King Stitt
Winston Sparkes (17 September 1940 – 31 January 2012), better known as King Stitt, was a Jamaican pioneer DJ.
Biography
He earned the nickname as a boy because of his stuttering and decided to use it as his stage name. Stitt began deejaying on Clement Dodd's Sir Coxsone's Downbeat Sound System in 1956.
Count Machuki, the original Jamaican deejay, noticed him for his dancing and offered him to try his hand on the mic. Stitt soon built his own deejay set, occasionally replacing him and eventually becoming one of the most popular deejays on the island's dances. He became King Stitt when he was crowned "king of the deejays" in 1963, in the heyday of ska.
Following the folding of Sir Coxsone's Downbeat's sound system around 1968 (as Coxsone preferred to concentrate on recordings), Stitt found himself working as a mason in Ocho Rios. He had been deejaying at the mic for over ten years when he was first recorded over brand new reggae rhythms in 1969, creating some of the first deejay records ever.
Pied Piper of Hamelin
The Pied Piper of Hamelin (German: Rattenfänger von Hameln also known as the Pan Piper, the Rat-Catcher of Hamelin) is the subject of a legend from the town of Hamelin (Hameln), Lower Saxony, Germany, in the Middle Ages. The earliest references describe a piper, dressed in multicolored ("pied") clothing, who was a rat-catcher hired by the town to lure rats away with his magic pipe. When the citizens refuse to pay for this service, he retaliates by using his instrument's magic power on their children, leading them away as he had the rats. This version of the story spread as folklore and has appeared in the writings of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the Brothers Grimm, and Robert Browning, among others.
There are many contradicting theories about the Pied Piper. Some have been proposed suggesting he was a symbol of hope to the people of Hamelin, which had been attacked by plague; he moved all the rats out from the town of Hamelin, thus saving the people from the epidemic disease.
Pied Piper (comics)
Pied Piper (also known as Piper) is a fictional supervillain in the DC Universe. He is a member of the Rogues. He first appeared in the pages of The Flash #106 (May 1959).
Fictional character biography
Hartley Rathaway (alias Thomas Peterson) was born deaf, received assistive technology in the form of hearing implants thanks to research funded by his wealthy father (later it was revealed that the implants were made by Dr. Will Magnus). He became obsessed with sound, and pursued little else in life; experimenting with sonic technology, Rathaway eventually invented a technique of hypnotism through music, and a way to cause deadly vibrations. Growing bored of his lifestyle, he turned to crime as the Pied Piper and frequently clashed with Barry Allen, the second Flash.
Reform
After Allen's death during Crisis on Infinite Earths, Hartley retired from crime to become a socialist champion of the poor and underprivileged. He also came out as one of DC’s first openly gay characters, and joked that this was ironic, as he was one of the few villains to have ever "gone straight". He first realized he was gay when he became attracted to Rod Lauren when watching The Crawling Hand. Rathaway remained a good friend of the Flash, Wally West, and his wife Linda, whom he helps with scientific problems.
Pied Piper (The Pillows album)
PIED PIPER is the fifteenth studio album by the pillows, released on June 25, 2008. It includes the singles "Ladybird Girl", "Tokyo Bambi", and "New Animal" as well as the b-side "Across the Metropolis".
