{"id":5199,"date":"2023-01-13T12:18:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T12:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=5199"},"modified":"2023-01-13T12:18:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T12:18:40","slug":"gg-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=5199","title":{"rendered":"GG RECORDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Alvin &#8216;GG&#8217; Ranglin<\/b>\u00a0(born 1942, Eden,\u00a0<a title=\"Clarendon Parish, Jamaica\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clarendon_Parish,_Jamaica\">Clarendon Parish, Jamaica<\/a>)<sup id=\"cite_ref-GreeneRanglin_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0is a Jamaican\u00a0<a title=\"Reggae\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reggae\">reggae<\/a>\u00a0singer, record producer and record label owner.<\/p>\n<p>Ranglin started to sing in public in his teens with an\u00a0<a title=\"Adventism\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adventism\">Adventist<\/a>\u00a0Church background.<sup id=\"cite_ref-GreeneRanglin_1-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0As a radio and television technician involved in the\u00a0<a title=\"Jukebox\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jukebox\">jukebox<\/a>\u00a0industry, he soon acquired his own\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Jamaican sound system\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamaican_sound_system\">sound system<\/a>\u00a0he named &#8220;GG&#8221;.<sup id=\"cite_ref-GreeneRanglin_1-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0By the mid-1960s, he opened his own TV repair shop in\u00a0<a title=\"May Pen\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/May_Pen\">May Pen<\/a>\u00a0and started to produce\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Gramophone record\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gramophone_record\">records<\/a>\u00a0with artists such as Trevor Brown; and as a singer with\u00a0<a class=\"new\" title=\"Vernon Buckley (page does not exist)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Vernon_Buckley&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">Vernon Buckley<\/a>\u00a0(later of\u00a0<a title=\"The Maytones\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Maytones\">The Maytones<\/a>) as &#8220;Vern &amp; Alvin&#8221; and with Lloyd Flowers under the name of &#8220;Flowers &amp; Alvin&#8221;.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Thompson436_2-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0He soon developed his business by buying jukeboxes and opening his first record shop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alvin_Ranglin\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alvin &#8216;GG&#8217; Ranglin\u00a0(born 1942, Eden,\u00a0Clarendon Parish, Jamaica)\u00a0is a Jamaican\u00a0reggae\u00a0singer, record producer and record label owner. Ranglin started to sing in public in his teens with an\u00a0Adventist\u00a0Church background.\u00a0As a radio and television technician involved in the\u00a0jukebox\u00a0industry, he soon acquired his own\u00a0sound system\u00a0he named &#8220;GG&#8221;.\u00a0By the mid-1960s, he opened his own TV repair shop in\u00a0May Pen\u00a0and started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-5199","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\/5199","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=5199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5200,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199\/revisions\/5200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}