{"id":5316,"date":"2023-02-03T12:59:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T12:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=5316"},"modified":"2023-02-03T12:59:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T12:59:37","slug":"the-jamaicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=5316","title":{"rendered":"The Jamaicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The Jamaicans<\/b>\u00a0were a\u00a0ska\/rocksteady\u00a0group formed in\u00a0Jamaica\u00a0in 1967, consisting of members\u00a0Tommy Cowan, Norris Weir, Derrick Brown and Martin Williams.<\/p>\n<p>The Jamaicans originally started out in 1964 as the Merricoles, consisting of Derrick Brown and childhood friend Norris Weir, joined later by Martin Williams (deceased), Flats Hylton, and I Kong.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Black_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> Then Tommy Cowan joined the group to make them a six-piece band.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Black_1-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0The group soon changed their name to The Jamaicans, at the behest of Canadian shipping agent Aston McKeachron, to increase the group&#8217;s international appeal, cutting two singles for Duke Reid at Treasure Isle &#8211; &#8220;Pocket Full of Money&#8221; and &#8220;Diana&#8221;.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Black_1-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0Kong and Brown left in 1967<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Jamaicans\">Read More &#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jamaicans\u00a0were a\u00a0ska\/rocksteady\u00a0group formed in\u00a0Jamaica\u00a0in 1967, consisting of members\u00a0Tommy Cowan, Norris Weir, Derrick Brown and Martin Williams. The Jamaicans originally started out in 1964 as the Merricoles, consisting of Derrick Brown and childhood friend Norris Weir, joined later by Martin Williams (deceased), Flats Hylton, and I Kong. Then Tommy Cowan joined the group to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-5316","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\/5316","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=5316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5317,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5316\/revisions\/5317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}