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.

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Bank (geography)

In geography a bank generally refers to the land alongside a body of water. Various structures are referred to as banks in different fields of geography.

In limnology, the study of inland waters, a stream bank or river bank is the terrain alongside the bed of a river, creek, or stream. Stream banks are of particular interest in fluvial geography, which studies the processes associated with rivers and streams and the deposits and landforms created by them. The shoreline of ponds, swamps, estuarys, reservoirs, or lakes are also of interest in limnology, and are sometimes referred to as banks. The grade of these banks or shorelines can vary from vertical to a shallow slope.

In freshwater ecology, banks are of interest as the location of riparian habitats. Riparian zones occur along upland and lowland river and stream beds. The ecology around and depending on a marsh, swamp, slough, or estuary, sometimes called a bank, is likewise studied in freshwater ecology.

Banks are also of interest in navigation, where the term can refer either to a barrier island or a submerged plateau. A barrier island is a long narrow island composed of sand and forming a barrier between an island lagoon or sound and the ocean. A submerged plateau is a relatively flat topped elevation of the sea floor at shallow depth (generally less than 200m), typically on the continental shelf or near an island.

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Riverbank

Riverbank or river bank may refer to:

Bank (geography), or stream bank, the bank of a river

Places

Riverbank, California

Riverbank, former name of Bryte, California

Riverbank Academy, a special school in Coventry, England

Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland

Riverbanks Zoo, a zoo in South Carolina

Business

The RiverBank, 1920–2011, a Wisconsin bank offering banking, insurance and investment services

Music

"River Bank" (Jamaican song), a 1964 song by Byron Lee and the Dragonaires (adapted as a 1978 single by Headley Bennett)

"River Bank", a 1975 song by Prince Jazzbo

"Tales from the Riverbank", a 1981 song by The Jam

"The Riverbank", a 1998 song by Paul Weller

"River Bank" (Brad Paisley song), a 2014 single by Brad Paisley

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River Bank (Jamaican song)

"River Bank", also "River bank Coverly" and "River Bank Coberley", is a traditional Jamaican song. The song is an old Jamaican mento standard. It has been adapted both by Reggae musicians, and also by jazz musicians, such as trumpeter Baba Brooks who reworked "River Bank" into "Bank to Bank".

Versions

"River Bank Jump Up", Byron Lee and the Dragonaires, on Kentone Jamaica 1964, released as "River Bank" Parlophone UK 1964

"River Bank", adapted by Headley Bennett, on Roots From The Yard Jamaica 1978

"River Bank", adapted by L. Carter, recorded by Prince Jazzbo, on Wild Flower Jamaica 1975

"River Bank", Randy's All Stars on Musicland, Jamaica 1970

"River Bank Coberley Again" The Four Aces (Jamaican group), Island UK 1965

"Bank to Bank", Baba Brooks

References

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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: