By Roy Black--- Ernie Smith--- Last week's Music Diaries revealed how songwriters, especially those in early popular music, made heroes and heroines out of singers through their writing, while they themselves
The Lost Books of Ska Vol. 1 By Howard Campbell --- New ska album with Watty Burnett, Lester Sterling, Ernest Ranglin, Dean Fraser, Derrick Morgan, Stranger Cole and U-Roy. Anyone who moves in
Millie Small-- By Shereita Grizzle-- The year was 1964, the song was My Boy Lollipop, and the singer was a teenage Jamaican girl named Millie Small. The single was only
'Roots of Reggae -The Ernie Ranglin Story' will also show at the festival. Ernie Ranglin will help honor Charles Hyatt on Monday.- Claudine HousenStaff Photographer---- By Shereita Grizzle--- At
Ernie Smith-- When Ernie Smith recorded the slow ballad I Can't Take It, at the Federal Recording Studios in 1967, he had to convince himself he was a singer of sorts. Smith