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Vocalist Bob McCord formed the Vibrations in 1961 with guitarists Roger Cooke and Al Duff, bassist Keith McDonnell, drummer Tom Bennett and organist Pat Brynes. The Ontario music group recorded one well-known solitary, “I Missed My 12 months,” in 1964, but split the following 12 months when McCord remaining the …

b. Barbara Anne Smith, 3 March 1961, Kingston, Jamaica, Western world Indies. In the past due 70s a fresh influx of DJs including Charlie Chaplin, Josie Wales and Brigadier Jerry had been plying their trade in the dancehalls. The amount of feminine performers in the same region was small, so …

b. Norman Suppria, 19 March 1961, Kingston, Jamaica, Western Indies. Suppria was among 16 siblings elevated by his mom within the ghetto of Arnett Landscapes, an area recorded within the Wailers strike ‘Cement Jungle’. He started chanting on the neighborhood sound systems carrying out as Dickie Position and by the …