This is the best body of work for the upliftment of the African Caribbean community...projecting it's heroes with such clarity and depth takes nothing short of super human effort... alas hope cometh. Keep up the good work, and more supernatural blessings be upon you brother🙏
Jah know. Sleepy ah mi bredrin Amd fellow artist. We must respect each other in the music. We MUST set an example for the younger artist. Jah live ❤️💛💚
The Production at that time and marketing did not have a proper royalty system to help support artists and labels were also struggling to stay alive with those recordings. Watching all the way from Vanuatu
A singer sings a song, the producer pays the singer and the musicians and then the process begins of producing the finished product which comes out of the producers pocket, yes the producers pocket, before it hits the road. Some singers will sing a song, get paid and then want to get paid again, what type of madness is that ? That's what tours are about. That's were the artist/s can make their money. In case you didn't know, the first note in a musical scale is called doe. Singers, musicians and producers are all working towards getting dough (bread/money). Only a fool will give whey him batty and sh!t through their ribs. It's not called the music charity, it's called the music business and its industry driven. Uncomfortable facts but still facts !
I know Trojan records well. They, and other record companies, never paid the artists. The producers would give the artist a couple of dollars then it's their song. I know artists whose songs were smash hits in the UK and US while they starved in Jamaica. They need to write this wrong.
This is the central reason why I can't rate Jamaican Entertainment Family. We sit around for years and let crooks steal our creations and we refused from calling them out. I will pull back and give a shout-out to Peter Tosh for calling out Chris Blackwell. The saga continue.
Did they? Really? UB40 barely recorded a song of their own making. Almost everything they recorded was a cover version, badly covered musically also. The Campbell ‘family’ became multi millionaires by covering classic songs by artists who received nothing more than a few dollars for their work. No royalties from the robbing producers in Kingston. Only those producers, I.e Bunny Lee, Coxone Dodd, Leslie Kong and countless others reaped the rewards from their talents. Blackwell saw a niche there and had massive success with Trojan back in the 70’s. Two other examples; Blondie. Tide is High, written and originally recorded by the legendary John Holt. Simply Red, Night Nurse, recorded by Lord Creator. Both artists dead and gone. Two Tone records headed by Jerry Dammers also had a big chunk of the pie from this ‘free’ abundance of music. So many of those artists are still trying to scrape together some sort of income in this country, even today, many of them in their late 70’s. Check out the interview with Dennis Alcapone on UA-cam where you’ll get the facts.
@@reggaegistxtra_ng I saw a interview with both Winston francis and ken Boothe ...both said ub40 paid them enough to buy a house..of which they were eternally grateful!!
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This is the best body of work for the upliftment of the African Caribbean community...projecting it's heroes with such clarity and depth takes nothing short of super human effort... alas hope cometh. Keep up the good work, and more supernatural blessings be upon you brother🙏
Jah know. Sleepy ah mi bredrin Amd fellow artist. We must respect each other in the music. We MUST set an example for the younger artist. Jah live ❤️💛💚
The Production at that time and marketing did not have a proper royalty system to help support artists and labels were also struggling to stay alive with those recordings. Watching all the way from Vanuatu
I WORK FOR MONEY OWN MR HORACE ANDY LIVING LEGEND REGGIE MUSIC JAH RASTAFARI ❤️💛💚🇯🇲🇪🇹🦁
These people need to pay the artist ah them ah put in the work. That's why I rate Khargo he made sure he got his.
Horace Andy great singer
Blessed
I hope Horace gets his due
Lineal Thompson never paid johnny osbourne....jammy never paid king kong. Toots didn't get paid for a ton of records. It's all sad
A singer sings a song, the producer pays the singer and the musicians and then the process begins of producing the finished product which comes out of the producers pocket, yes the producers pocket, before it hits the road. Some singers will sing a song, get paid and then want to get paid again, what type of madness is that ? That's what tours are about. That's were the artist/s can make their money. In case you didn't know, the first note in a musical scale is called doe. Singers, musicians and producers are all working towards getting dough (bread/money). Only a fool will give whey him batty and sh!t through their ribs. It's not called the music charity, it's called the music business and its industry driven. Uncomfortable facts but still facts !
I know Trojan records well. They, and other record companies, never paid the artists. The producers would give the artist a couple of dollars then it's their song. I know artists whose songs were smash hits in the UK and US while they starved in Jamaica. They need to write this wrong.
Dee James: Seems like this was a common theme for many reggae artists over the years. It's quite sickening and should be redressed, I agree.
This is the central reason why I can't rate Jamaican Entertainment Family. We sit around for years and let crooks steal our creations and we refused from calling them out. I will pull back and give a shout-out to Peter Tosh for calling out Chris Blackwell. The saga continue.
Ub40 paid artists when covering songs
Did they? Really? UB40 barely recorded a song of their own making. Almost everything they recorded was a cover version, badly covered musically also. The Campbell ‘family’ became multi millionaires by covering classic songs by artists who received nothing more than a few dollars for their work. No royalties from the robbing producers in Kingston. Only those producers, I.e Bunny Lee, Coxone Dodd, Leslie Kong and countless others reaped the rewards from their talents. Blackwell saw a niche there and had massive success with Trojan back in the 70’s. Two other examples; Blondie. Tide is High, written and originally recorded by the legendary John Holt. Simply Red, Night Nurse, recorded by Lord Creator. Both artists dead and gone. Two Tone records headed by Jerry Dammers also had a big chunk of the pie from this ‘free’ abundance of music. So many of those artists are still trying to scrape together some sort of income in this country, even today, many of them in their late 70’s. Check out the interview with Dennis Alcapone on UA-cam where you’ll get the facts.
Many thanks for your thoughts.
@@reggaegistxtra_ng I saw a interview with both Winston francis and ken Boothe ...both said ub40 paid them enough to buy a house..of which they were eternally grateful!!