Tracks
Chart performance
Podcasts:
King Stitt
ALBUMS
- Foundation Come Again released: 2013
- Reggae Golden Jubilee: Origins of Jamaican Music - 50th Anniversary released: 2012
- Soundsystem: The Story of Jamaican Music released: 2012
- Trojan Presents: Original Reggae - 40 Original Tighten Up Hits released: 2011
- Sound System International Dub LP released: 2009
- Ska Mania released: 2009
- Tighten Up Volume 2 (Deluxe Edition) released: 2009
- Essential Ska released: 2007
- Trojan Document released: 2006
- The Big Gundown - Reggae Inspired By Spaghetti Westerns released: 2004
- Don Letts Presents... the Mighty Trojan Sound released: 2003
- Trojan Ganja Reggae Box Set released: 2003
- Trojan Christmas Reggae Box Set released: 2003
- The Trojan Story: The Label That Defined Reggae released: 2003
- Mega Ragga, Volume 2 released: 2002
- Tighten Up: Trojan Reggae Classics 1968-74 released: 2002
- Blunted in the Bomb Shelter released: 2002
- Trojan Mod Reggae Box Set released: 2002
- 20 Reggae Classics: Volume 2 released: 2001
- Classic Reggae: The Deejays: The Best of the Original 1970s Reggae DJs released: 2000
- Trojan Producer Series Box Set released: 1999
- Trojan D.J. Box Set released: 1998
- Clancy Eccles and Friends - Fatty Fatty (1967-1970) released: 1998
- Champion D.J.'s From Studio One released: 1996
- History of Trojan Records 1968-1971 released: 1995
- Skinhead Jamboree released: 1995
- Monkey Business: Killer Skinhead Reggae released: 1995
- Veteran DJ Jamboree released: 1991
- Clancy Eccles Presents His Reggae Revue released: 1990
- Lee Van Cleef / Dance Beat released: 1969
- Studio One DJ's 2 released:
Reggae Golden Jubilee: Origins of Jamaican Music - 50th Anniversary
Released 2012- Wear You to the Ball
- Cherry Oh! Baby
- 54-46 Was My Number
- Them a fe Get a Beatin'
- Many Rivers to Cross
- The Sun Shines for Me
- Marcus Garvey
- Fade Away
- Lady With the Starlight
- Right Time
- Police and Thieves
- Ram Goat Liver
- We de People/ The Power and the Glory
- Two Sevens Clash
- It's Alright
- Forward Ever
- My Number One
- Money in My Pocket
- Kaya
- Rub a Dub Style
- Uptown Top Ranking
- Land of My Birth
- Silly Games
- Someone Loves You Honey
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
- Arleen
Ska Mania
Released 2009- Too Much Too Young
- Monkey Man
- Train to Skaville
- Red Red Wine
- One Step Beyond
- Miss Jamaica
- The Liquidator
- Funky Kingston
- Carry Go Bring Come
- Pressure Drop
- John Jones
- Three Minute Hero
- Skinhead Moonstomp
- Ali Baba
- Singer Man
- Israelites
- Gangsters (live)
- No Raise No Praise
- My Boy Lollipop
- Whine and Grine
- Tears of a Clown
- Blam Blam Fever
- Double Barrel
- Everybody (Time Hard) (live)
- Long Shot Kick De Bucket
- Fattie Fattie
- Ire Feelings (Leggo Skanga)
Tighten Up Volume 2 (Deluxe Edition)
Released 2009- Long Shot Kick De Bucket
- John Jones
- Fire Corner
- Wreck a Buddy
- Reggae in Your Jeggae
- Fattie Fattie
- Return of Django
- Sufferer
- Moonlight Lover
- Come Into My Parlour
- Them a Laugh and a Kiki
- Live Injection
- Jumping the Gun
- A Place Called Happiness
- John Public (Tom Hark)
- Push It In
- Reggae Shuffle
- Tribute to Drumbago (a.k.a. Last Call)
- Dollar in the Teeth
- Kiss a Finger
- Love You True
- Dry Up Your Tears
- The Hippy's Are Here
- Everything for Fun
Essential Ska
Released 2007- Train to Skaville
- I'm in the Mood for Ska
- The Preacher
- Rough and Tough
- Street Corner
- River Bank
- Honour Your Mother and Father
- Latin Goes Ska
- Frankenstein Ska
- Doctor Zhivago
- Napoleon Solo
- Vitamin A
- Storm Warning
- Blazing Fire
- Out of Space
- Little Did You Know
- Copasetic
- What a Good Woodman (A.K.A. the Woodman)
- Train to Ska-thedral
Trojan Document
Released 2006- Hey Bartender
- Blazing Fire
- Unknown Instrumental
- Carry Go Bring Come
- Don D Lion
- Fire Corner
- Get Up Edina
- Tighten Up
- A Live Injection
- Ba Ba Boom
- Don't Stay Away
- Take It Easy
- Rock Steady
- Better Must Come
