{"id":11229,"date":"2025-08-29T10:33:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T10:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=11229"},"modified":"2025-08-29T10:36:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T10:36:55","slug":"feeling-nice-with-lloyd-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=11229","title":{"rendered":"Feeling Nice with Lloyd Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although he is known as one of reggae\u2019s foremost bass guitarists, Lloyd Parks has several hit songs as an artist, the most noted being <strong><em>\u2018Officially\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018Slaving\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, released during the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>Parks recently released <strong><em>\u2018You Making me Feel Nice\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, a track he recorded many years ago. The self-produced single hit the market shortly before he and his We the People Band headed to Rototom Sunsplash in Spain where they backed Ken Boothe and Marcia Griffiths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a lost and found song; it was recorded some years ago and I lose the track sheet so I couldn&#8217;t find the song and the box wasn&#8217;t marked or anything. This was a song I loved and was so excited about, that I even dreamed that I heard it playing somewhere,\u201d Parks explained.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran musician happened on the track while transferring songs from a 24-track tape to his hard drive and immediately mixed it.\u00a0\u2018You Making me Feel Nice\u2019 features musicians Parks collaborated with over the years including guitarist Winston \u201cBo Pee\u201d Bowen, trombonist Nambo Robinson and keyboardist Franklyn \u201cBubbler\u201d Waul.<\/p>\n<p>This has been a memorable year for Parks, who started his career in the late 1960s as a singer with harmony groups, The Termites and The Techniques. While he has played on countless hit songs like <strong><em>\u2018\u2018Everything I Own\u2019<\/em><\/strong> by Ken Boothe and \u2018<strong><em>Girl, I Love You\u2019<\/em><\/strong> by Horace Andy, Parks recorded songs as a singer and had a hit in the 1980s with <strong><em>\u2018Reservation for Two\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In July, he was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by Reggae Sumfest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although he is known as one of reggae\u2019s foremost bass guitarists, Lloyd Parks has several hit songs as an artist, the most noted being \u2018Officially\u2019 and \u2018Slaving\u2019, released during the 1970s. Parks recently released \u2018You Making me Feel Nice\u2019, a track he recorded many years ago. The self-produced single hit the market shortly before he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11229","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\/11229","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=11229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11230,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229\/revisions\/11230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}