s and early 1990s dancehall music which instrumentals or "riddims" contained elements from the R&B and hip hop genres. Due to this, some consider dancehall artists such as Mad Cobra, Shabba Ranks, Super Cat, Buju Banton and Tony Rebel as pioneers of reggae fusion. For some of these artists, among them Buju Banton, reggae fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Record Mirror
''Record Mirror'' was a British weekly music newspaper published between 1954 and 1991, aimed at pop fans and record collectors. Launched two years after ''New Musical Express'', it never attained the circulation of its rival. The first UK Albums Chart, UK album chart was published in ''Record Mirror'' in 1956, and during the 1980s it was the only consumer music paper to carry the official UK Singles Chart, UK singles and UK albums charts used by the BBC for BBC Radio 1, Radio 1 and ''Top of the Pops'', as well as the USA's ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' charts. The title ceased to be a stand-alone publication in April 1991 when UBM plc, United Newspapers closed or sold most of their consumer magazines, including ''Record Mirror'' and its sister music magazine ''Sounds (magazine), Sounds'', to concentrate on trade papers like ''Music Week''. In 2010, Giovanni Di Stefano (fraudster), Giovanni di Stefano bought the name ''Record Mirror'' and relaunched it as an online music go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Food For Thought (song)
"Food for Thought" is a song by British reggae band UB40, released as their debut single in February 1980 from their album ''Signing Off''. Released as a double A-side with "King (UB40 song), King", it peaked at number four on the UK Singles Chart. Composition and recording The inspiration for "Food for Thought" is said to have come from the Cambodian genocide, genocide in Cambodia, then known as Kampuchea, undertaken by members of the ruling Communist Party of Kampuchea, Communist Party, known as the Khmer Rouge, whose totalitarian government saw between 1.5 and 3 million people killed between 1975 and 1979. The song's lyrics were written by Robin Campbell with help from his father, Folk music, folksinger Ian Campbell (folk musician), Ian Campbell, and relate to "the hypocrisy of Christmas, the fact that there are starving people in Africa and here we are all sat around eating our Christmas dinner and praising the Lord". After having written the lyrics, Campbell brought them t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labour Of Love
''Labour of Love'' is the fourth studio album by British reggae band UB40, and their first album of cover versions. Released in the UK on 12 September 1983, the album is best known for containing the song "Red Red Wine", a worldwide number-one single, but it also includes three further UK top 20 hits, "Please Don't Make Me Cry", "Many Rivers to Cross" and "Cherry Oh Baby". The album reached number one in the UK, New Zealand and the Netherlands and the top five in Canada, but only reached number 39 in the US on its original release, before re-entering the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200 in 1988 and peaking at number 14 as a result of "Red Red Wine"'s delayed success in the US. Following the record's success, UB40 have since released three further albums of cover versions under the ''Labour of Love'' title. Background and recording The album consists of cover versions of ten of the group's favourite songs by reggae artists from the period 1969 to 1972. Guitarist Robin Campbell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chitral Somapala
Chandana Chitral Somapala (born 4 November 1966: ), aka Chity Somapala, is a Sri Lankan hard rock and heavy metal vocalist and a music director. He is known for his work with European power metal bands Firewind, Power Quest, Avalon, Faro, Red Circuit, and Civilization One. Somapala gained popularity in his home country due to his Sinhala track "Nadee Ganga" which was released in 1998. Personal life Chandana Chitral Somapala was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on 4 November 1966. His parents, P. L. A. Somapala and Chithra née Perera, were musicians, music directors and producers. His parents' song, "Dambulu Gale", was recreated by Somapala and received mixed feedback by critics. He has three brothers: Prasanna, Rohan, Nalin, and one sister, Piumi. Somapala was educated at Isipathana College (formally Greenlands College), a national school for boys, located in Colombo. While there, he played cricket, football (soccer), and hockey. Musical career Somapala joined the Sri Lankan al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
500 Greatest Songs Of All Time
"The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" is a recurring song ranking compiled by the American magazine ''Rolling Stone''. It is based on weighted votes from selected musicians, critics, and industry figures. The first list was published in December 2004 in a special issue of the magazine, issue number 963, a year after the magazine published its list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". In 2010, ''Rolling Stone'' published a revised edition, drawing on the original and a later survey of songs released up until the early 2000s. Another updated edition of the list was published in 2021, with more than half the entries not having appeared on either of the two previous editions; it was based on a new survey and did not factor in the surveys conducted for the previous lists. The 2021 list was based on a poll of more than 250 artists, musicians, producers, critics, journalists, and industry figures. They each sent in a ranked list of their top 50 songs, and ''Rolling Stone'' tabulated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
