BBC4 TV - Friday 11 Ocbober, 9.30pm
The story of the Kingston, Jamaica, studio is told through some of the thousands of tapes that were believed lost after the Chinese-Jamaican owners Vincent and Pat Chin left for New York in the 1970s. As well as a treasure house of unreleased recordings, a recording of the teenage voice of Dennis Brown is mixed with the vocals of rising star Hollie Stephenson to create a new track. Plus interviews with Jimmy Cliff, Lee "Scratch" Perry and Pat Chin and their son Clive (Studio 17's A&R man).
On Page 112 of RT Mark Braxton writes:
"People point and say, 'That is the place you wanna be, that is the dream land', Fattie Bum-Bum singer Carl Malcolm is talking about the four-track Studio 17, above Randy Records in Kingston, Jamaica. The ramshackle building hosted sessions from Lord Creator, Augustus Pablo and Bob Marley and the Wailers (a classic Albums on Catch a Fire follows.
But Reshma B, with the enviable job title of reggae journalist, is more interested in its owner, Vincent "Randy" Chin, a Jamaican of Chinese descent, and in the quest to save an archive of recordings that were lost when Chin and his family left for New York
The story of the Kingston, Jamaica, studio is told through some of the thousands of tapes that were believed lost after the Chinese-Jamaican owners Vincent and Pat Chin left for New York in the 1970s. As well as a treasure house of unreleased recordings, a recording of the teenage voice of Dennis Brown is mixed with the vocals of rising star Hollie Stephenson to create a new track. Plus interviews with Jimmy Cliff, Lee "Scratch" Perry and Pat Chin and their son Clive (Studio 17's A&R man).
On Page 112 of RT Mark Braxton writes:
"People point and say, 'That is the place you wanna be, that is the dream land', Fattie Bum-Bum singer Carl Malcolm is talking about the four-track Studio 17, above Randy Records in Kingston, Jamaica. The ramshackle building hosted sessions from Lord Creator, Augustus Pablo and Bob Marley and the Wailers (a classic Albums on Catch a Fire follows.
But Reshma B, with the enviable job title of reggae journalist, is more interested in its owner, Vincent "Randy" Chin, a Jamaican of Chinese descent, and in the quest to save an archive of recordings that were lost when Chin and his family left for New York
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