{"id":2713,"date":"2022-01-15T08:35:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T08:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2022-01-21T10:25:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T10:25:37","slug":"brand-new-from-leroy-and-marcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=2713","title":{"rendered":"Brand new from Leroy and Marcia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For their first collaboration, reggae legends Leroy Sibbles and Marcia Griffiths put a reggae spin on a soul classic. That song<strong><em>, \u2018You Make me Feel Brand New\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, is scheduled for release next week. It is produced by Sibbles, former lead singer of The Heptones and a cornerstone of Canadian reggae.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the first recording together, but we have worked the stage many times before and she has been my friend since we were teenagers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Originally done by The Stylistics in 1974, <strong><em>\u2018You Make me Feel Brand New\u2019<\/em><\/strong> was written and produced by Jamaica-born Thom Bell. Griffiths and Sibbles\u2019 careers took at Studio One during the mid-1960s when rock steady was the rage in Jamaica. She had a number of hit songs written by Bob Andy including <strong><em>\u2018Feel Like Jumping\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>\u2018Mark my Word\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018Really Together\u2019<\/em><\/strong> (with Andy).<\/p>\n<p>She was a member of The I Three, Bob Marley\u2019s harmony group, during the 1970s. Griffiths still maintained a solo career that produced hits such as <strong><em>\u2018Dreamland\u2019 <\/em><\/strong>and \u2018<strong><em>Stepping Outa Babylon\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Sibbles excelled with The Heptones on songs like <strong><em>\u2018Sea of Love\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>\u2018Equal Rights\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>\u2018Fatty Fatty\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>\u2018Only Sixteen\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018Book of Rules\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In the early 1970s, he migrated to Canada. Working out of Toronto, Sibbles recorded a series of well-received singles and albums that endeared him to the country\u2019s growing reggae community.<\/p>\n<p>Sibbles returned to Jamaica permanently in the early 1990s and became a force in the rock steady revival that decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For their first collaboration, reggae legends Leroy Sibbles and Marcia Griffiths put a reggae spin on a soul classic. That song, \u2018You Make me Feel Brand New\u2019, is scheduled for release next week. It is produced by Sibbles, former lead singer of The Heptones and a cornerstone of Canadian reggae. \u201cIt is the first recording [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[240,239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canadian-news","category-international-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713","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=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2715,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions\/2715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}