CRMA Clement Dodd Award
CLEMENT "COXSONE"
DODD
Tonight we pay tribute to
Clement Dodd, proprietor of the famed Studio One label, pioneering record
producer, and a leading sound system operator from the early ska days
on.
In 1963 he opened the Jamaican
Recording and Publishing Company, popularly known as Studio One. It developed
into one of the few centres of the newly developing Jamaican music. He is one
of the few producers to work on his artists'
development.
When Joe Higgs took The
Wailers over to Clement Dodd's studio for an audition one day in 1963, Bob
Marley's fate and future were sealed. Marley would find his next mentor in
Coxsone, someone who would teach him not just music but the music business. Joe
Higgs had taught The Wailers to sing for pleasure. Clement Dodd would teach them
to sing for a living.
Nearly every major
artist has passed through his hands, including The Wailers, Burning Spear, Toots
and The Maytals, Rita Marley and The Soulettes, Dennis Brown, The Wailing Souls,
Joseph Hill of Culture, Marcia Griffiths, Johnny Osbourne, The Skatalites, The
Gladiators, The Heptones, Dillinger and dozens of
others.
Ladies and Gentlemen, on his
behalf I would like to accept this Award of Merit for Clement
Dodd.
Nicky
Dread,
Editor,
The
Crooked Beat Sheet.
1998?
Posted: Fri - December
12, 2003 at 01:35 PM