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Tom the Great Sebastian was an early Jamaican sound system started by Tom Wong in 1950, [1] named for a trapeze performer [2] in Barnum and Bailey's circus. [3] The group has been called "the all-time giant of sound systems" [1] and helped launch several notable artists.
The Nashville sound was pioneered by staff at RCA Victor, Columbia Records and Decca Records in Nashville, Tennessee.RCA Victor manager, producer and musician Chet Atkins, and producers Steve Sholes, Owen Bradley and Bob Ferguson, and recording engineer Bill Porter invented the form by replacing elements of the popular honky tonk style (fiddles, steel guitar, nasal lead vocals) with "smooth ...
The sound system remained successful when the conservative, BBC-modeled Jamaican establishment radio refused to play the people's music, while DJs could play whatever they wanted and favored local sounds such as reggae. [3] The sound systems were big business, and represented one of the few sure ways to make money in the unstable economy of the ...
The honky-tonk style of country music remained heavily popular during the decade, and the late 1950s gave rise to the Nashville sound. [6] Blues music was highly influential to popular music in the 1950s, having directly influenced rock & roll, and many blues and rhythm & blues artists found commercial success throughout the 1950s, such as Ray ...
In the early days of sound clashes, in Jamaican dancehall culture, sound systems would bring their own sound equipment—heavy bass sounds (that can be heard miles away) are especially important. Sound clashes typically play Jamaican music from 1950 up to present recorded singles, and often utilize exclusive dubplates. [5]
Clement Seymour "Coxsone" Dodd CD (26 January 1932 – 4 May 2004) was a Jamaican record producer who was influential in the development of ska and reggae in the 1950s, 1960s and beyond. He was nicknamed "Coxsone" at school due to his talent as a cricketer (his friends compared him to Alec Coxon , a member of the 1940s Yorkshire County Cricket ...
Doris Albertha Darlington (died 25 June 1998) was a Jamaican Maroon who owned a food shop and later a liquor store in Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1950s and 1960s.This site provided the initial space for her son Coxsone Dodd to begin playing music for customers, a practice that eventually led to his founding Studio One and becoming one of the island's key musical forces.
Cooper was born c. 1929 [1] in Kingston, Jamaica, [2] and began working on sound systems in the 1950s, when the music played was largely American R&B.His stage name of Count Matchuki derived from his habit of chewing matchsticks. [3]