Johnny Nash - The Best Of

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 48:22

Size: 110.8 MB

Styles: Reggae

Year: 1996

Art: Front

[2:45] 1. I Can See Clearly Now

[2:43] 2. Dream Lover

[2:42] 3. Hold Me Tight

[2:44] 4. There Are More Questions Than Answers

[2:54] 5. Let's Be Friends

[3:23] 6. Cupid

[3:55] 7. Reggae's On Broadway

[3:21] 8. Let's Move And Groove Together

[3:12] 9. Guava Jelly

[3:02] 10. Wonderful World

[3:01] 11. Stir It Up

[2:51] 12. Ooh, What A Feeling

[2:40] 13. Loving You

[3:16] 14. Tears On My Pillow (I Can't Take It)

[2:46] 15. All I Have To Do Is Dream

[3:00] 16. Halfway To Paradise

Born John Lester Nash, Jr. in Houston, Texas, he began as a pop singer in the 1950s. He released four albums for ABC-Paramount, with his self named debut in 1958. Around 20 singles were released between 1958 & 1964 on a variety of labels such as Groove, Chess, Argo and Warners. He also enjoyed success as an actor early in his career appearing in the screen version of playwright Louis S. Peterson's Take a Giant Step. Nash won a Silver Sail Award for his performance from the Locarno International Film Festival.

Besides "I Can See Clearly Now," Nash recorded several hits in Jamaica, where he travelled in early 1968, as his girlfriend had family links with local TV and radio host and novel writer Neville Willoughby. Nash planned to try breaking the local rocksteady sound in the United States. Willoughby introduced him to a local struggling vocal group, Bob Marley & The Wailing Wailers, Members Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, Peter Tosh and Rita Marley introduced him to the local scene.[2] Nash signed all four to an exclusive recording contract with his JAD label and also an exclusive publishing contract with Cayman music. An advance was paid in the form of a weekly wage and JAD also financed some of their recordings, some with Byron Lee's Dragonaires and some with other local musicians such as Jackie Jackson and Lynn Taitt. None of the Marley and Tosh songs he produced were successful. Only two singles were released at the time: "Bend Down Low" (JAD 1968) and "Reggae on Broadway" (Columbia, 1972), which was recorded in London in 1972 on the same sessions that produced "I Can See Clearly Now." It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in November 1972.[3] The I Can See Clearly Now album includes four original Marley compositions published by JAD: "Guava Jelly", "Comma Comma", "You Poured Sugar On Me" and the follow-up hit "Stir It Up". "There Are More Questions Than Answers" was a third hit single taken from the album.

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