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Listen the History of Jamaican Music:
The Tennors
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The
Tennors...
The Tennors were a vocal group at the forefront of changing times
and styles. As Ska started to lose it's influence with younger people,
the horns and bop influenced solos began to move to the background.
Vocals gained a new prominence. This very status was key in the
'new' music's ability to talk to the ghetto kids of the era. To
have their existence and identity confirmed by the lyrics sung by
singers predominantely their own age and, generally, from the same
West Kingston neighbourhoods was paramount. The new wave of vovalists
and harmony groups included the Gaylads, Clarendonians, Ethiopians,
Wailers, Melodians, Techniques, Desmond Dekker and the Aces, Alton
Ellis and the Flames and...the Tennors. Clive Murphy and Alvin 'Cheng
Cheng' started as a duo, singing Ska tunes along with the legendary
Skatalites, amoung others. By 1965, with Alvin on the move, Clive
teamed up with Maurice 'Prof' Johnson and the Tennor Twins moved
forward. In 1967, with Ska but a memory and Rock Steady all the
'rage', Norman Davis was invited to join in and these 3 men became
the original Tennors. Their first record, a 'Studio One' production,
was Jamaica's biggest hit of the year...'Pressure and Slide'. Unfortunately
'Prof' passed away and Clive subsequently invited Milton Wilson
to join the group. 'Give Me Bread, Gee Whiz, Ride You Donkey, and
Cleopatra' were some of the Tennor's biggest successes at that time.
When Norman Davis left to go-it solo, enter Ronnie Davis...and the
hits just kept on coming...'The Stage, Another Scorcher, Weather
Report', and the 1973 'Festival' winner 'Hopeful Village'. Listen
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