Maxi Priest ~ Shaggy ~ Chaka Demus & Pliers ~Jimmy Cliff
Twenty Four: Maxi Priest ~ Wild World, 1988. @therealmaxipriest Cat Stevens Wrote It. Jimmy Cliff Sang It. Maxi Got To No.1 In The US Billboard Charts (One of Only Two Reggae Songs To Reach That Position).
Twenty Five: Shaggy ~ Oh Carolina, @direalshaggy The BBC Reports That He Takes His Name Form The Scooby-Doo Character. Like Shabba Ranks He Is Also A Dancehall King. Now Most Famous For His Extra-Curricula Relationship Activites Song “It Wasn’t Me.” As Testimony To The Previously Mentioned Reggae And Punk Revolutionary Relationship Shaggy Recently Made An Album With Sting (Former Lead Singer of The Police).
Twenty Six: Chaka Demus & Pliers ~ Twist And shout, 1993. On Jools Holland Hootenanny. (Featurin’ Sly & Robbie In The Rhythm Section…And JACK RADICS). Independant Artists In Their Own Right, The Decided To Form A Duo In 1991. They Were The First Jamaican Collabortion To Achieve 3 Consecutive Top 5 Hits In The UK.
She Don’t Let Nobody (But Me) ~ 1993, Reached No.3 (From Their Album Tease Me)
Tease Me ~ July 1993, Reached No.3 (From Their Album of The Same Name ~ Tease Me).
Twist & Shout ~ New Years’s Eve, 1993. Reached No.1 January 1994. The Duo Made Their First Ever UK Appearance On Jools Holland’s First Ever New Year’s Eve Show Hootenanny. Written By Phil Medley & Bert Russell In 1961 It Has Been Covered By Many Artists Includin’ Chaka Damus & Pliers, The Isley Brothers ~ And ~ The Beatles. (Also From Their Album Tease Me)
[Murder She Wrote ~ Released 1992 (US)/1993 (International); Reached No. 27 Early 1994. Inspired By The American TV Detective Show Featuring A Glamourous Senior Female Author Who Does A Bit of Sluething And By A Faux Claim of Pregnancy ~ Where After 6~9~10 Months There Was No Baby. Taken From Their Album ‘Murder She Wrote’ It Has Become A Reggae Cult Classic] @chakademusandpliers
Twenty Seven: Jimmy Cliff ~ Many Rivers To Cross, 2008. @jimmycliff Performin’ With The BBC’s Legendary Music Show Host Jools Holland On The Piano. With Paul Weller of The Jam (And Virtually The Whole Studio of Musicians Admiringly Lookin On). The Depth of Soul, Quality And Emotion In This Performance Could Move A Person To Tears. In 1972 Cliff Famously Starred In The Film The Harder They Come About The Life of A Jamaican Musician. In 2003 (Some Thirty One Years Later) He Was Awarded The Order of Merit By The Jamaican Government In Recognition & In Honour of His Contribution To The Arts & Jamaican Culture.
Bob Marley Was Also Blessed With The Honour In 1981 (And Marley’s Exodus Album of 1977 Was Named The Best Album of The Century By Time Magazine In 1999, As The World Faced The Turn of The Century).
To Coincide With Jamaican Independence This Month (August 6th) Jimmy Cliff Has A New Album Out (At The Age of 78). Called Refugees.
It Includes Tracks Featuring His Daughter Lilty Cliff, Wycliff Jean, And Trumpeter & Reggae Artist Dwight Richards. Richards Features On The Track We Want Justice And Says We The People, We Want Justice, And We Deserve Justice @/dwighttrumpetrichards
Wycliff Jean Presented Jimmy Cliff With His Honour When He Was Entered Into The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame In 2010. In An Interview With Reggaeville.com Wycliff Reveals That The Fugees Actually Stood For Refugees of Which He Was One Himself. He Features On The New Tracks Refugges On Cliff’s New Album. It Includes A Reggae Version & A Dance Version Too. wyclef.wun.io/bio
Jimmy Cliff Has Always Been Concerned About The People As A Humanitarian. And His New Album Refugees Out This Month August 2022 Reflects That Deeply. It Includes The Very Powerful Tracks Racism (With His Daughter Lilty), Security, Bridges & Happy Day @jimmycliff
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