{"id":4160,"date":"2022-08-12T12:49:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T12:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=4160"},"modified":"2022-08-12T12:51:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T12:51:51","slug":"the-sivertones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=4160","title":{"rendered":"The Sivertones"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Silvertones<\/b>\u00a0(who also recorded as\u00a0The Valentines<\/b>,\u00a0The Gold Tones<\/b>,\u00a0The Admirals<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0The Muskyteers<\/b>) are a\u00a0Jamaican<\/a>\u00a0reggae<\/a>\u00a0harmony group formed in 1964, best known for their recordings for\u00a0Lee “Scratch” Perry<\/a>\u00a0in the early 1970s.<\/p>\n

In 1964 three vocalists\u00a0\u2013 Delroy Denton, Keith Coley, and Gilmore Grant\u00a0\u2013 came together to form The Silvertones. In 1965 they had success with the singles “True Confession” and “It\u2019s Real”, both produced by Duke Reid and released on the Dr. Bird Label. The Silvertones also released “Cool Down” by Duke Reid.<\/p>\n

In 1968, The Silvertones released a cover version of\u00a0Wilson Pickett<\/a>\u2019s song “In The Midnight Hour<\/a>“. Other singles included “Old Man River” and “Slow and Easy” on Reid\u2019s Treasure Isle label. They recorded for Sonia Pottinger “Guns Fever” and by 1971 were recording releases such as “Tear Drops Will Fall” for Clancy Eccles. Later, The Silvertones went on to record many songs for Studio One. They also recorded under the name “The Valentines”, examples being “Guns Fever” (also called “Bam Bam Fever”), “Old Man Says” and “Stop the Violence”.<\/p>\n

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The Silvertones\u00a0(who also recorded as\u00a0The Valentines,\u00a0The Gold Tones,\u00a0The Admirals\u00a0and\u00a0The Muskyteers) are a\u00a0Jamaican\u00a0reggae\u00a0harmony group formed in 1964, best known for their recordings for\u00a0Lee “Scratch” Perry\u00a0in the early 1970s. In 1964 three vocalists\u00a0\u2013 Delroy Denton, Keith Coley, and Gilmore Grant\u00a0\u2013 came together to form The Silvertones. In 1965 they had success with the singles “True Confession” and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-4160","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\/4160","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=4160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4161,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions\/4161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}