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.
These Eyes
"These Eyes" is a song by the Canadian rock band The Guess Who. The song was co-written by the group's lead guitarist Randy Bachman and lead singer Burton Cummings and originally included on the band's 1969 album Wheatfield Soul. It was first released as a single (backed by "Lightfoot"), in their native Canada, where its chart success (#7), along with the influence of CKLW-AM Windsor's radio station music director Rosalie Trombley, helped land them a U.S. distribution deal with RCA Records. It was then released in the U.S. in April 1969, and became a breakthrough success for the group, as it would be their first single to reach the top ten on the Billboard Pop Singles chart, peaking at number six, and would eventually be certified gold by the RIAA for sales of over one million copies. While it was actually the 18th single released by the band, it was the first from the quartet of Cummings, Bachman, Jim Kale, and Garry Peterson as produced by Jack Richardson.
Background and writing
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 Natalie Cole
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by The Guess Who
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by Monday Morning
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by Alight
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by Tygers Of Pan Tang
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by India Arie
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by India.Arie
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by Biohazard
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by Camouflage
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by Nat Stuckey
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by Gowan
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by Michael Bolton
These Eyes
by: Natalie ColeWritten by Jackson-Yancy/Butler
Oh, Baby, sssss, oh, it's so good, hm, umm,
Umm, umm, umm, umm, umm, hm, get it, Baby, get it
You've been with me through the hardest times
And you've kept my heart, body, soul and mind together
(You, you, you) It's been us two against the world
It ain't been easy but we sho' made it together
Thanks to (you, you, you) you, you, you
All I wanna say is Baby (Baby) oh my Baby (Baby)
I love you (I love you, hoo, hoo) hoo, hoo
Oh, yeah, Baby (Baby) oh my Baby (Oh my Baby)
I love you, hoo, hoo (I love you, hoo, hoo)
Hoo, yeah, yeah
When my world had fallen to the ground
Your love was there always around
And I love you, and I love you, hoo, I love you, hoo, hoo
Ho, oh---, the world keeps changing in which we live
Sometimes people just don't have the time to give
That very special part of them that keeps our love together
Oh Baby, take my love, I hope you keep this forever
You (I love you) God bless you
(I love you) I love you (I really do)
Oh, hoo (Hey, hey and I love, I love you) I love you (I love you)
Yes I do, oh (I really do) its you, Baby, you, Baby, oh
(Hey, hey, and I love, I love you, I love you)