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Reco

Reco (Jamaican reggae horn player) is a Jamaican musician associated with Jamaica.

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Stories about Reco from the JamaicansMusic archive, oldest first · 1964–1976

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  1. 1964

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    ‘Simmer Down’: Five Trench Town Teenagers Walk Into Studio One and Leave as The Wailers

    Coached by Joe Higgs under a mango tree on Second Street, Bob Marley, Bunny Livingston, Peter Tosh, Junior Braithwaite and Beverley Kelso record ‘Simmer Down’ for Coxsone Dodd with the Skatalites behind them. By February 1964 it is No. 1 in Jamaica — a warning to the rude boys, sung by a boy from the government yard.

  2. 1968

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    ‘Do the Reggay’: Toots Hibbert Gives the Music Its Name, 1968

    After ‘54-46 That’s My Number’ puts the Maytals in Kingston’s top rank, Toots Hibbert records a dance-craze single whose title compresses ‘streggae’ into ‘reggay’ — and, in his telling, coins the word that will name an entire genre.

  3. 1969

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    Child Prodigy: Dennis Brown’s ‘No Man Is an Island’ Breaks Through, 1969

    At eleven, Dennis Brown scores his first hit with a cover of the Van Dykes’ ‘No Man Is an Island.’ Recorded at Studio One when he is twelve or thirteen, the song and its parent album announce a voice Jamaica will never tire of hearing.

  4. 1972

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    The Crown Prince of Reggae: Bob Marley’s Favourite Singer and a Title That Stuck

    Bob Marley calls Dennis Brown the best reggae singer in the world and dubs him the Crown Prince. The nickname follows Brown from his teenage years at Studio One through three decades of recording — and outlives him.

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    ‘Funky Kingston’: Chris Blackwell Signs Toots and the Maytals to Island and Takes Reggae to the Rock Audience, 1972

    After Leslie Kong’s death, the Maytals become Toots and the Maytals on Island Records. Funky Kingston — recorded in Jamaica and mixed in London — is the album that puts Hibbert’s voice in front of the rock crowd Rolling Stone would later rank among the 500 greatest.

  5. 1973

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    ‘Catch a Fire’: Stranded in London, The Wailers Take Chris Blackwell’s Advance, Go Home to Kingston and Make the Album That Takes Reggae to the World

    Released by Island Records on April 13, 1973 in a hand-riveted Zippo lighter sleeve, ‘Catch a Fire’ is the first reggae album marketed like a rock record. Cut on eight-track at Dynamic, Harry J’s and Randy’s, then overdubbed at Basing Street by Wayne Perkins and John ‘Rabbit’ Bundrick, it sells 14,000 copies in its first weeks — and sets Bob Marley on the road out of Trench Town.

  6. 1974

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    Tosh and Bunny Walk: The Wailers Split and Peter Tosh Goes Solo, 1974

    After Lee Perry’s ‘Catch a Fire’ sides and the Island Records deal that reshaped the group around Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer quit the Wailers in 1974. Tosh keeps the militant fire — cutting for Perry, opening his own label and preparing the solo statement that becomes ‘Legalize It.’

  7. 1976

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    ‘One Step Ahead’: Zap Pow’s New Lead Singer Beres Hammond Cuts ‘Soul Reggae’ With Willie Lindo and Spends Three and a Half Months at No. 1

    The ninth of ten children from Annotto Bay, St Mary, comes up through talent shows and a duet act with Cynthia Schloss, joins the horn-driven Zap Pow in 1975 and — asked by Aquarius Records to pick a single from his debut album — goes back into the studio and writes a new ballad instead. ‘One Step Ahead’ goes, in his words, ‘like a bolt to number one.’

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