The Folkes Brothers

The three brothers Folkes, Michael, John and Eric as well as Count Ossie and his drummers, Owen Gray (piano) and further vocalist Skitter visited Prince Buster’s studio and recorded a vintage of Jamaican music. To become labelled a one-hit-wonder is normally something of the insult, but to be always a one-record-wonder can be an accolade. The Jamaican performers who have produced one perfect documenting and vanished, departing a reputation permanently untarnished by later on lapses, could possibly be counted around the fingers of 1 hands. The Folkes Brothers are among that quantity: in 1961 or early 1962 they documented ‘Oh Carolina’, a distinctive and perfect solitary, and never made an appearance once again. The record offers Count number Ossie’s Rastafarian drummers thundering out complicated African cross-rhythms, Grey’s contrastingly American-styled on piano, as well as the Brothers, having a soulful lead vocalist Skitter and two lighter-voiced male accompanists, providing the track. In 1993 an up to date edition of ‘Oh Carolina’ reached #1 1 in the united kingdom graphs for ragga vocalist Shaggy.