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The Slickers were a Jamaican rocksteady and reggae group in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Slickers centred on Derrick Crooks, one of the founding members of The Pioneers along with his brother Sydney. In the mid-1960s, The Slickers consisted of the Crooks brothers and Winston Bailey. Derrick was the only constant member, with Abraham Green joining the Crooks brothers at the time "Johnny Too Bad" was recorded. The Slickers have often been wrongly assumed to simply be an alias for The Pioneers due to their similar vocal stylings. The Slickers toured the United Kingdom and United States on the back of the success of "Johnny Too Bad", and continued until 1979, when they recorded the Breakthrough album, before splitting up.
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| dbo:abstract | The Slickers were a Jamaican rocksteady and reggae group in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Slickers centred on Derrick Crooks, one of the founding members of The Pioneers along with his brother Sydney. In the mid-1960s, The Slickers consisted of the Crooks brothers and Winston Bailey. Derrick was the only constant member, with Abraham Green joining the Crooks brothers at the time "Johnny Too Bad" was recorded. The Slickers have often been wrongly assumed to simply be an alias for The Pioneers due to their similar vocal stylings. The Slickers toured the United Kingdom and United States on the back of the success of "Johnny Too Bad", and continued until 1979, when they recorded the Breakthrough album, before splitting up. The song "Johnny Too Bad" was written by Trevor "Batman" Wilson, Winston Bailey, Roy Beckford and Derrick Crooks, all at some time members of The Slickers. The song featured on the soundtrack for the 1972 Jimmy Cliff film, The Harder They Come, and later covered by the British reggae group UB40, the American reggae punk band Sublime, American power pop band The Silencers (1980, Columbia Records), and blues artist Taj Mahal. John Martyn covered it with additional lyrics on his 1980 album Grace and Danger. The song was also part of bluegrass artist Peter Rowan's live repertoire during much of the mid-1980s. (en) I The Slickers furono un gruppo giamaicano di musica reggae attivo tra la fine degli anni sessanta e per tutti gli anni settanta. Il gruppo è noto per la canzone Johnny Too Bad, canzone che fece parte della colonna sonora del film Più duro è, più forte cade (The Harder They Come) e che fu cantata con testi aggiuntivi da John Martyn sul suo album e di cui ne fecero una cover il gruppo reggae inglese UB40. Il gruppo ruotava intorno a , già tra i membri fondatori dei The Pioneers insieme a suo fratello Sydney. Verso la metà degli anni 1960, The Slickers erano composti dei fratelli Crooks e da . Derrick era l'unico membro costante con Abraham Green che si unisce ai fratelli Crooks al momento di realizzare Johnny Too Bad. Gli Slickers sono stati spesso erroneamente visti come un semplice alias dei The Pioneers a causa dei loro stili vocali molto simili. A seguito del successo di Johnny Too Bad The Slickers fecero un tour nel Regno Unito e negli Stati Uniti, tour che durò fino al 1979, quando registrarono l'album Breakthrough, prima dello scioglimento. (it) The Slickers var en jamaicansk rocksteady- och reggaegrupp som var verksam från slutet av 1960-talet fram till 1978. De är mest kända för låten "" (1970), som är något av en reggaeklassiker som artister från hela världen gjort coverversioner av: UB40, Taj Mahal, Jimmy Cliff, Bunny Wailer, Dennis Brown, John Martyn, Georgie Fame, Steve Earle, , , , The Lords of the New Church, , och svenska Dag Vag ("Johnny Du E Rå") plus hundratals mindre eller fullständigt okända band. The Slickers förstaversion av låten fanns med på soundtracket till Jamaicas första långfilm The Harder They Come (1972) med reggaelegenden Jimmy Cliff i huvudrollen. Gruppen bildades av från den avsevärt mer kända gruppen The Pioneers, hans bror Sydney Crooks och Winston Bailey runt 1965. Andra bandmedlemmar var bl.a. Roy Beckford, George Dekker, men The Slickers tycks ha varit Derrick Crooks eget projekt, och olika artister plockades in vid olika tillfällen från bl.a. The Pioneers och . Det var under 1960- och 1970-talen vanligt att sångare och musiker lurades på upphovsrätt och royalties av skivbolagen och deras producenter, och detta ledde i sin tur till att artisterna bytte namn för att komma undan kontraktsklausuler. The Slickers första singel, "Nana" spelades egentligen in av The Pioneers under namnet "Johnny Melody & The Slickers", och låter i högsta grad som en Pioneers-låt En ung sångare vid namn Abraham Green (som senare konverterade till rastafari och kallade sig Ras Abraham) anses vara förstesångare vid inspelningen av "Johnny Too Bad" 1971. Producent var , och låten skrevs av Derrick Crooks, Roy Beckford, Winston Bailey samt Delroy Wilson eller dennes bror Trevor Wilson. Det finns även en version av "Johnny Too Bad" med samma artister som är producerad av Lee "Scratch" Perry. Det LP-album som släpptes av The Slickers 1976 innehöll nästan bara tolkningar av andra artisters låtar: "Get Up Stand Up", "I Shot The Sheriff", "Ob La Di Ob La Da", "Many Rivers To Cross", "Swing High Swing Low", "Hang On Snoopy", m.fl. En fullständig biografi för gruppen Slickers är svår att ge på grund av de många olika konstellationerna av bandet som turnerade i Europa och USA under 1970-talet. De släppte enstaka singlar och två LP-skivor, och efter 1978 förefaller det som om bandet har avvecklats. (sv) |
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| rdfs:comment | The Slickers were a Jamaican rocksteady and reggae group in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Slickers centred on Derrick Crooks, one of the founding members of The Pioneers along with his brother Sydney. In the mid-1960s, The Slickers consisted of the Crooks brothers and Winston Bailey. Derrick was the only constant member, with Abraham Green joining the Crooks brothers at the time "Johnny Too Bad" was recorded. The Slickers have often been wrongly assumed to simply be an alias for The Pioneers due to their similar vocal stylings. The Slickers toured the United Kingdom and United States on the back of the success of "Johnny Too Bad", and continued until 1979, when they recorded the Breakthrough album, before splitting up. (en) I The Slickers furono un gruppo giamaicano di musica reggae attivo tra la fine degli anni sessanta e per tutti gli anni settanta. Il gruppo è noto per la canzone Johnny Too Bad, canzone che fece parte della colonna sonora del film Più duro è, più forte cade (The Harder They Come) e che fu cantata con testi aggiuntivi da John Martyn sul suo album e di cui ne fecero una cover il gruppo reggae inglese UB40. Il gruppo ruotava intorno a , già tra i membri fondatori dei The Pioneers insieme a suo fratello Sydney. (it) The Slickers var en jamaicansk rocksteady- och reggaegrupp som var verksam från slutet av 1960-talet fram till 1978. De är mest kända för låten "" (1970), som är något av en reggaeklassiker som artister från hela världen gjort coverversioner av: UB40, Taj Mahal, Jimmy Cliff, Bunny Wailer, Dennis Brown, John Martyn, Georgie Fame, Steve Earle, , , , The Lords of the New Church, , och svenska Dag Vag ("Johnny Du E Rå") plus hundratals mindre eller fullständigt okända band. The Slickers förstaversion av låten fanns med på soundtracket till Jamaicas första långfilm The Harder They Come (1972) med reggaelegenden Jimmy Cliff i huvudrollen. (sv) |
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