{"id":10765,"date":"2025-05-30T10:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T10:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=10765"},"modified":"2025-05-30T10:03:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T10:03:24","slug":"tony-roy-covers-a-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=10765","title":{"rendered":"Tony Roy Covers a Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A massive hit for American singer Lobo in 1972, <strong><em>\u2018I\u2019d Love You to Want Me\u2019 <\/em><\/strong>was also a smash for John Holt, who covered the song for his acclaimed album, <strong><em>\u20181000 Volts of Holt\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, released the following year.<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore-based singer Tony Roy also takes a crack at the classic ballad. He co-produced his version with Wayne Holness. Interestingly, Tony Roy had no knowledge of the original. He first heard Holt\u2019s cover three years ago while vacationing in Arizona and was determined to put his spin on it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first time I heard it, I know I had to do a version. Dat song neva leave my head,\u201d said Tony Roy.<\/p>\n<p>Holness, a keyboardist and bass guitarist, is one of the musicians who accompanied him on <strong><em>\u2018I\u2019d Love You to Want Me\u2019<\/em><\/strong>. Drummer\/percussionist Joslyn McKenzie, guitarist Ragmar &#8220;GSharp&#8221; Rochester, saxophonist Walter Tates Jr and Maria Smith on background vocals, complete the band.<\/p>\n<p>From St. Thomas parish in eastern Jamaica, Tony Roy has lived in the Baltimore\/Washington DC region for almost 30 years. He is a mainstay of that area\u2019s reggae scene, playing drums in bands such as Rising Sun and Covenant.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2018Bad Boy Johnny\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>&#8216;Live My Life\u2019<\/em><\/strong> are two of Tony Roy\u2019s previous songs. \u2018Waiting List&#8217;, his album, was released in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive hit for American singer Lobo in 1972, \u2018I\u2019d Love You to Want Me\u2019 was also a smash for John Holt, who covered the song for his acclaimed album, \u20181000 Volts of Holt\u2019, released the following year. Baltimore-based singer Tony Roy also takes a crack at the classic ballad. He co-produced his version with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10766,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10765\/revisions\/10766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}