{"id":12370,"date":"2026-04-03T11:12:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=12370"},"modified":"2026-04-03T11:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:19:20","slug":"tony-roy-revives-flying-machine-with-reggae-flavour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=12370","title":{"rendered":"Tony Roy Revives \u2018Flying Machine\u2019 with Reggae Flavour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Tony Roy, who had considerable success in 2025 with a cover of Lobo\u2019s\u00a0<strong><em>\u2018I\u2019d Love You to Want Me,\u2019<\/em><\/strong> has followed up with a reggae spin on\u00a0<strong><em>\u2018Flying Machine,\u2019<\/em><\/strong> another pop hit from the early 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>Originally done by British star Cliff Richard,\u00a0<strong><em>\u2018Flying Machine\u2019<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0was made popular in Jamaica by Teddy Magnus, known to most Jamaicans as Allan Magnus, the popular broadcaster from Radio Jamaica. Roy\u2019s version is produced by Wayne Holness, who also played bass and keyboards on the track.<\/p>\n<p>The Maryland-based artiste was encouraged by veteran broadcaster Clinton Lindsay to cover\u00a0<strong><em>\u2018Flying Machine.\u2019<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe suggested that\u00a0<strong><em>\u2018Flying Machine\u2019<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0would be a nice fit for my style after doing\u00a0<strong><em>\u2018I\u2019d Love You to Want Me,\u2019<\/em><\/strong> so we went ahead and put some different touches to this version,\u201d said Roy.<\/p>\n<p>Currently number 15 on the South Florida Top 25 Chart, the song is in its eighth week on that table.<\/p>\n<p>The original\u00a0<strong><em>\u2018Flying Machine\u2019<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0came out in 1971 and was a hit in the United Kingdom. That year, Magnus did a reggae version for producer Lynford Anderson which was a big hit in Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p>Roy, who is from St Thomas, has been a fixture on the Maryland\/Washington DC reggae scene for decades. His reggae takes on<em>\u00a0<\/em><strong>\u2018I\u2019d Love You to Want Me\u2019<\/strong><em>\u00a0<\/em>(the original was released in 1972) topped the South Florida Reggae Chart and Foundation Radio Network Chart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Tony Roy, who had considerable success in 2025 with a cover of Lobo\u2019s\u00a0\u2018I\u2019d Love You to Want Me,\u2019 has followed up with a reggae spin on\u00a0\u2018Flying Machine,\u2019 another pop hit from the early 1970s. Originally done by British star Cliff Richard,\u00a0\u2018Flying Machine\u2019\u00a0was made popular in Jamaica by Teddy Magnus, known to most Jamaicans as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12370","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\/12370","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=12370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12371,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12370\/revisions\/12371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}