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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 …

b. Garth Evans, c.1944, Jamaica, Western world Indies, d. 19 Oct 2000, NY, USA. While vocalist Evans was savoring success using the Paragons he also documented the tiny known solo part ‘I Don’t Treatment’, at Coxsone Dodd’s Studio room One alongside his early collaborator Bob Andy. Regardless of their tremendous …