{"id":2576,"date":"2021-12-16T18:11:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T18:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2021-12-16T18:11:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T18:11:38","slug":"harry-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=2576","title":{"rendered":"Harry J"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Born in\u00a0<a title=\"Westmoreland Parish\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Westmoreland_Parish\">Westmoreland Parish<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Jamaica\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamaica\">Jamaica<\/a>, Johnson started to play music with the Virtues as a bass player before moving into management of the group. <sup id=\"cite_ref-Billboard_1-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Larkin_3-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>When the band split up he worked as an insurance salesman.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Larkin_3-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0He first appeared as a record producer in 1968, when he launched his own record label, &#8220;Harry J&#8221;, by releasing The Beltones&#8217; local\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Chart-topper\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chart-topper\">hit<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;No More Heartaches&#8221;, one of the earliest reggae songs to be recorded.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Larkin_3-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0His agreement with\u00a0<a title=\"Coxsone Dodd\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coxsone_Dodd\">Coxsone Dodd<\/a>\u00a0allowed him to use Studio One&#8217;s facilities, where he produced the hit &#8220;Cuss Cuss&#8221; with singer Lloyd Robinson, which became one of the most covered\u00a0<a title=\"Riddim\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Riddim\">riddims<\/a> in Jamaica.\u00a0<sup id=\"cite_ref-Larkin_3-3\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>Johnson also released music under a subsidiary label, Jaywax.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harry_J\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in\u00a0Westmoreland Parish,\u00a0Jamaica, Johnson started to play music with the Virtues as a bass player before moving into management of the group. When the band split up he worked as an insurance salesman.\u00a0He first appeared as a record producer in 1968, when he launched his own record label, &#8220;Harry J&#8221;, by releasing The Beltones&#8217; local\u00a0hit\u00a0&#8220;No [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-2576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reggae-icons","tag-facts"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2577,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions\/2577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}