Johnny Reggae

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Blog on, dear, blog on (and tell Chris I know what it’s like going deaf; I can only just hear The Piglets).

The lead vocals have been at various times been incorrectly attributed to Adrienne Posta or Wendy Richard. Once formed as a one-man-band trio, the band has been playing as a classic 4-piece for the last few years. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. You know, a girl with an Essex accent sings, ‘Reggae, Reggae, Reggae, Here comes Johnny Reggae, Reggae, Reggae, Reggae, Lay it on me'” Chris sang. However, if you or your visitors are logged into Lemonrock, your changes will be visible immediately.Horses for courses; some loved it, some hated it; I personally thought it was rather fun and my bank manager loved it! King himself in his autobiography 65 My Life So Far says it was, indeed, session singers with the lead vocal performed by Barbara Kay, then in her 40s. King first came to prominence in 1965 when "Everyone's Gone to the Moon", a song that he wrote and sang while still an undergraduate, achieved chart success in Britain and the United States.

Johnny Reggae” is one of the most famous King songs from the period in the mid-1960s to late-1970s when King had a string of hits in the UK Singles Chart under a variety of pseudonyms and under his own name. Their amazingly phenomenally successful ditty of "Johnny Reggae" has crashed the chart this week and seems set to be an instant No. Possibly the colour version on film insert might as well (without the list in front of me, I can't say for sure). putting parent EMI ltd UK to shame in still cutting and pressing mono singles, Bell and Tamla Motown suffering the worst, the reasoned technical excuse that BBC radio 1 was still broadcasting on wavey-in and out AM mono, does not cut it. While recording and mixing we had great support by Skankaroos frontman Niklas, who was on hand with help and advice.The group sang this a cod-Caribbean knees-up and featured TV actress Adrienne Posta on chirpy cockney lead vocals. As far as I remember, it was represented on TOTPs by a series of comic book (with text bubbles etc) style dawings. So doing I am now certain the voice belongs to King himself,but still more vehement denials "The Piglets are nobody.

After that incident Mr Johnson became much more popular amongst the artistic community of Dawlish and I enjoyed many good deals on framing and art supplies. Mr Johnson was busy making frames out in the back workroom when I had come in but I was happy looking at paints while I waited for him to finish what he was doing.If you think that’s a peculiar title for my blog post today, well, it’s Chris’s fault… if there is any blame to be attached to the consequences of reading this particular entry. I too have had Johnny Reggae in my ear since we played it on my radio show last Tuesday and find myself half wanting to share this song with friends and half too embarrassed to admit that I kinda like it. They were attributed at various times to various artists, most frequently to the typecast-tart actress Adrienne Posta and at times to Wendy Richard and to Kay Barry, [1]; some claim that the vocalists were trained (anonymous) session singers coached to sound like teenage girls. I thought, because Mr Johnson, a relative newcomer to the town from Birmingham (and not generally well-liked owing to his lack of a sense of humour) had hitherto been a rather dour and curt man. Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.