- John Public
- Public Eyes (dub)
- Ali Baba
- I Trim the Barber
- These Eyes
- Tom Drunk
- True True
- Blood Dunza
- Blood Dunza (dub)
- Channel One Feel It
- Stalag 17
- Nigrea African Dub
- Cuss Cuss
- Soul Scorcher
- Inna Dance Hall Style
- Rewind
- Dreadlocks Time
The Big Gundown - Reggae Inspired By Spaghetti Westerns
Released 2004- Django Shoots First
- Dollar A Head
- Dollar In The Teeth
- Return Of Django
- A Fistful Of Dollars
- Lee Van Cleef
- Clint Eastwood
- The Undertaker
- The Overtaker
- Undertaker's Burial
- For A Few Dollars More
- Death Rides A Horse
- Death Rides A Horse
- Franco Nero
- Kill Them All
- Eight For Eight
- The Bad
- Nevada Joe
- Stranger In Town
- Savage Colt
- The Law
- A Taste Of Killing
- Return Of The Ugly
- Dollars & Bands
- Vengeance
- They Call Me Trinity
Don Letts Presents... the Mighty Trojan Sound
Released 2003- It's a Jam in the Streets
- Foreman V Frazier
- Queen of the World
- Buck and the Preacher
- Here I Am Baby
- Boom Shacka Laka
- Man Next Door
- 54 46 Was My Number
- None Shall Escape the Judgement
- President Mash Up the Resident
- Stealin', Stealin'
- Clean Race
- Mistry Babylon
- Rockers No Crackers
- Hurt So Good
- Burn Babylon
- Stick by Me
- Fever
- Cuss Cuss
- Wear You to the Ball
- Mr. Know It All
- Just Say Who
- The Time Has Come
Trojan Ganja Reggae Box Set
Released 2003- Better Calley (a.k.a. Better Collie)
- Calley (version)
- Bring the Couchie Come
- Couchie (dub)
- Ganja
- Collie Dread
- Ashanti Ganja (dub)
- Free the Weed
- Free the Weed (dub)
- Bush Weed Corntrash
- Callying Butt
- Chalice to Chalice
- A Hundred Pounds of Collie
- I Love Marijuana
- Jamaican Colley (version)
- Smoke Marijuana
- Marijuana in My Soul
Trojan Christmas Reggae Box Set
Released 2003- Wish You a Merry Christmas / Ahamaric Temple
- Jingle Bells
- Santa Claus Is Ska-ing to Town
- Santa Claus Never Comes to the Ghetto
- Blue Christmas
- Ding Dong Bell
- It's Christmas Time Again
- All I Want for Ismas
- Silent Night
- I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
- Yellowman Rock (Jungle Bell Rock)
- White Christmas
- Peace and Love (Little Drummer Boy)
- Last Christmas
- The Twelve Days of Christmas
- Merry Christmas, Happy New Year (feat. Sandra Robinson)
The Trojan Story: The Label That Defined Reggae
Released 2003- More Axe
- Double Barrel
- Blood and Fire
- Trenchtown Rock
- Beat Down Babylon
- Public Enemy No. 1
- Loving You
- Life
- Big Six
- Cow Town Skank
- Cool Rasta
- S.90 Skank
- Everything I Own
- Help Me Make It Through the Night
- Why Seek More
- Casanova Dub
- Enter Into His Gates With Praise
- Heavy Manners
- Nothing Gained (From Loving You)
- The People Got to Know
- Poor Man Style
- History
Tighten Up: Trojan Reggae Classics 1968-74
Released 2002- Tighten Up
- Kansas City
- Spanish Harlem
- A Place in the Sun
- Win Your Love for Me
- Fat Man
- Angel of the Morning
- Watch This Sound
- Sufferer
- Fattie Fattie
- John Jones
- Moonlight Lover
- Long Shot Kick de Bucket
- Fire Corner
- Return of Django
- Wreck a Buddy
- Come Into My Parlour
- Them a Laugh and a Kiki
- Monkey Man
- Shocks of Mighty
- Freedom Street
- Man From Carolina
- Singer Man
- Herbsman Shuffle
- Barbwire
- Stay a Little Bit Longer
Blunted in the Bomb Shelter
Released 2002- A Place in the Sun / Fire Corner / Black Man Time
- Flat Foot Hustlin'
- Jingle Lion
- Walk Rastafari Way
- Destruction Sound Battle
- Public Jestering
- A Better Version
- Bad Da
- Black Magic Woman
- Throne of Blood
- Lottery Spin
- Star Trek
- Want Me Cock
- Free Man
- Man in the Street
- Don't Deal With Folly
- I Love Marijuana
- Stop the Dubbing
- Free From Chains
- Sensimelia
- Mission Impossible
- Golden Chickens
- Herb Vendor
- Babylon Deh Pon Fire
- Shaft
- Sipreano
- Girl of My Dreams
- Rhythm Pleasure
- Cocaine
- Love Life
- (Only Rasta Know the) Voice of Jah
- Teacher, Teacher (Teach the Children)
- DJ's Choice
- King Tubby's Special
- Reggae Makossa
- A Rougher Version
- Cool Down Version
