{"id":11688,"date":"2025-11-22T02:59:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T02:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=11688"},"modified":"2025-12-05T12:31:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T12:31:26","slug":"11688-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=11688","title":{"rendered":"Glen Ricks the All Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty-six years ago, a trio named The Fabulous Flames performed at Caribana in Toronto. There, they met fellow Jamaican Glen Ricks, a resident of that city who agreed to join them.\u00a0 Within one year, they had a massive hit with their reggae cover of Neil Diamond\u2019s <strong><em>\u2018Holly Holy\u2019<\/em><\/strong>. That song, produced by Clancy Eccles, turned 55 this year.<\/p>\n<p>Once signed to CBS Canada, Ricks is still active, recording songs for producers in Jamaica, the United States and Europe. Two of his latest songs can be found on \u2018All Star Album\u2019, a compilation produced by Earl Messam for Wildfire Records. It was released on November 17.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2018When Love is New\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and a cover of Beres Hammond&#8217;s <strong><em>\u2018No Goodbye\u2019<\/em><\/strong> are Ricks\u2019 songs on the 22-track set. The latter is a collaboration with Shan Bam, a singer from Philadelphia where Wildfire Records is based.<\/p>\n<p>Ricks is one of the established artists on <strong><em>\u2018All Star Album\u2019<\/em><\/strong>. Others include Jah Cure and Alborosie, who share the mic on <strong><em>\u2018Give Thanks for Life\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran singer Anaconda, who began recording in 2000, has five songs on the album. They are \u2018Don\u2019t Come A mi Yard\u2019, <strong><em>\u2018Woman\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>\u2018Caribbean Queen\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>\u2018Love my Flow\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018Lady I Wanna Know You\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Shan Bam also has five songs, all collaborations. The others are <strong><em>\u2018Tonight is The Night\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018Lonely Night\u2019<\/em><\/strong> (with Nate the Great), <strong><em>\u2018Wanna Wake Up\u2019<\/em><\/strong> (with Ian Sweetness) and <strong><em>\u2018Want You for Life\u2019<\/em><\/strong> (with Nate The Great and Kr Kinetic).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty-six years ago, a trio named The Fabulous Flames performed at Caribana in Toronto. There, they met fellow Jamaican Glen Ricks, a resident of that city who agreed to join them.\u00a0 Within one year, they had a massive hit with their reggae cover of Neil Diamond\u2019s \u2018Holly Holy\u2019. That song, produced by Clancy Eccles, turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[240,239],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-11688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canadian-news","category-international-news","tag-featured"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11688","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=11688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11690,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11688\/revisions\/11690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}