• The Melodians are a rocksteady band formed in the Greenwich Town area of Kingston, Jamaica, in 1963, by Tony Brevett (born 1949, nephew of The Skatalites...
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  • The Georgia Melodians were an early jazz band that was active in the 1920s and recorded for Edison. They were from Savannah, Georgia and the joint leaders...
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  • of the Jamaican reggae group The Melodians in 1970. The lyrics are adapted from the texts of Psalms 19 and 137 in the Hebrew Bible. The Melodians' original...
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  • music journalist Ian Meldrum with Michael Gudinski and Amanda Pelman. The name Melodian is a combination of 'melody' and Meldrum and Ian. In July 1987, Australian...
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    released in 1975. The first commercially available sampling synthesizer was the Computer Music Melodian by Harry Mendell (1976), while the first polyphonic...
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  • "Melodians in the Spotlight". London Mission Newsletter. 72: 28–29. "Melodians Charity Trustees". 12 April 2016. "Melodians Charity Date". "Melodians Henry...
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    Blue Amberol Records was the trademark for a type of cylinder recording manufactured by the Edison Records company in the U.S. from 1912 to 1929. Made...
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    the early 1990s. Laurel Aitken Desmond Dekker Judge Dread The Ethiopians Tommy McCook Derrick Morgan The Pioneers Symarip The Upsetters The Melodians...
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  • these artists include the Melodians, the Slickers, DJ Scotty, and seminal early reggae stars Desmond Dekker and Toots and the Maytals. Two songs are...
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    called a Computer Music Melodian. It was also his first digital recording, and one of the earliest popular albums to use the technology, which Wonder...
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  • Babylon" – The Melodians "Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring)" – New York Philharmonic "Rang Tang Ding Dong (I Am A Japanese Sandman)" – The Cellos...
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    Zion (category Articles needing the year an event occurred from January 2020)
    Lion!"), The Melodians song "Rivers of Babylon" (based on Psalm 137, where the captivity of Babylon is contrasted with the freedom in Zion), the Bad Brains...
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  • originally performed by The Ziggens) "Boss D.J." – 3:05 "Garden Grove" – 1:58 "Rivers of Babylon" – 2:39 (originally performed by The Melodians) "Little District"...
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  • Tommy McCook Freddie McKay The Melodians Jackie Mittoo Derrick Morgan The Paragons Ken Parker Dawn Penn Dwight Pinkney The Pioneers Prince Buster Ernest...
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  • Toots & the Maytals, The Melodians, Wayne Smith, Tenor Saw, Frankie Paul, The Wailing Souls, Barrington Levy, Half Pint and Yellowman. The band additionally...
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  • 1969. The first commercially available sampling synthesizer was the Computer Music Melodian by Harry Mendell (1976). First released in 1977–1978, the Synclavier...
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    critiques. Songs like The Wailers' "African Herbsman" and Peter Tosh's "Legalize It" referenced cannabis use, while tracks like The Melodians' "Rivers of Babylon"...
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    Peter Andre (category Singers from the London Borough of Harrow)
    achieved success in the mid-1990s as a singer, topping the UK Singles Chart with "Flava" and "I Feel You" in 1996. After featuring in the third series of...
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  • Indio appeared in August on Melodian, which reached the top 40 on the ARIA Albums Chart. McFarlane observed that it showed the group's "transition from naive...
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    in the original version of the reggae song Rivers of Babylon by The Melodians but all mention of him was removed from the more popular version by Boney...
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    version of the Melodians' adaption of the Psalm with bassist Robbie Shakespeare on her Theology (album) The psalm was set, as On the Willows, in the Stephen...
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  • including the first use of a digital sampling synthesizer, the Computer Music Melodian, used in most tracks of this album. Journey is an early digital recording...
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  • Jimmy Cliff, composed by Jimmy Cliff "Rivers of Babylon" performed by The Melodians, composed by B. Dowe "Sitting Here in Limbo" performed by Jimmy Cliff...
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  • Other People Original by The Cookies The Hurt's All Gone Original by Irma Thomas It's My Delight Original by The Melodians On a Monday Original by Lead...
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  • Tommy McCook The Melodians Johnny "Dizzy" Moore Derrick Morgan Eric "Monty" Morris Jackie Opel The Paragons Lee "Scratch" Perry Lord Tanamo The Pioneers Ernest...
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    The group is scheduled for a farewell tour in Australia in June and July, 2024. In 1978, "Rivers of Babylon", a cover of a track by The Melodians with...
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  • any of the special letters used in Finnish only for foreign words (b, c, f, q, š, w, x, z, ž, å). Albert osti fagotin ja töräytti puhkuvan melodian. ("Albert...
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  • Road Map" – The Four Internes (1953) "Elijah Rock" – Ollabelle with Amy Helm (2004) "The Rivers Of Babylon" – The Melodians (1972) "John The Revelator"...
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  • and The Wailers (The Best of the Wailers) and enjoyed several successful hits with The Pioneers' "Long Shot Kick The Bucket", and The Melodians' "Rivers...
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  • Matumbi Mavado The Maytals The Maytones Tommy McCook Freddie McGregor Freddie McKay Bitty McLean Enos McLeod The Meditations The Melodians Mellow Mood Merger...
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