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Harry J

Harry J has been played on NTS shows including Peking Spring w/ Jon K, with Man Needs A Dub first played on 20 November 2016.

Harry Johnson aka Harry J (born c. 1945, Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae producer.

Harry Johnson started to play music with The Virtues as a bass player but soon quit to work as an insurance salesman. He first appeared as a music producer in 1968, when he launch his label "Harry J" by releasing The Beltones' local hit "No More Heartaches" considered by many to be the very first reggae song ever recorded along with the Studio One single "Nanny Goat". His agreement with Coxsone Dodd allowed him to use Studio One's facilities where he produced the hit "Cuss Cuss" with singer Lloyd Robinson, which became one of the most covered riddim in Jamaica.

In October 1969, he met success in the UK with "Liquidator" (number 9 in the charts) recorded with his session band The Harry J All Stars. This single became one of the anthems of the emerging skinhead youth movement together with other instrumental hits released in the UK through his own subdivision "Harry J" on Trojan in a compilation of the same name. In the beginning of the 70s, apart from other UK compilations of his own Jamaican productions, including songs by The Cables, Tony Scott, Busty Brown, Val Bennett to name a few, he enjoyed another big success with the vocal duo Bob & Marcia (Bob Andy with Marcia Griffiths) with the song "Young, Gifted and Black", one of the first reggae tune with strings.

His productions also include Jamaican hits with DJs like Winston Blake or Scotty among others and many dub versions.

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Harry J

Harry J has been played on NTS shows including Peking Spring w/ Jon K, with Man Needs A Dub first played on 20 November 2016.

Harry Johnson aka Harry J (born c. 1945, Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae producer.

Harry Johnson started to play music with The Virtues as a bass player but soon quit to work as an insurance salesman. He first appeared as a music producer in 1968, when he launch his label "Harry J" by releasing The Beltones' local hit "No More Heartaches" considered by many to be the very first reggae song ever recorded along with the Studio One single "Nanny Goat". His agreement with Coxsone Dodd allowed him to use Studio One's facilities where he produced the hit "Cuss Cuss" with singer Lloyd Robinson, which became one of the most covered riddim in Jamaica.

In October 1969, he met success in the UK with "Liquidator" (number 9 in the charts) recorded with his session band The Harry J All Stars. This single became one of the anthems of the emerging skinhead youth movement together with other instrumental hits released in the UK through his own subdivision "Harry J" on Trojan in a compilation of the same name. In the beginning of the 70s, apart from other UK compilations of his own Jamaican productions, including songs by The Cables, Tony Scott, Busty Brown, Val Bennett to name a few, he enjoyed another big success with the vocal duo Bob & Marcia (Bob Andy with Marcia Griffiths) with the song "Young, Gifted and Black", one of the first reggae tune with strings.

His productions also include Jamaican hits with DJs like Winston Blake or Scotty among others and many dub versions.

Original source: Last.fm

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