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Reggae with handclaps?

Author : Pots n Pans
Date : May 6, 2012 17:44

I heard the old Shirley Ellis tune 'The Clapping Song' the other day, and it got me thinking. Handclaps get used in soul and rock music regularly enough, but I can't think of any reggae tunes that feature them. There must be a few, and I'm just being foggy-brained, but I'm drawing a blank. Anyone think of any examples?

Re: Reggae with handclaps?

Author : Nandez
Date : May 6, 2012 21:03

Jo Jo Bennett - "The Lecture"

Sugar Minott - "Raggamuffin Man" (this one is super clappy!)

Re: Reggae with handclaps?

Author : DUDLEY 1NE
Date : May 7, 2012 00:04

Lots of rub-a-dub Studio 1 materials.

Re: Reggae with handclaps?

Author : Inyaki
Date : May 10, 2012 16:30

Real hand claps or the sound of the drum machine?

Wailers - Slave Driver

Re: Reggae with handclaps?

Author : abey
Date : May 11, 2012 00:00

2 completely diferent tunes:

Toots & The Maytals - Reggae got soul

and I read about Jammy programming drum machine claps in the Sleng Teng riddim

Re: Reggae with handclaps?

Author : Inyaki
Date : May 11, 2012 10:29

Sleng Teng doesn't have that sound, is just the straight pre-set of the MT40, but the next Jammys cut ( Pinchers' ''Agony'') a couple of years later it had indeed.
Many Prince Buster Ska productions used handclaps.
Not that common in Rock Steady / Reggae classic eras.

Re: Reggae with handclaps?

Author : Pots n Pans
Date : May 18, 2012 17:38

You are right about it not being that common in the rocksteady/reggae era. I wonder if that's due to the rhythm guitar marking out the offbeat (where handclaps often seem to go) during the late 60s and all through the 70s? They do seem to be a lot more common on the dancehall and digi stuff.

Surprised I forget the Jo Jo Bennett tune though!

Re: Reggae with handclaps?

Author : Brother Justin
Date : May 24, 2012 22:56

Rita Marley / One Draw

has some nice 80's style clapping

Re: Reggae with handclaps?

Author : Gabranth
Date : May 25, 2012 12:58

Brother Justin wrote :Rita Marley / One Draw

has some nice 80's style clapping

This tune has a nice 12" mix. Students in a classroom tell their holiday/ganja-stories (sorry for being off topic).

Re: Reggae with handclaps?

Date : August 19, 2012 01:11

toots and the maytals - country road

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