{"id":2845,"date":"2022-02-04T12:45:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T12:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=2845"},"modified":"2022-02-04T12:45:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T12:45:59","slug":"the-melodians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=2845","title":{"rendered":"The Melodians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The Melodians<\/b>\u00a0are a\u00a0<a title=\"Rocksteady\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rocksteady\">rocksteady<\/a>\u00a0band formed in the Greenwich Town area of\u00a0<a title=\"Kingston, Jamaica\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kingston,_Jamaica\">Kingston<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Jamaica\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamaica\">Jamaica<\/a>, in 1963, by Tony Brevett (born 1949,\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Nephew\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nephew\">nephew<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a title=\"The Skatalites\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Skatalites\">The Skatalites<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Bassist\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bassist\">bassist<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Lloyd Brevett\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lloyd_Brevett\">Lloyd Brevett<\/a>), Brent Dowe and Trevor McNaughton.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Gleaner1311_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><a title=\"Renford Cogle\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Renford_Cogle\">Renford Cogle<\/a>\u00a0assisted with\u00a0<a title=\"Songwriter\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Songwriter\">writing<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Arrangement\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arrangement\">arranging<\/a>\u00a0material.<\/p>\n<p>Trevor McNaughton had the idea of putting a group together and contacted the then 14-year-old Tony Brevett, who had already had success in local talent shows.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Gleaner1311_1-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0Brevett recruited his friend Brent Dowe and the group was formed, with Brevett taking on lead vocal duties.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Gleaner1311_1-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0Bramwell Brown and Renford Cogle also had short stints in the group in its early days, and Cogle became one of the group&#8217;s main songwriters.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Gleaner1311_1-3\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Melodians\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Melodians\u00a0are a\u00a0rocksteady\u00a0band formed in the Greenwich Town area of\u00a0Kingston,\u00a0Jamaica, in 1963, by Tony Brevett (born 1949,\u00a0nephew\u00a0of\u00a0The Skatalites\u00a0bassist,\u00a0Lloyd Brevett), Brent Dowe and Trevor McNaughton.Renford Cogle\u00a0assisted with\u00a0writing\u00a0and\u00a0arranging\u00a0material. Trevor McNaughton had the idea of putting a group together and contacted the then 14-year-old Tony Brevett, who had already had success in local talent shows.\u00a0Brevett recruited his friend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-2845","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\/2845","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=2845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2847,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions\/2847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}