{"id":6370,"date":"2023-06-30T09:38:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T09:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=6370"},"modified":"2023-07-07T14:56:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T14:56:41","slug":"clement-gordon-takes-on-emotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=6370","title":{"rendered":"Clement Gordon Takes on Emotions."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Like\u202fmany youths who went to parties during the 1960s, Clement Gordon listened and danced to songs from Motown Records.\u202f<\/span><b><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u2018I Second That Emotion\u2019\u202f<\/span><\/i><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">by Smokey Robinson and The Miracles was one of his favourites.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Gordon recently covered the 1967 classic, reggae style.\u00a0 An impressive cast of musicians played on the self-produced song. &#8220;I always love Smokey Robinson songs, and that particular song, it&#8217;s nice for the ladies because it sends a message,&#8221; said Gordon.\u00a0 He actually recorded\u202f<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u2018<\/span><\/b><b><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">I Second That Emotion<\/span><\/i><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u2019<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\"> several years ago with Sly and Robbie on drums and bass, Dalton Browne and Paul &#8220;Wrongmove&#8221; Crosdale (piano).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Interestingly, Gordon is a long-time resident of Detroit, Michigan, where Motown was founded, and had a remarkable run of hit songs in the 1960s.\u00a0 In the 1960s, the Kingston-born artiste was also taken by the sounds of Studio One, often likened to Motown because of similarities in approach to recording dance music geared at teenagers.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Gordon was part of the vibrant reggae scene in Toronto, Canada, during the 1970s. At the time, that city was home to top acts like Leroy Sibbles, Johnny Osbourne, and Willi Williams.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">In the past 15 years he has released a number of songs, including the humorous\u202f\u2018<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Granny\u2019<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u202fand a cover of The Isley Brothers\u202f<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u2018<\/span><\/b><b><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">This Old Heart of Mine\u2019<\/span><\/i><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">.<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0 Last year, Gordon released the patriotic\u202f<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u2018<\/span><\/b><b><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Rule the World\u2019<\/span><\/i><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like\u202fmany youths who went to parties during the 1960s, Clement Gordon listened and danced to songs from Motown Records.\u202f\u2018I Second That Emotion\u2019\u202fby Smokey Robinson and The Miracles was one of his favourites.\u00a0 Gordon recently covered the 1967 classic, reggae style.\u00a0 An impressive cast of musicians played on the self-produced song. &#8220;I always love Smokey Robinson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[240,239],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-6370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canadian-news","category-international-news","tag-featured"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6370","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6371,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6370\/revisions\/6371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}