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You & Me on a Jamboree! (Free subscription) | 03/20/2008
Tesouros da Ilha........ The Royals - We Are In The Mood The Melodians - Come On Little Girl The Jamaicans - Things You Say You Love The Paragons - Tide Is High The Melodians - You Don't Need Me Phyllis Dillon - Rock Steady The Duke Reid Group - Soul Style Alton Ellis & Lloyd Williams - Can't Stand It The Techniques - Queen Majesty Vic Taylor - Heartaches The Silvertones - Midnight Hour U Roy - Midnight...
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mod-ified music (Free subscription) | 02/27/2008
Yes I know there's been a serious lack of posts here lately. But I have two new unpopular radio show episodes up for download, if you haven't already heard them. Episode 3 (12 Feb 2008) - Featuring Naomi & The Boys, The Crescendos, Rita Chao, Yang Mi-Ran & He5, Broadway Hush, Kylie Minogue, The Caravelles (see pix above), and more! Episode 4 (26 Feb 2008) - Featuring Sonny Bala & The Moonglows, Zhang...
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Doctor Mooney's 115th Dream (Free subscription) | 11/09/2007
Dear Patients: Over the next few days here at the asylum we are goin' to give some big-up stethoscope props to our top two favorite movie soundtracks. Why not top five you ask? Well, here at the asylum we are not that big on original movie soundtracks...especially the sounds of Purple Rain and Saturday Night Fever . So we figured we might as well give you at least two musical biscuits. In fact, these...
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Nice Up (Free subscription) | 11/07/2007
"This station rules the nation with version!" declared Ewart 'U Roy' Beckford, OD on his way-back-in-the-day tune (somewhere between 1969 and 1970.) That original declaration has been copied and sampled a number of times in various versions, the most popular of which was by the short-lived group Musical Youth in 'Pass the Dutchie' - their version of the Mighty Diamonds' 'Pass the Cutchie'.
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Jonzo's Rantings (Free subscription) | 10/16/2007
Very rare video of Boney M. performing Rivers Of Babylon using the original lyrics as performed by The Melodians. Due to the success of this video, Frank Farian decided to re-write the lyrics in to the ones we all know and love, and the rest is history...
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mod-ified music (Free subscription) | 06/18/2007
Don't regard The Vigilantes as just another of the many instrumental groups who churned out cover recordings filed under the "off beat cha cha" category. Think The Melodians, Polar 5, or Charlie and His Go-Go Boys. In 1968, The Vigilantes adopted a new name - The Guys, and recorded with Ismail Haron. A familiar pairing for those of you with the Steam Kodok cd compilation . The Vigilantes - Till We...
