{"id":4971,"date":"2022-12-09T22:09:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T22:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=4971"},"modified":"2022-12-09T22:09:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T22:09:48","slug":"4971-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=4971","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Eric Donaldson<\/b>\u00a0(born 11 June 1947 in\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Saint Catherine, Jamaica\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Catherine,_Jamaica\">Bog Walk<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Jamaica\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamaica\">Jamaica<\/a>) is a Jamaican\u00a0<a title=\"Reggae\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reggae\">reggae<\/a>\u00a0singer-songwriter. He originated in Saint Catherine,<\/p>\n<p>Born in\u00a0<a class=\"new\" title=\"Kent Village (page does not exist)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Kent_Village&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">Kent Village<\/a>, about 2 miles from Bog Walk, Donaldson first recorded for\u00a0<a title=\"Studio One (record label)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Studio_One_(record_label)\">Studio One<\/a>\u00a0in 1964, although producer\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Clement Dodd\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clement_Dodd\">Clement Dodd<\/a>\u00a0declined to release the material.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Prato_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Alleyne_2-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0In the mid-1960s he formed The West Indians with Leslie Burke and Hector Brooks, and they had a hit with the J.J. Johnson-produced &#8220;Right On Time&#8221; in 1968, going on to record with\u00a0<a title=\"Lee &quot;Scratch&quot; Perry\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lee_%22Scratch%22_Perry\">Lee &#8220;Scratch&#8221; Perry<\/a>\u00a0and subsequently changing their name to the Kilowatts, but without further success.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Prato_1-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Alleyne_2-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Donaldson then pursued a solo career, and submitted &#8220;Cherry Oh Baby&#8221; to the 1971\u00a0<a title=\"Jamaica Independence Festival\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamaica_Independence_Festival#Popular_Song_Competition\">Jamaican Festival Song Competition<\/a>, going on to win the competition and giving him a big Jamaican hit single.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Prato_1-2\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eric_Donaldson#cite_note-Prato-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Donaldson has won the competition six times, in 1971, 1977, 1978, 1984, 1993 and 1997.<sup id=\"cite_ref-3\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0&#8220;Cherry Oh Baby&#8221; has been\u00a0<a title=\"Cover version\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cover_version\">covered<\/a>\u00a0by both\u00a0<a title=\"The Rolling Stones\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Rolling_Stones\">The Rolling Stones<\/a>\u00a0(on their 1976 album,\u00a0<i><a title=\"Black and Blue\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_and_Blue\">Black and Blue<\/a><\/i>) and\u00a0<a title=\"UB40\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UB40\">UB40<\/a>\u00a0(on their 1983 album,\u00a0<i><a title=\"Labour of Love\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Labour_of_Love\">Labour of Love<\/a><\/i>).<sup id=\"cite_ref-Prato_1-3\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0<a title=\"Riddim\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Riddim\">riddim<\/a>\u00a0has remained extremely popular \u2013 over thirty cover versions have been recorded, including an update by Donaldson himself. Two of his festival winners (&#8220;Sweet Jamaica&#8221; (1977) and &#8220;Land of My Birth&#8221; (1978)) were written by Winston Wallace.<sup id=\"cite_ref-4\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0In an online poll held in 2013 by the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission, &#8220;Land of My Birth&#8221; was voted the most popular winner in the contest&#8217;s history.<sup id=\"cite_ref-5\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eric_Donaldson\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Donaldson\u00a0(born 11 June 1947 in\u00a0Bog Walk,\u00a0Jamaica) is a Jamaican\u00a0reggae\u00a0singer-songwriter. He originated in Saint Catherine, Born in\u00a0Kent Village, about 2 miles from Bog Walk, Donaldson first recorded for\u00a0Studio One\u00a0in 1964, although producer\u00a0Clement Dodd\u00a0declined to release the material.\u00a0In the mid-1960s he formed The West Indians with Leslie Burke and Hector Brooks, and they had a hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-4971","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\/4971","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=4971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4974,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4971\/revisions\/4974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}