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Sir Coxone Dodd - RIP
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| ska-t User Info... | OBIT-DODD Kingston, Jamaica, May 5 AP - Legendary music producer Clement ``Sir Coxsone'' Dodd, an early pioneer of reggae credited with launching the career of Bob Marley, died on Tuesday of an apparent heart attack, friends said. He was 72. Dodd was pronounced dead around 4:30pm EST at Kingston's Medical Associates Hospital after experiencing chest pains, said close friend and musicologist Bunny Goodison, who was with Dodd hours before he died. ``We were talking about life and music, he was just sitting in his personal chair at the studio,'' Goodison said. His death comes four days after he attended a ceremony to rename a street after his famous record label and studio, Studio One, in Kingston. Born on January 26, 1932, Clement Seymour Dodd started out in the music business in 1950s, operating a popular ``sound system,'' or portable disco, and releasing records on his own label. His early recordings in the 50s and 60s helped launch the birth of ska, a forerunner to reggae. ``It's a massive loss,'' Goodison said. ``If you remove his entire catalogue form the Jamaican scene, a serious vacuum would be created.'' In 1963, Dodd opened Studio One, the Caribbean island's first black-owned music studio. Later that year, he was introduced to a scruffy singer named Bob Marley, who auditioned for Dodd with his band, the Wailers. Impressed, Dodd signed the group to a five-year contract, launching a musical career that would span three decades and take Marley to the heights of international acclaim. Dodd quickly grew fond of the fatherless Marley, letting him live in a back room at the studio. At Dodd's encouragement, Marley emerged as the frontman of the group, recording the 1964 hit Simmer Down, an appeal for calm among Kingston's idle slum dwellers, known as ``rude boys.'' Besides Marley, Dodd is credited with launching the careers of dozens of reggae legends, including Lee ``Scratch'' Perry, Dennis Brown and Freddie McGregor. An accomplished cricket player, Dodd was nicknamed ``Coxsone'' after a famous player from the 1940s. As a young man, he left Jamaica to cut sugar cane in the American South, where he was exposed to the outdoor R&B parties popular among rural blacks. Later, he returned to Jamaica and bought a PA system, naming it ``Sir Coxsone's Downbeat,'' which became one of the country's best known sound systems. In 1991, Dodd was awarded the Order of Distinction, Jamaica's third highest honour, for his contribution to the island's musical heritage. In 2002, he was honoured with a series of celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of his start in the music industry. Today, samples of Dodd's older rhythms can be heard in American hip hop songs. ``I feel that the effort I put out over the years was well received and well accepted. I am open to keep on producing good music over my lifetime and with the ideas I am putting together, I know they will be successful too,'' he said in a published interview in 2002. Last week, hundreds turned out as the city government honored a beaming Dodd by renaming the street where his studio sits Studio One Boulevard. For the last several years, Dodd split his time between Jamaica and New York City, home to his family and several other music businesses. Funeral arrangements were unavailable. Dodd is survived by a wife and several children. - Wed, 5 May 2004 5:52am | ||
| ENIGMATICA ENTERTAINMENT User Info... | I guess every life runs its course... Sadly... It's interesting that Tommy McCook of the Skatalites died exactly on May 5th back in 1998. Phylis Dillion died a few weeks ago as well. Sad month for ska and reggae lovers that know these individuals all over the world. - Wed, 5 May 2004 7:47am | ||
| Brett User Info... | That's really to bad. I always thought that Coxsone was going to live for a while yet. I wasn't really expecting this - Wed, 5 May 2004 12:39pm | ||
| Ska-T User Info... | hey I'm filling in for the Rockers Show here at Citr with help from dj's the J-Roys All Studio One Coxone Dodd Tribute until 3:00 pm PST listen here: http://www.citr.ca/live.rm http://www.citr.ca playlist noon -1pm PST Part one Bob Marley birth of a legend, let him go, LP skatalites/knig stitt, dancehall 63, why do lovers, LP, charmers, jump jamaica, long walk home, LP, dennis alcapone, forever version, midnight version, LP, maytals, jump jamaica, six and seven books, LP, jackie mittoo, last train to skaville, ska shuffle, LP, mad lads ten to one, 7", heptones , on top, sea of love, LP, alton ellis, best of, land of loving, LP, claredonians, best of , who laughs last, LP Skatalites, celebration time, magic star, LP, theo beckford, studio one story, easy snappin', LP, maytals, treat me bad, never grow old, LP, Peter Tosh, Jumbie Jamboree, Th Toughest, LP, delroy wilson, dancin mood, i want justice, LP, Jackie Opel, Best of..., Push Wood, LP, wailers, ska au go go, hey senorita, LP, Cecil Campbell, Feel like Jumping, Whisper to me, LP, Bob Andy, Songbook, stay in my lonely arms, LP, roland alphonso el pussycat, LP, heptones, ting a ling, fight left, LP, http://www.citr.ca - Sun, 9 May 2004 8:16am | ||
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