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If you’re acquainted with the tune “The Tide Is High” you almost certainly know it as a big success for Blondie, but before Deborah Harry and firm got a your hands on it, it had been a 1960s hit for the Paragons. Produced in Kingston, Jamaica, the Paragons had been …

Bob Andy (given birth to Keith Anderson) is among reggae’s most influential songwriters. His past due-’60s strikes, including “Heading House,” “Unchained,” “Sense Spirit,” “My Period,” “The Ghetto Remains in your brain,” and “Experience the sensation,” and his 1992 strike, “Fire Burning up,” have grown to be reggae standards and also …