OH CAROLINA

Created on 04/10/2001
Latest update on 25/03/2024

Artist: Folkes Brothers
Author: John Folkes
Label: Wild Bells
Year: 1960

John, Meko & Junior with the Rasta Nyahbinghi drummers of Count Ossie's Afro Combo (see Grounation). Oldest backbeat recording in Jamaica during Prince Buster's first session in Kingston's RJR studio. In UK on Blue Beat ('61). Uses the same intro as in Cause I Love You by Carla & Rufus Thomas (Satellite - 1960).

Covers:

1970:

Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari

1976:

Junior Byles [rocksteady version]

1992:

Shaggy [n°1 UK with underlying theme taken from Peter Gunn]

Based on a Caribbian folk melody. Royalties on Shaggy's hit version ended up with John Folkes instead of producer Prince Buster. In a MOJO interview (Sept. '97) Buster stated: "If Folkes wrote that, then let him show me one other thing he's written that even looks like a song".

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