Ernie Smith

b. Glenroy Ernest Smith, c.1948, Jamaica, West Indies. Smith in the beginning loved notoriety when his solitary ‘Pitta Patta’, supported with ‘Lichfield Landscapes’, topped the Jamaican graphs in 1973, making use of Lee Perry’s ‘musical transplant’ tempo. The music was voted as the very best song of the entire year in Jamaica by Golf swing journal. The lyrics had been also modified by Lloyd Charmers for his lewd ‘Big Eight’, advertised as the reggae option to Judge Dread’s strike. An album implemented, with Smith covering ‘I Appreciate You To Want Me’ and ‘Help Me Make It Through The Evening’, both effectively documented by John Holt. In 1974 Smith implemented the strike with ‘Duppy Or A Gunman’ as well as the similarly popular ‘Essential Credit card’, echoing the patois design made well-known by Pluto. ‘Duppy Or A Gunman’ was effectively covered by Internal Circle and curiosity about the initial was regenerated a decade afterwards with Yellowman. Smith became mixed up in Wildflower collective, referred to as XYZ productions, alongside Lloyd Charmers, where they released several chart-topping strikes including Ken Boothe’s interpretation of ‘Everything I Very own’, that was a global bestseller. Furthermore to his very own documenting, Smith was also in charge of Tinga Stewart’s Jamaican Melody Festival champion, ‘Play De Music’. Johnny Nash acquired documented the disdained Celebrate Lifestyle which led the vocalist on a journey to Jamaica searching for inspiration. The effect was Smith’s structure ‘Tears On My Cushion (I Can’t Stand It)’ which topped the united kingdom graph in June 1975. By 1976 Smith’s design was no more in fashion, although he continuing to enjoy reputation with an increase of mature listeners, launching several middle-of-the-road and gospel-influenced albums. In 1980 he documented a edition of Bob Marley’s ‘Flex Down Low’, created with Lloyd Charmers.