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Clancy Eccles

Clancy Eccles (9 December 1940, Dean Pen, St. Mary, Jamaica – 30 June 2005, Spanish Town, Jamaica) was a Jamaican ska and reggae singer, songwriter, arranger, promoter, record producer and talent scout. Known mostly for his early reggae works, he brought a political dimension to this music. His house band was known as The Dynamites.

Biography

Son of a tailor and builder, Eccles spent his childhood in the countryside of the parish of Saint Mary. Eccles had an itinerant childhood due to his father's need to travel Jamaica seeking work. He used to regularly attend church, and he became influenced by spiritual singing; In his words: "One of my uncles was a spiritual revivalist, who always did this heavy type of spiritual singing, and I got to love that". Eccles's professional singing career began as a teenager, working the north-coast hotel circuit in the mid-1950s. In his late teens, he moved to Ocho Rios, where he performed at night in various shows, with artists such as The Blues Busters, Higgs & Wilson and Buster Brown. He moved to Kingston in 1959, where he started his recording career. He first recorded for Coxsone Dodd, who had organised a talent show in which Eccles took part.

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Jamaica

Jamaica (ⁱ/dʒəˈmeɪkə/) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea, comprising the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles. The island, 10,990 square kilometres (4,240 sq mi) in area, lies about 145 kilometres (90 mi) south of Cuba, and 191 kilometres (119 mi) west of Hispaniola, the island containing the nation-states of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Jamaica is the fifth-largest island country in the Caribbean.

Previously inhabited by the indigenous Arawak and Taíno peoples, the island came under Spanish rule following the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1494. Named Santiago, it remained a possession of Spain until 1655, when England (later Great Britain) conquered the island and renamed it Jamaica. Under British rule, Jamaica became a leading sugar exporter, with its plantation economy highly dependent on slaves imported from Africa, followed later by Chinese and Indian indentured labour. All slaves were fully emancipated in 1838, with independence from the United Kingdom achieved on 6 August 1962.

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Jamaica (song)

"Jamaica" is a song by Canadian rock group Bachman–Turner Overdrive that appears on the 1979 album Rock n' Roll Nights. It features Jim Clench on lead vocals. It was written by well-known songwriter Jim Vallance. It was released as a single but did not chart. The song, along with "Heartaches," was played live on American Bandstand in February 1979 to support the Rock n' Roll Nights album release.

Using different lyrics, Rick Springfield remade the song under the title "Kristina" on his 1982 album Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet.

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Jamaica (novel)

Jamaica : A Novel (2007) is a novel by Australian author Malcolm Knox. It won the Colin Roderick Award in 2007, and was shortlisted for the Fiction category of the 2008 Prime Minister's Literary Awards.

Plot summary

A group of 6 Australian friends - white, middle-aged males - combine to compete in a marathon relay swim in treacherous waters off Jamaica. But even before the race begins fractures appear in the relationships, with drug-taking, hidden secrets and personal crises coming to dominate.

Notes

Dedication: The Jamaica portrayed in these pages, and all those who exist there, are works of fiction. This book is dedicated to the facts who got out of the way of a good story.

Reviews

Patrick Ness in The Guardian found that "Alongside Tim Winton's Breath, this is the second excellent novel in as many months to examine masculinity and male friendship in Australian sport, a subject that might seem of limited intrinsic interest. But it's not the song, it's how it's sung, and if Winton is an aria, Knox is early Rolling Stone.."

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RADIO STATION	GENRE	LOCATION
Reggae141	Reggae	Jamaica
Boneyaad Radio	Reggae	Jamaica
Power 106	World,Reggae	Jamaica
NCU 91.1	Christian Contemporary	Jamaica
StylzFM	Reggae	Jamaica

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ALBUMS

The History of Blue Beat: The Birth of Ska: BB051-BB075 A & B Sides released: 2013
Island Presents Ska: 40 Original Ska Classics released: 2013
The History of Blue Beat: The Birth of Ska: BB026-BB050 A & B Sides released: 2012
Freedom Sounds released: 2012
Trojan Presents: Original Reggae - 40 Original Tighten Up Hits released: 2011
Ska Madness! 20 Reggae Classics Which Inspired the Two Tone Revolution released: 2010
Sound System International Dub LP released: 2009
Reggae Reggae released: 2009
Ska Mania released: 2009
Tighten Up Volume 2 (Deluxe Edition) released: 2009
Artist's Choice: Bob Dylan released: 2008
I'll Be Black: Compiled by The Orb released: 2007
Jamaican Rock Steady Party released: 2007
Trojan Selecta, Volume 1 released: 2006
I Am the Upsetter released: 2005
Trojan Jamaica Box Set released: 2004
The Ultimate Reggae Party Album released: 2003
Young, Gifted and Black: The Story of Trojan Records released: 2003
Trojan Reggae Brothers Box Set released: 2003
Trojan Ganja Reggae Box Set released: 2003
The Trojan Story: The Label That Defined Reggae released: 2003
Tighten Up: Trojan Reggae Classics 1968-74 released: 2002
Let's Do Rocksteady released: 2002
Trojan 'Tighten Up' Box Set released: 2002
Trojan X-Rated Box Set released: 2002
Trojan Rude Boy Box Set released: 2002
Ska Trek released: 2000
Trojan Club Reggae Box Set released: 2000
Trojan Singles Box Set released: 1999
Trojan Producer Series Box Set released: 1999
Clancy Eccles and Friends - Fatty Fatty (1967-1970) released: 1998
Trojan Ska Box Set released: 1998
Monkey Business: Killer Skinhead Reggae released: 1995
Tighten Up, Volumes 5 & 6 released: 1993
Skinhead Revolt released: 1993
Monkey Ska released: 1993
Adults Only, Volume 1 released: 1992
Ska Bonanza: The Studio One Ska Years released: 1991
Clancy Eccles Presents His Reggae Revue released: 1990
Tighten Up, Volume 5 released: 1971
Trojan Ganja Reggae released:
Bob Marley and the Story of Reggae released:
Sounds of Underground London: The Skinhead Generation released: