I was eight yrs old then. we (my six brothers & sisters) used to take country bus early Saturday morning from Santa Cruz.to reach parade then run over to Carib to watch the matinee. Afterwards we'd walk over to tastee for pattie and custard, Onward to Hope gardens and coconut park. From there we'd take the constant spring bus toward Coconut grove and banana way in Red Hills spend the night go ah church Sunday then be driven back to country by our rich relatives, LOL, and tun on Kerosene lamp and watch T.V in the one room which had electricity. The rest of the house kerosene. Imagine the oldest child was fifteen and no one feared for our safety. Jamaica is much more developed now but what I do miss is the love and trust we had for each other. in spite of our problems, No place betta den yaard. I've never seen a country (I've traveled to many and lived in a few) and nowhere have I seen so many different races mixing and living together and sharing the same culture and proud to be called the same. Out of many ONE, JAMAICAN
Angie H maybe it was posted by the Belgian Company they had contracted to refurbished the JBC Building. After they left none of the Archive of Video, Audio Recordings and Films could not be found. At the time I read about it, I was wondering if these people did no hear of King Leopold of Belgium. Oh God man!!! Wooiiee!!!
I have never seen the out of many one people, but what I know is that the love and trust is gone. However I must say that this is not just Jamaica, but the world. The world as we know it is over and done. I am just preparing for that day when it is my life that I will have to give because I know that the new world order is only a few years to come.
I was 7 years old then growing up in Jamaica. I attended that school in the film. ST Francis Primary, located next door to the ST Joseph's College. I can almost see myself. My three sisters and I all went to that school. I'm overwhelmed with emotions just seeing my friends again.
this film was made by the U.S government because 1972 was a election year in jamaica, and as jamaica is on the doorstep of the U.S, the need was felt to catch the prevailing situation of ordinary life for the average folks of jamaica on film. there is a longer version to this film that has a interview with the leader of the PNP michael manley talking about socialism, something the U.S was concerned about. so this film was made with a political backdrop to it. hope that was helpful to you.
Many, many thanks to you for this wonderful video! I left Kingston, Jamaica in 1969 at the age of 12. Seeing this was simply Divine! Was that Hope Gardens at 9:25 - 9:45? If it was, my memory is not bad at all. If it wasn't, me haffi laugh 'cause everytime me si pawk inna JA, mi seh ah Hope Gardens. Lol. As a child, Hope Gardens was definitely one of my favorite places in the world. My older sisters were students at St. Monica's College (actually a primary school, I think, but definitely not a college) near Hope Gardens and so we often visited that park. Bless up!
i was 7 then. most of us never had much but you would never know. we made our own toys, gig, skate trucks from milk boxes. we played marbles, hop scotch and dandy shandy with the girls and yes! dolly house. there was a lot of neighbourly love and if you are in kingston and a person dies in mobay a kind of gloom comes over the country. but the fight for power which created this gun colture with some negative imput from outside forces effectively fucked all that and it's gettin worse
I know that the love and trust is gone. However I must say that this is not just Jamaica, but the world. The world as we know it is over and done. I am just preparing for that day when it is my life that I will have to give because I know that the new world order is only a few years to come
I am 62 years old was born in east rural st.andrew Jamaica. I immigrated to Kingston February of 1973 exactly I year from when this film was made . Oh my God what great memories,I am so happy to see this.
I think we’re trying to find ourselves. The oppressor have taken so much from us, our language, religion and tried to make us more like them: individualistic, envious, hateful, etc. but we will remember ourselves.
It's a great feeling, you left 1973 , you certainly miss out a lot. I left 19 95, I missed nothing. Actually I'm a XJOS Worker and I coached st.francis all Age school, Cricket,Tracks and football.sitting in my back yard in USA I'm thrilled
@@geraldsmalling6724 My father used to Drive JOS buses . His name is George Campbell . There's still a few of the L & G buses still around . L 99 is still by my Aunts house till this day. It's used as a house . There was an F bus a.k.a Patty Pan by my mother's home & they recently scrapped it .
I leave Jamaica November 1970 as a child....it's very nice to look back... after 42 year's i when back and cannot stop going even though it has changed a lot with the violence.....i still going every year.... still LOVE 💚🖤💛 MY JAMAICA 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🏝️🏝️💯💯💯💚🖤💛
wow. we all thinking same thing. Im only 27 right now but I could see the beauty from back then. I think all the negative started after the 1980 election. CIA introduce a lot of guns into Jamaica
@@okaydudejm or maybe manley introduced socialism and pissed off america by making friends with cuba...and also told the middle class.to catch "five flights a day to.miami".
Those was the most memorable years in Jamaica, although i was not born yet and i was not in Kingston, but those were SOME of the best years, thanks for the video.
@Brother Jake's Reconnaissance it wasn't Mr Manley's fault it was Seaga's manipulations and lies that caused the country to descend into chaos he caused the guns to be imported so that he could cause confusion and fear in the people and told lies to the US government about the country, that it was becoming communist and turned the people against Mr Manley . Most of what Mr Manley tried to do his (Mr Seaga) fellow party members who proceeds him have been trying to do those policies of Mr Manley and even President Jimmy Carter said he was wrong to have followed the lies told to him about Manley and Jamaica what was done by Edward George Philip Seaga was cruel and wicked he set Jamaica backwards and I afraid that Jamaica WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO SEE IT'S FULL POTENTIAL BECAUSE OF THE WASTED YEARS UNDER EDWARD GEORGE PHILIP SEAGA.
This music is a Healing of the nations, I keep coming back to it. Today's music I put on ear muffs to block it out. The computer said," Something went wrong!! " Man, I wish they would get it together again for the good of Jamaica. The music is the teacher, to many bad lessons and bogus teachers / musicians. Wake and smell the Blue mountain coffee, we are the listeners. There's classic rock n roll as an alternative.
First bit of music is Tyrone Downie - Organ D on the Slaving rhythm. Second tune is Why Oh Why by Ernest Wilson on Studio 1 or rather the version side. Third piece sounds like a heavy dub cut to Lloyd Parks' "Ordinary Man" cut at Randy's by ET. Might be known as Extraordinary Version. Fourth piece is a dub cut to Heavenless on Studio 1, credited to Don Drummond but actually by Don Drummond Junior aka Vin Gordon.
lovely travel into history. The time when Jamaica only had one TV channel broadcasting in black and white - Radio was only RJR and JBC. Power outs would last for days, class teacher were still allowed to give you a lickin`for not doing your homework, American cars all over di place, 10 Dollars was alot of money, Palisadoes Airport in Kingston was the islands international hub, cherry milk. egg nog and "Cisco Pop" in the fridge - Happy Days!!!!
@@douglasbrown7612 back dem time here Jolly buses a run things a town The L bus the G bus the A bus longside the F bus a k.a patty pan a straight ghetto bus dem de jones town Denham & Jungle this brings back soooo many childhood memories. The bus coming up is the road is the 19 bus going towards trench town this person driving from cross road through jungle going down Collie Smith Drive to Spanish Town Road.
I wish I could give this video and soundtrack a LIKE 👍🏿 Everytime I watch this video. I have re-watched this video at least 30+ times since coming across it. ❤️💯
as a 14 year old jamaican, i feel like i used to live in jamaica in my past life. seeing this just seems so familiar to me, i dont know how to explain it.
Its because we are just continuing living our culture and life...similarly the same way in a different times. That was thier time, now it is yours. 50 years again from now, its going to be the same. We are just passing through life, one generation at a time. Enjoy and live it, like them we soon too will pass away....as they will too, while another generation comes. Because it never ends.
+PLEASANTGIFFT you're on every Jamaican video are you even Jamaican? I've never experienced racism a day in my life and I think that's better than what some blacks in America have to put up with, I've been to Canada never experienced racism there either but blacks go through discrimination in America, sometimes I wonder why people decide to leave Jamaica to go to America forever but I guess there are more opportunities, I'm a UWI student now and I hope that after all this hard work I can actually find a job in Jamaica and start my own family, etc. 😒
Beautiful era then was for most places in the Caribbean. Life was not violent nor too stressful then. People were respectful to each other ,caring and shared with each other. Folks use to look after any child who might be out looking to do wrong and correct them. Life was more pure and honest then. Love and unity gave people hope then when you didn’t have much. I sometimes wish that life didn’t moved on so fast so we could enjoy those simpler times. Caribbean Living is the BEST, but modern day living has tainted the way we live now.
Atleast me can say me ketch the likkle last tail ender years of it, being born in 1994 but jahkno if me cudda just get one wish from God, it would be to go back and re-live my life in those years, such peace, everybody seems healthy and happy. I'm pretty sure that decency, love and respect was at an all time high, and I doubt people cared too much about being rich and living in all the vanity that the youths a chase today. anyone who was a young child or teenager or adult during those years in Jamaica is abundantly blessed by God and I would switch places with you anyday
+El Jamaiquino Music So true. Prior to 1972 It was a wonderful time to live in Jamaica. Murder was rare news & tourist walked & drove alone throughout the island. People respected the elders, the dollar was basically equal to the U.S. dollar & overall quality of life was similar to the Bahamas & Barbados today & everyone had an opportunity to make it if they tried, until... Then everything went down hill & many sought a better quality of life elsewhere. Its a shame how one person's philosophy can change the course of a country.
El Jamaiquino Music Most definitely, that B.S. he called democratic-socialism, followed by his arrogant statement to the Business Community that there were: "five flights a day to Miami" which drove most of the Brainpower & Business Professionals out of Jamaica; something he stated he regretted doing & would've done things differently, but it was too late. Jamaica has been a woeful disaster since.
Love this video,overwhelmed with memories.our nation went on the wrong path since the 1972 election,we took sides in international cold war politics big mistake,1972 election lots of fighting between pnp and jlp supporters,mostly stone throwing a minor amount of gun play.1976 election same thing but worst.1980 near damn civil war,country flooded with guns by outside forces.if we had not made certain political mistakes Jamaica would be so much better today.miss it so much,love it much beautiful Jamaica.
Yes, it was not just the CIA but MI6 as well. They did not want to see JA prosper and the then leaders and the ones today have sold out the people for 30 pieces of silver
Back in these days , there were no 1/4 millions , Tatas ,Shakas , . Strictly Jolly Bus we used to take . The L bus , G bus , A bus which was the short version of the G bus without the billboard without the lighted billboard over the windows ,& the F bus nicknamed Patty Pan . Such great kids memories riding Jolly buses especially X 77 .
que paseo ver este video !!!!! cheverisimo !!!!!!!!! pa estos tiempos nuestro querido bob marley estaba poniendo en alta una de las islas mas bellas del mundo JAMAICA!!!!!!!!!
We comparing our beautiful nation to that of america! And i say america singularly because most people do and it is a fact. We gained independence within the last century, during this time honedtly believe we made tremendous strides. There are greater opportunities today than pre independence. Yes we do have a crime problem, there is no going around that. But we compare with america and they have issues of crime too! Every nation has had to deal with issues but the difference is americans remain committed to their ideals in making america the place everyone wants to go to. Jamaica can also be that, the evidence of this is in the striving of everyone productive contribution of jamaicans in the diaspora! Jamaica is great because its people are great.
Wowza! We lived in Kingston 1967-69 (Jack's Hill area) when I was kid. My parents were with the foreign service. Have some great memories and this definitely brings them to life. Thanks for posting!
#2020 who is watching ? Nice video .. from #WestAfrica #Ghana 🇬🇭 love seeing all those buildings back then As the same old buildings in Ghana .. big respect. to all the enslaved africans who laid the Africa living then...
Actually, the song name is Jimmy as a job card, produced by Rupie Edwards. The Orgon D track, by Tyrone, is in the same Slavin riddim, great riddim btw, many good versions
Mr Vassell thanks, nice upload , I recognized Trench Town and Jones Town in Kingston in this Video i used to walk those streets as a youth, never had any problems it was always just love .
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work the good old days when Jamaica was still nice 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
I was 4 years old and can remember it like it was yesterday i was living on rodney street and the next year 1973 we moved into jungle that was the best time of my life play marble.fly kite and ride skate big up joe brown. Jag glen. and man like 39 du bal dem man deh a original junglis Tony Welch sperline those were the good old days and man like tall dread big up all junglis
Dem time here brigs back priceless kids memories Jolly bus was the Main mode of transportation . The L bus ,G bus ,A bus & the famous F bus a.k.a Patty Pan a str8 up Original garrison bus Dem . Great memories.
I was in 4th form at SAHS getting ready for GCE “O” Level exam….enjoyed the freedom n general lack of fear….we use fi fraid a duppy more dan man…growing up in WR St Andrew was nice….use fi sleep wid di windows open..walk tru mi our lands n nyam everyting in sight…..go pon moonlight walks wid friends n use a glassjar full a peeny walley fi di light…walk go up Border n climb dung the ‘cliff’ so drop out pon di Junction infront of Castleton Gardens..den wen going home, hitchhike wid no fear to Temple Hall n den hitchhike or walk go home to LT…..every Easter, Independence n Boxing Day, we use fi have Fairn den dance at night..we kids couldn’t stay fi di dance but soundsystem set up early n we cou;d enjoy di music even in di daytime we were dere…a deh so my love of the music industry started…u n u frenz meet Satiday eena di village square since dat was market day…go GUNBOAT n BUCCANEER BEACH more time pon Sunday….stay wid frenz a town n sneak out go Red Gyal Ring go party to MERRITONES…oh lawd….BUTTT we must never figet dat dem years were a fight fi get we own fledgling music pon we own local radio station…yep….big up to MIKEY DREAD who led di way….n wat stands out sooooo much more to me, we kids respected ourselves, ourparents, our village, our teachers, police in our village…lived by the motto, ‘NO MEK U FAMBILY NAME CALL UP EENA COURTHOUSE….lastly, this poem we learned in Primary School to recite by heart still remains firmly in mi mind…. Nature -H. D. Carberry We have neither summer nor winter neither autumn nor spring. We have instead the days when the gold sun shines on the lush green canefields - magnificently. The days when the rain beats like bullets on the roofs and there is no sound but the swish of water in the gullies and trees struggling in the high Jamaica winds. Also there are the days when leaves fade from off guango trees and the reaped canefields lie bare and fallow to the sun. But best of all, there are the days when the mango and the logwood blossom When bushes are full of the sound of bees and the scent of honey. When the tall grass sways and shivers to the slightest breath of air. When the buttercups have paved the earth with yellow stars and beauty comes suddenly, and the rains have gone.
Because everyone then had a machete or a knife and no one was more arm than is the neighbor so no need to fear anyone because they all equal. The only way crime will ever reduce in Jamaica is if everyone becomes equal again. All the states in the US that’s full of crime guns are band there. If I was the government of Jamaica every home would have the means to protect themselves.
I was born that year. Not sure which month this video was made but if it’s before July i was still in the womb🤣🤣🤣 look how de road dem did pretty. My gosh
I AM NOT FROM JA, BUT I AM CARIBBEAN, THOSE WERE THE BEST DAYS, NO MONEY LOTS OF LOVE, PEACE AND HAPPINESS IN ALL OF THE CARIBBEAN,,,,....ONELOVE.....,,,...TOGETHER WE STAND, AS ASSHOLES WE FAILED MANY GENERATIONS...............GREED,,,,,,GREED,,,,,GREED,,,,,GREED,,,,,,EDUCATION WITH NO WORK ETHIC.......NO PRESENCE,,,,ETC.....
In the early days Jamaican music 🎶 was incredible going on through the years to Bob Marley, Burning Spear, Big Youth, I Jahman Levi. Then slowly I ceased being inspired at this time. Maybe I have a Classic Soul and need music to turn me On. Anyway my brethren, what I hearing here does the trick.
JamDown was paradise from the 60’s to 70’s. Late 70’s things began to change. It took a community to grow pickney. Back in those days, you could travel from Hannah Town to Jones Town then to Rema and Jungle coming down to Denham Town and Tivoli Garden then to Matthews Lane. Everyone looking out for each other because we were one people. Nothing back then last the street dances. The police and people from the communities enjoying themselves. What happened Jamaica?
You can’t blame the younger generation. I think politics destroyed Jamaica; and lack of education. All these things lead to corruption. When I was a youngster growing up, I was scared of election. I didn’t like the excitement and it was very violent. Now living in a different country, I see how beautiful Jamaica is. The government need to take education very serious and no more corruption. Or maybe Jamaica need a fresh start.
Who remember being downtowm parade at night when the L & G buses that J.O.S. used to operated back then light up their billboards over the windows at night how pretty they were .Till this day, no other buses that went to ja looks good at night like the L&G buses.
Politics mash up Jamaica. They divided and the people back then and had them fighting tribal wars. Now the younger generation is divided and don't know why.
From 4:05 - 5:19 in the video that was Jones town and Craig town. It looks so different and everything changed but the roads are still the same that's how I know
Its nice to see how Jamaica looked like back in 1972. Btw, may I know at 8:13, which sound track is that? It's wonderful music. Thank you for sharing it here. :)
I was eight yrs old then. we (my six brothers & sisters) used to take country bus early Saturday morning from Santa Cruz.to reach parade then run over to Carib to watch the matinee. Afterwards we'd walk over to tastee for pattie and custard, Onward to Hope gardens and coconut park. From there we'd take the constant spring bus toward Coconut grove and banana way in Red Hills spend the night go ah church Sunday then be driven back to country by our rich relatives, LOL, and tun on Kerosene lamp and watch T.V in the one room which had electricity. The rest of the house kerosene. Imagine the oldest child was fifteen and no one feared for our safety. Jamaica is much more developed now but what I do miss is the love and trust we had for each other. in spite of our problems, No place betta den yaard. I've never seen a country (I've traveled to many and lived in a few) and nowhere have I seen so many different races mixing and living together and sharing the same culture and proud to be called the same. Out of many ONE, JAMAICAN
kwacou st Elizabeth is where my daddy side Sh Family is from. Sant Cruz brunt grung
I live near st Mary's church close to Washington BLVD at that time, don't know if the church is still there, those were the best of times.
That saying is dumb, Jamaica is 95% black inidgenous, aboriginal - it is our land.
Angie H maybe it was posted by the Belgian Company they had contracted to refurbished the JBC Building. After they left none of the Archive of Video, Audio Recordings and Films could not be found. At the time I read about it, I was wondering if these people did no hear of King Leopold of Belgium. Oh God man!!! Wooiiee!!!
I have never seen the out of many one people, but what I know is that the love and trust is gone. However I must say that this is not just Jamaica, but the world. The world as we know it is over and done. I am just preparing for that day when it is my life that I will have to give because I know that the new world order is only a few years to come.
I don't care what anyone thinks i love my country, soooo beautiful, good food and a verrrrry rich culture. God Blesses to all Jamaicans❤❤
do you have old reggae
And good sex Bob Marley ❤eeh eeh yummy.bob😮
@@jardelsouza7787no just new,horsey😅
@@Claudia-oo6lx Do you live in Jamaica?
I was 7 years old then growing up in Jamaica. I attended that school in the film. ST Francis Primary, located next door to the ST Joseph's College. I can almost see myself. My three sisters and I all went to that school. I'm overwhelmed with emotions just seeing my friends again.
me and my siblings attended St. Francis also 👍
this film was made by the U.S government because 1972 was a election year in jamaica, and as jamaica is on the doorstep of the U.S, the need was felt to catch the prevailing situation of ordinary life for the average folks of jamaica on film. there is a longer version to this film that has a interview with the leader of the PNP michael manley talking about socialism, something the U.S was concerned about. so this film was made with a political backdrop to it. hope that was helpful to you.
Many, many thanks to you for this wonderful video! I left Kingston, Jamaica in 1969 at the age of 12. Seeing this was simply Divine! Was that Hope Gardens at 9:25 - 9:45? If it was, my memory is not bad at all. If it wasn't, me haffi laugh 'cause everytime me si pawk inna JA, mi seh ah Hope Gardens. Lol. As a child, Hope Gardens was definitely one of my favorite places in the world. My older sisters were students at St. Monica's College (actually a primary school, I think, but definitely not a college) near Hope Gardens and so we often visited that park. Bless up!
Ian vassell, did you add the soundtrack or did the US government? I think I know the answer but just would like confirmation.
ian vassell that said election left the country in social and political ruins that even until this day we are been affected
Thank you so much
Could you give me anyone information please.
i was 7 then. most of us never had much but you would never know. we made our own toys, gig, skate trucks from milk boxes. we played marbles, hop scotch and dandy shandy with the girls and yes! dolly house. there was a lot of neighbourly love and if you are in kingston and a person dies in mobay a kind of gloom comes over the country. but the fight for power which created this gun colture with some negative imput from outside forces effectively fucked all that and it's gettin worse
You are so right never had to lock door kids would stay with labours if you had to go in town and they will be safe
True ting...
I know that the love and trust is gone. However I must say that this is not just Jamaica, but the world. The world as we know it is over and done. I am just preparing for that day when it is my life that I will have to give because I know that the new world order is only a few years to come
@@fightingbackatsocialissues9923 how right you were. You see what's goin on now..
Banks Banks me say bring back de white man innit
I am 62 years old was born in east rural st.andrew Jamaica. I immigrated to Kingston February of 1973 exactly I year from when this film was made . Oh my God what great memories,I am so happy to see this.
Love this , brings tear to my eyes, we have lost our roots
Mankind in general have lost their roots
I think we’re trying to find ourselves. The oppressor have taken so much from us, our language, religion and tried to make us more like them: individualistic, envious, hateful, etc. but we will remember ourselves.
This is the land of my birth. This is Jamaica my Jamaica..
Jamaica nice..good memories.
Me father was 2 in this
1972 is the year we left the island. I was a child. I cant wait to show this to my mom. I love this video. Thanks.
It's a great feeling, you left 1973 , you certainly miss out a lot. I left 19 95, I missed nothing.
Actually I'm a XJOS Worker and I coached st.francis all Age school, Cricket,Tracks and football.sitting in my back yard in USA I'm thrilled
The bus coming up Collie Smith Drive is the 19 bus going towards Jungle . Good old J.O.S days .
@@geraldsmalling6724 My father used to Drive JOS buses . His name is George Campbell . There's still a few of the L & G buses still around . L 99 is still by my Aunts house till this day. It's used as a house . There was an F bus a.k.a Patty Pan by my mother's home & they recently scrapped it .
Wow!!! Thank you. I left Jamaica January 1973 so seeing this is like memory lane. I am amazed and happy at the same time.
Wow, I left Jamaica 1970.
Still in foreign, but attempting to get home before they lock us in.
I am now retired as luck would have it. I left usa october 2019, been here one year now.
You couldn't pay me to live in Jamaica. They killing off the people retire from broad coming there. Hell with that place.
@@tysonbrown choose a better location
This is such a soothing video. It's like time traveling with the chillest soundtrack. Promise you'll never take this video down!
Yes 💯 love it
I say this unashameably!
I love my country!
I leave Jamaica November 1970 as a child....it's very nice to look back... after 42 year's i when back and cannot stop going even though it has changed a lot with the violence.....i still going every year.... still LOVE 💚🖤💛 MY JAMAICA 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🏝️🏝️💯💯💯💚🖤💛
What age are you now baby?
My brethren I am just listening to this soundtrack over and over, I can't get enough of it.
slaving lloyd parks
Who's watching in 2017? Sweet sweet jamaica
watching this brings a smile to my face. Jamaica the land of my birth.
Agree
This video brings back great memories, I was 19 then.I remember my 1972 VW Bug which I later owned.
wait...how the uniform skirt dem so short back then? lol
+Tina Grant i live in puert rico where u live
+Tina Grant my very reaction... lol
Nick Palmeri Jamaica
ChuckEy Endeavor Things and time has changed lol
Same thing I was saying
I lived in Jamaica from 1979 through 1981, one of my best times.
how did we wreck such a beautiful place in less than 50 years?
amazingfabs I was thinking the same
wow. we all thinking same thing. Im only 27 right now but I could see the beauty from back then.
I think all the negative started after the 1980 election. CIA introduce a lot of guns into Jamaica
Overpopulation is a big part of the problem
@@okaydudejm or maybe manley introduced socialism and pissed off america by making friends with cuba...and also told the middle class.to catch "five flights a day to.miami".
Drew Blak lol not like things have gotten any better, we’re basically selling the country to China piece by piece
Those was the most memorable years in Jamaica, although i was not born yet and i was not in Kingston, but those were SOME of the best years, thanks for the video.
@Brother Jake's Reconnaissance it wasn't Mr Manley's fault it was Seaga's manipulations and lies that caused the country to descend into chaos he caused the guns to be imported so that he could cause confusion and fear in the people and told lies to the US government about the country, that it was becoming communist and turned the people against Mr Manley . Most of what Mr Manley tried to do his (Mr Seaga) fellow party members who proceeds him have been trying to do those policies of Mr Manley and even President Jimmy Carter said he was wrong to have followed the lies told to him about Manley and Jamaica what was done by Edward George Philip Seaga was cruel and wicked he set Jamaica backwards and I afraid that Jamaica WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO SEE IT'S FULL POTENTIAL BECAUSE OF THE WASTED YEARS UNDER EDWARD GEORGE PHILIP SEAGA.
This music is a Healing of the nations, I keep coming back to it. Today's music I put on ear muffs to block it out. The computer said," Something went wrong!! " Man, I wish they would get it together again for the good of Jamaica. The music is the teacher, to many bad lessons and bogus teachers / musicians. Wake and smell the Blue mountain coffee, we are the listeners. There's classic rock n roll as an alternative.
First bit of music is Tyrone Downie - Organ D on the Slaving rhythm. Second tune is Why Oh Why by Ernest Wilson on Studio 1 or rather the version side. Third piece sounds like a heavy dub cut to Lloyd Parks' "Ordinary Man" cut at Randy's by ET. Might be known as Extraordinary Version. Fourth piece is a dub cut to Heavenless on Studio 1, credited to Don Drummond but actually by Don Drummond Junior aka Vin Gordon.
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I thought I heard David Issacs in deh ?
Thanks man for all that info Slaving by lloyd parks big tune..blessings big up...
Only if we could turn back the hands of time
Mi fi tell u. Mi miss back in the days 😭😭😭
Time longer than rope and time will catch up pon you selah
need more videos like this! i want to see more of jamaica
lovely travel into history.
The time when Jamaica only had one TV channel broadcasting in black and white - Radio was only RJR and JBC.
Power outs would last for days, class teacher were still allowed to give you a lickin`for not doing your homework, American cars all over di place, 10 Dollars was alot of money, Palisadoes Airport in Kingston was the islands international hub, cherry milk. egg nog and "Cisco Pop" in the fridge - Happy Days!!!!
Kisko.pop not cisko.me memba.
Remember the Ford Cortina.
I would have to agree with you but you forget the sweet potato pudin
Yep Kisko not cisko
@@douglasbrown7612 back dem time here Jolly buses a run things a town The L bus the G bus the A bus longside the F bus a k.a patty pan a straight ghetto bus dem de jones town Denham & Jungle this brings back soooo many childhood memories. The bus coming up is the road is the 19 bus going towards trench town this person driving from cross road through jungle going down Collie Smith Drive to Spanish Town Road.
How can be positive again and return to 1972 in mindset and vibes??? What a fabulous island back then!! ❤❤❤
My family lived in Mona Heights, Kingston from August 1971 to August 1973. This brings back a lot of memories of my youth (ages 15 & 16).
I use to take the no. 22 Jos bus on Violet Ave to go home....I was 19 then.😊
the music on this is amazing!
OG L.A yes do you know the titles of the songs?
Fi real
@@annmcdonald7713 slaving lloyd parks
1972, i was 8 year old I wish Jamaica could go back to those days it so 😢😢 sad but i still ❤❤❤love my born land sweet sweet Jamaica
real reggae rock,my lovely jamaica in many different shades
Beautiful Jamaica.
I wish I could give this video and soundtrack a LIKE 👍🏿 Everytime I watch this video.
I have re-watched this video at least 30+ times since coming across it.
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as a 14 year old jamaican, i feel like i used to live in jamaica in my past life. seeing this just seems so familiar to me, i dont know how to explain it.
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I agree
Its because we are just continuing living our culture and life...similarly the same way in a different times. That was thier time, now it is yours. 50 years again from now, its going to be the same.
We are just passing through life, one generation at a time. Enjoy and live it, like them we soon too will pass away....as they will too, while another generation comes. Because it never ends.
It's called deja vu.
So beautiful i wasn't even born yet lol..
Jamaica Did Look So Nice Back Then
What??
PLEASANTGIFFT what?????
+PLEASANTGIFFT you're on every Jamaican video are you even Jamaican? I've never experienced racism a day in my life and I think that's better than what some blacks in America have to put up with, I've been to Canada never experienced racism there either but blacks go through discrimination in America, sometimes I wonder why people decide to leave Jamaica to go to America forever but I guess there are more opportunities, I'm a UWI student now and I hope that after all this hard work I can actually find a job in Jamaica and start my own family, etc. 😒
TheAlmightyMagikarp you’re statement is so offensive and loaded because you’re offering that the change is due to bad stewardship.
IRAQ Projekk what it doesn't look nice now
This is long before i was born. Thank you for sharing this. Going to send it to my mother. She was only 10 yrs at that time.
love the classic cars.
Thanks for posting. This took me back to the Jamaica I once knew and still love.
Beautiful era then was for most places in the Caribbean. Life was not violent nor too stressful then. People were respectful to each other ,caring and shared with each other. Folks use to look after any child who might be out looking to do wrong and correct them. Life was more pure and honest then. Love and unity gave people hope then when you didn’t have much. I sometimes wish that life didn’t moved on so fast so we could enjoy those simpler times. Caribbean Living is the BEST, but modern day living has tainted the way we live now.
I could see it now my father on his motorbike with his big Afro and sunglasses
THESE DAYS WAS GOOD DAYZ
Atleast me can say me ketch the likkle last tail ender years of it, being born in 1994 but jahkno if me cudda just get one wish from God, it would be to go back and re-live my life in those years, such peace, everybody seems healthy and happy. I'm pretty sure that decency, love and respect was at an all time high, and I doubt people cared too much about being rich and living in all the vanity that the youths a chase today. anyone who was a young child or teenager or adult during those years in Jamaica is abundantly blessed by God and I would switch places with you anyday
El Jamaiquino Music 94? U miss the boat completely papa. Love you still though.
I agree with you
+El Jamaiquino Music
So true. Prior to 1972 It was a wonderful time to live in Jamaica. Murder was rare news & tourist walked & drove alone throughout the island. People respected the elders, the dollar was basically equal to the U.S. dollar & overall quality of life was similar to the Bahamas & Barbados today & everyone had an opportunity to make it if they tried, until...
Then everything went down hill & many sought a better quality of life elsewhere.
Its a shame how one person's philosophy can change the course of a country.
You talking about Manley's push towards democratic socialism?
El Jamaiquino Music
Most definitely, that B.S. he called democratic-socialism, followed by his arrogant statement to the Business Community that there were: "five flights a day to Miami" which drove most of the Brainpower & Business Professionals out of Jamaica; something he stated he regretted doing & would've done things differently, but it was too late.
Jamaica has been a woeful disaster since.
Love this video,overwhelmed with memories.our nation went on the wrong path since the 1972 election,we took sides in international cold war politics big mistake,1972 election lots of fighting between pnp and jlp supporters,mostly stone throwing a minor amount of gun play.1976 election same thing but worst.1980 near damn civil war,country flooded with guns by outside forces.if we had not made certain political mistakes Jamaica would be so much better today.miss it so much,love it much beautiful Jamaica.
Wine Bottle Totally agree !!!
America is the destroyer of the world.
America would not have allowed Jamaica to be a paradise....
Yes, it was not just the CIA but MI6 as well. They did not want to see JA prosper and the then leaders and the ones today have sold out the people for 30 pieces of silver
Back in these days , there were no 1/4 millions , Tatas ,Shakas , . Strictly Jolly Bus we used to take . The L bus , G bus , A bus which was the short version of the G bus without the billboard without the lighted billboard over the windows ,& the F bus nicknamed Patty Pan . Such great kids memories riding Jolly buses especially X 77 .
que paseo ver este video !!!!! cheverisimo !!!!!!!!! pa estos tiempos nuestro querido bob marley estaba poniendo en alta una de las islas mas bellas del mundo JAMAICA!!!!!!!!!
Gracias senorita. Jamaica es guapa!!!
Just start going Kingston college nice era, good ole days love it, love the sound track
Classic! Vintage! Priceless! Bless up for this piece of my country...Happy 50th Independence to our beloved island, Jamaica land we will always love!!
Jah Jah know the best days ever on earth fi real memories lives on
Great tunes! Can't comment on anything else as I've never been. Marlon James got me here.
me too!
my father was 3 years old then thanks for this fotage it mean alot to me at 26 years old now
Thanks for this beautiful video Ian
Jamaica government needs to take responsibility!!! Poverty, illiteracy, crime .
Start by not accepting deportees from the U.S. or anywhere else... if crime committed abroad, let them serve abroad
Be careful of misinforming others. Our country is far from perfect but the present literacy rate is ~90% Great strides have been made in education.
Not just the government, the people. If the people don't care what can the government do compared the the amount of citizens in the country
We comparing our beautiful nation to that of america! And i say america singularly because most people do and it is a fact.
We gained independence within the last century, during this time honedtly believe we made tremendous strides. There are greater opportunities today than pre independence.
Yes we do have a crime problem, there is no going around that. But we compare with america and they have issues of crime too!
Every nation has had to deal with issues but the difference is americans remain committed to their ideals in making america the place everyone wants to go to. Jamaica can also be that, the evidence of this is in the striving of everyone productive contribution of jamaicans in the diaspora! Jamaica is great because its people are great.
Thank you finally someone understands 😔
Nice music….those were the days.
Wowza! We lived in Kingston 1967-69 (Jack's Hill area) when I was kid. My parents were with the foreign service. Have some great memories and this definitely brings them to life. Thanks for posting!
#2020 who is watching ?
Nice video .. from #WestAfrica #Ghana 🇬🇭 love seeing all those buildings back then As the same old buildings in Ghana .. big respect. to all the enslaved africans who laid the Africa living then...
This is so bittersweet. Thank You.
Very beautiful! Brings back so much good memories. Jamaica is the best country in the world. Sweet, sweet Jamaica.
Thank you very much for this video knowing I was born 10 years later it's still a honour
Actually, the song name is Jimmy as a job card, produced by Rupie Edwards. The Orgon D track, by Tyrone, is in the same Slavin riddim, great riddim btw, many good versions
General Echo did a bad ass tune on this rythem called"Adam& Eve.
Mr Vassell thanks, nice upload , I recognized Trench Town and Jones Town in Kingston in this Video i used to walk those streets as a youth, never had any problems it was always just love .
Wow watching in 2020
SWEET MEMORIES
Cool too see the LHD American cars sharing the same roads with the RHD English cars
Yes
What the hell happened? Everything looked so much more clean and orderly back then.
Politics and greed happened
I live in India. 1972 was when I was in Kingston for four months. What nice people, excellent hospitality and beautiful country
hello, where in india are you from ? i would like to contact you
@@MrFromthefuture maybe from Bombo bay?
I was born in trench town 1972 and I can remember my kawkee (khaki) school uniforms
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work the good old days when Jamaica was still nice 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Lovely memories
I was 4 years old and can remember it like it was yesterday i was living on rodney street and the next year 1973 we moved into jungle that was the best time of my life play marble.fly kite and ride skate big up joe brown. Jag glen. and man like 39 du bal dem man deh a original junglis Tony Welch sperline those were the good old days and man like tall dread big up all junglis
You remember Mr Shirley shop ?
Dem time here brigs back priceless kids memories Jolly bus was the Main mode of transportation . The L bus ,G bus ,A bus & the famous F bus a.k.a Patty Pan a str8 up Original garrison bus Dem . Great memories.
Such a simpler ,happy, clean and safe place den, me use to walk miles to school from Red Hills Rd to Pembrooke Hall bottom ( Pembrooke Hall Primary)
Моя Любовь 🎉❤ тебе земле JAMAICA и твоему народу❤❤❤❤
Wonderful Jamaican
The person who filmed this thank you this clip shows how Kingston Jamaica was Months before I was born.
2020 as a 15 year old about to be 16 i would say i woudlve liked to see jamaica back then tbh where JA was love
Jamaica ain't like this today especially Kingston.
This video brings back so many memories, and I wasn't even born at the time!
Best music came out of Jamaica in the seventies also DUBWISE KING TUBBY
Almost every body was slim back then. The fast food giants had not yet landed in Jamaica, and kids used to play games in open lots, not video games.
It looked so calm back then....Totally different now
i born1974 remember thou days. kingston 13.
Thanks for sharing!
