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This timeline shows an interactive journey through Jamaica's rich and ever-shifting musical history; encompassing it's birth, growth and myriad of characters that has made it a genre admired by the world.

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1973

image The Heptones’ big hit "Book of Rules" was based on an American poem called "A Bag of Tools" by R.L.Sharpe in 1973

1972

image Ernie Smith's 1972 hit "Pitta Patta"produced by Richard Khouri at Federal which based Lee "Scratch" Perry's based his "Musical Transplant" rhythm, was voted the best song of the year in Swing magazine.

1972

image In 1972, Ernie Smith won the World Popular Song Festival also called the Yamaha Music Festival in Japan with "Life Is Just For Living", a song originally written for a Red Stripe Beer commercial.

1972

image Jimmy Cliff stars in 'The Harder They Come' (1972). one of the first truly successful films to come out of Jamaica.

1972

image 1972 ad for Dennis Brown's "Silhouettes" record, available at Derrick's 1Stop Record Village owned by Derrick Harriott
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