- Space Flight
- On the Move
- Guns of Navarone
- Popcorn
- None Shall Escape the Judgement
- Freedom Style
- Starvation
- African People
20 Reggae Classics: Volume 2
Released 2001- 54-46 Was My Number
- Phoenix City
- A Love I Can Feel
- Java
- Reggae In Your Jeggae
- Pop A Top
- Double Barrel
- Wear You To The Ball
- Herbsman Shuffle
- Small Axe/Battle Axe
- Israelites
- The Law
- Fat Man
- So Easy
- The Whip
- Pomps and Pride
- The further you look
- Return Of Django
- Soul Shakedown Party
- Fire Corner/Next Corner
Classic Reggae: The Deejays: The Best of the Original 1970s Reggae DJs
Released 2000- Wake the Town
- Black Man's Time
- Jungle of Crime a.k.a. Big Bad Boy Version
- Dance Beat
- Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
- Draw Your Brakes
- The Wormer
- Creation Version
- I've Got to Get Away
- The Great Wuga Wuga
- I'm Alright
- Melinda
- The Hudson Affair
- Deck of Cards
- Sounds of Babylon
- Mid-East Rock
- Moving (version)
- Shades of Hudson
- Fire Bunn
- Stick Together
Clancy Eccles and Friends - Fatty Fatty (1967-1970)
Released 1998- Fatty Fatty
- Holly Holy
- Phantom
- Say What You're Saying
- Please Stay
- Foolish Fool
- Mr. Midnight
- Simple Simon
- C.N. Express
- Mademoiselle
- No Good Girl
- Herbsman
- Auntie Lulu
- Don't Look Back
- My Lonely Days Alone
- John Public
- Old Man Say
- Easy Snappin'
- Soul Power
- Bag A Boo
- Dulcemania
- Here Comes the Night
- Promises
- I Don't Care
- Rub It Down
- Rathid
History of Trojan Records 1968-1971
Released 1995- Liquidator
- Everybody Loves a Winner
- Pickney Girl
- Barbwire
- Kaya
- I Can't Hide
- Skinhead Girl
- You Can Get It If You Really Want
- A Little Love
- Young Gifted & Black
- Birth Control
- African Herbsman
- Ride Your Donkey
- Copy Your Donkey
- Double Barrel
- Pop A Top
- Musical Fever
- Black Pearl
- My Sweet Lord
- Crying Every Night
- Tom Drunk
- Singer Man
- My Woman's Love
- Love Of The Common People
- Boom Shacka Lacka
- Niyah man
- Pied Piper
- The Warrior
- Give And Take
- Moon River
Skinhead Jamboree
Released 1995- Skinhead Train
- Trouble in the Town
- Skinhead Girl
- Hard Road to Travel
- 54-46 Was My Number
- Reggae Fever
- Skinheads Don't Fear
- Ease Me Up Officer
- John Jones
- Skinhead Moonstomp
- Return of Django
- Skinhead Jamboree
- Fire Corner
- Pressure Drop
- Skinhead Revolt
- Longshot Kick de Bucket
- But Officer
- Skinhead Speaks His Mind
- Double Barrel
- Night Train
- These Boots Are Made for Walking
- Liquidator
- Red Red Wine
- Skinheads a Bash Them
- Hippopotamus
- Skinhead a Message to You
Monkey Business: Killer Skinhead Reggae
Released 1995- Tighten Up
- Fatty Fatty
- 54-46 Was My Number
- 007 Shanty Town
- Liquidator
- Fire Corner
- Double Barrel
- Birth Control
- Herbsman
- Elizabethean Reggae
- Return of Django
- Monkey Spanner
- Young, Gifted & Black!
- Longshot Kick de Bucket
- Monkey Man
- Dollar in da Teeth
- Barbwire
- Shocks of Mighty
- They Them Laugh and a Kiki
- Cherry Oh Baby
Born: 1939-09-17
Died: 2012-01-31
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by Kathy Mar
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Pied Piper
by: Kathy MarChorus: Insidiously they stand
In rows of color and light
Incredibly they demand
And get our precious quarters
And all the while, addicting us,
We hardly even fight
As they march us to our bankruptcy
Like lambs unto the slaughter
It all began with Pong and we should have stopped it then
These crazy games were never meant for mortal women and men
The harder that we try and the longer that we play
The lowe goes the wherewithal to live from day to day
In every city and town and each suburban mall
The video game arcade puts out it's sweet seductive call
And all the kids around and droves of adult bands
Come marching to their pipers call with money in their hands
It's aliens I'm sure or else a Commie plot
To clean us out and wear us down and turn our brains to rot
I fight it more than most 'cause I know I never win