I was in 4th form at SAHS getting ready for GCE “O” Level exam….enjoyed the freedom n general lack of fear….we use fi fraid a duppy more dan man…growing up in WR St Andrew was nice….use fi sleep wid di windows open..walk tru mi our lands n nyam everyting in sight…..go pon moonlight walks wid friends n use a glassjar full a peeny walley fi di light…walk go up Border n climb dung the ‘cliff’ so drop out pon di Junction infront of Castleton Gardens..den wen going home, hitchhike wid no fear to Temple Hall n den hitchhike or walk go home to LT…..every Easter, Independence n Boxing Day, we use fi have Fairn den dance at night..we kids couldn’t stay fi di dance but soundsystem set up early n we cou;d enjoy di music even in di daytime we were dere…a deh so my love of the music industry started…u n u frenz meet Satiday eena di village square since dat was market day…go GUNBOAT n BUCCANEER BEACH more time pon Sunday….stay wid frenz a town n sneak out go Red Gyal Ring go party to MERRITONES…oh lawd….BUTTT we must never figet dat dem years were a fight fi get we own fledgling music pon we own local radio station…yep….big up to MIKEY DREAD who led di way….n wat stands out sooooo much more to me, we kids respected ourselves, ourparents, our village, our teachers, police in our village…lived by the motto, ‘NO MEK U FAMBILY NAME CALL UP EENA COURTHOUSE….lastly, this poem we learned in Primary School to recite by heart still remains firmly in mi mind….
Nature
-H. D. Carberry
We have neither summer nor winter
neither autumn nor spring.
We have instead the days
when the gold sun shines
on the lush green canefields - magnificently.
The days when the rain beats
like bullets on the roofs
and there is no sound
but the swish of water in the gullies
and trees struggling in the high Jamaica winds.
Also there are the days
when leaves fade from off guango trees
and the reaped canefields
lie bare and fallow to the sun.
But best of all, there are the days
when the mango and the logwood blossom
When bushes are full of the sound of bees
and the scent of honey.
When the tall grass sways and shivers
to the slightest breath of air.
When the buttercups have paved the earth with yellow stars
and beauty comes suddenly, and the rains have gone.
I were 12 yrs. old growing up in Kingston. Jamaica 🇯🇲 was nice, people could walk anywhere, oh my I missed those days.
Wicked music selection my kind of riddims...oh yes the year I was born
The place was so clean I can smell the fresh air from watching this lol, and the police didn't look like they was going to war
I wish those days could come back......
Because everyone then had a machete or a knife and no one was more arm than is the neighbor so no need to fear anyone because they all equal. The only way crime will ever reduce in Jamaica is if everyone becomes equal again. All the states in the US that’s full of crime guns are band there. If I was the government of Jamaica every home would have the means to protect themselves.
Amazing tune
This brings back memories even though I'm an eighties baby.i love my country.
I was 12 years old❤
I was born that year. Not sure which month this video was made but if it’s before July i was still in the womb🤣🤣🤣 look how de road dem did pretty. My gosh
This was my Dad's time!
Good video , history , i like the first riddim , going to lick it back ,
Now I understand why the older people always say that they miss these days..
I AM NOT FROM JA, BUT I AM CARIBBEAN, THOSE WERE THE BEST DAYS, NO MONEY LOTS OF LOVE, PEACE AND HAPPINESS IN ALL OF THE CARIBBEAN,,,,....ONELOVE.....,,,...TOGETHER WE STAND, AS ASSHOLES WE FAILED MANY GENERATIONS...............GREED,,,,,,GREED,,,,,GREED,,,,,GREED,,,,,,EDUCATION WITH NO WORK ETHIC.......NO PRESENCE,,,,ETC.....
MSG Shillingford
In the early days Jamaican music 🎶 was incredible going on through the years to Bob Marley, Burning Spear, Big Youth, I Jahman Levi. Then slowly I ceased being inspired at this time. Maybe I have a Classic Soul and need music to turn me On. Anyway my brethren, what I hearing here does the trick.
I wanna go home ❤❤❤
The people APPEARED to be more "civil"
Appeared? I believe u mean they were.
People WERE more civil...
Ya mon
JamDown was paradise from the 60’s to 70’s. Late 70’s things began to change. It took a community to grow pickney. Back in those days, you could travel from Hannah Town to Jones Town then to Rema and Jungle coming down to Denham Town and Tivoli Garden then to Matthews Lane. Everyone looking out for each other because we were one people. Nothing back then last the street dances. The police and people from the communities enjoying themselves. What happened Jamaica?
You can’t blame the younger generation. I think politics destroyed Jamaica; and lack of education. All these things lead to corruption. When I was a youngster growing up, I was scared of election. I didn’t like the excitement and it was very violent. Now living in a different country, I see how beautiful Jamaica is. The government need to take education very serious and no more corruption. Or maybe Jamaica need a fresh start.
Who remember being downtowm parade at night when the L & G buses that J.O.S. used to operated back then light up their billboards over the windows at night how pretty they were .Till this day, no other buses that went to ja looks good at night like the L&G buses.
Politics mash up Jamaica. They divided and the people back then and had them fighting tribal wars. Now the younger generation is divided and don't know why.
Wake up you are dreaming Jamaica been a violent Jamaica from the 1920s do your homework fooool
That 3yrs before me born life look nice back then the place even look safe and peaceful when a man tell you I'm love you in those days they mean it
From 4:05 - 5:19 in the video that was Jones town and Craig town. It looks so different and everything changed but the roads are still the same that's how I know
Its nice to see how Jamaica looked like back in 1972. Btw, may I know at 8:13, which sound track is that? It's wonderful music. Thank you for sharing it here. :)
It's the dub of LONE RANGER - Keep On Coming A The Dance:
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wow a soh jamaica did look😄😄