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I know he didn't write it:

Aint No Sunshine - Jimmy Lindsey also Horace Andy did a version

Shinehead did Billy Jean / Mama Used To Say in 1984, which was a huge seller on the reggae market in the uk - failed to crack the national charts even when re released by virgin. Oh yeah, that was it, failure to gain airplay by the radio stations that matter. Twenty five years later, is reggae still heard on daytime radio, apart from pirates, choice fm and onextra?

lenroy wrote:Shinehead did Billy Jean / Mama Used To Say in 1984, which was a huge seller on the reggae market in the uk - failed to crack the national charts even when re released by virgin. Oh yeah, that was it, failure to gain airplay by the radio stations that matter. Twenty five years later, is reggae still heard on daytime radio, apart from pirates, choice fm and onextra?

For what it's worth, the only reggae I've heard on the radio recently (say in the last couple of years) has been the odd Bob Marley or UB40 tune...

Junior Reid - Mashing Up The Earth

(not really sure if a mj tune)

You get the occasional reggae (or ska or rocksteady) record on Brian Matthew's Sounds of the 60s Saturday morning show on BBC Radio 2, also some soul, but you get a hell of a lot of rubbish too!

Seems like we're forgetting Cocoa Tea's brilliant version/adaption of Human Nature (Jah Made Them That Way) on the answer riddim from Rocking Dolly...

Ricky Grant/Horace andy doing "The Girl IS Mine" on Carron 12"

Shake Your Body Down by Little Carlos on Love Train 12"

Rudy Thomas/Welton Irie-Shake your body Down to the ground-Joe Gibbs
Charlie Chaplin-Killer-Power house

little kirk - mam in he mirror

There is also a wicked Early B track over the Billie Jean riddim on his LP with Triston Palma. Killer Early B !!