Downtown Kingston - Part II

Continuing my tour of downtown Kingston, Jamaica, we go round Sir William Grant Park and up Orange Street, the birthplace of modern Jamaican music.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Kingston
• Jamaica
• downtown
• Orange
• street
• reggae
• ska
• Prince
• Buster
• Augustus
• Pablo
• Rockers
• International
• Dennis
• Brown

[RiaBacon]

The song details are shown at 4:42. It's Prince Buster singing "Shaking up Orange Street".

Rispek.

[RiaBacon]

The main part of the clip was filmed last year, 2007. I inserted an excerpt from the 1962 movie, Dr No (the first real Bond movie), just to contrast with how the area looks now.

I didn't imagine people would think the whole clip was from 1962!

[kkpeaches]

lawd dis mek me home sick is sure ya sure dis shoot las month it look ol eh

[RiaBacon]

Is jus you an me look ol! Yes, I shot it four months ago.

[worldisc]

Cool video but your history has errors. The first ska tracks were cut at Federal Studios (Foreshore Rd. now Marcus Garvey Dr.) which is now the premises of Tuff Gong.

Coxson Dodd opened Studio One on Brentford Road circa 1964, but Duke Reid did not open Treasure Isle studios (No. 33 Bond St.) until 1966.

[RiaBacon]

I wrote that Duke Reid recorded SOME of the first ska tracks. True enough -- he was a pioneer, together with Coxsone and Prince Buster.

In part III of this little drive downtown, I visit Studio One and get a guided tour of the soon-to-be-opened (but not yet built!) museum dedicated to Coxsone. His wife is still running the place.

I'll try to edit the clip soon and upload it.

Thanks for your interest.

[marmackk]

I LOVE JAMAICA

[BaggyTrousers]

one day I hope to take that journey myself... thanks for posting!

[tumbulgumlass]

So cool seeing all of this . I went to jamaica in 1991 with my (then) Jamaican husband....It was a real eye opener for a country girl from Australia

[bishop25ful]

am proud to be a jamaican. this is the land of my birth love it

[Mofola1]

i'm not jamaican but this is interesting...i was thinking about nigeria when i saw this

[chasep2008]

penny are u mad cuz i was exactly right. nobody is attacking america just pointing out facts u idiot

[pennyredfern]

Why do peoplle think it's always Americans making nasty comments? Most of the times when I check the channels,its either canadian or english and even places like iraq or some dirt poor eastern european country, andthen sometimes you cant tell if it's an american because so many people are immigrants. Everybody is just ready to attack America.

[chasep2008]

Thank you America for good movies and music. America has no history, no culture, 1/4 of ur people are fat slobs and what's ur national dish u savages??? Cheeseburger with fries. lol. Fuck that place. LMFAO the avg american is under educated, under paid, and over patriotic lol. What are u proud of??? The meth labs in the midwest or the racists who hate their president because he is mixed?lol Or maybe ur proud of the giant new jail just built that u pass on the way to ur dead end job everyday?lol

[chasep2008]

Also since places like america are so gr8. Why don't u break ur leg and go to the hospital? Tell me how much that costs!!lol or do u have kids? When they go to college and graduate I bet they'll be paying off college loans for the rest of their life. Fuck outtta here. All America has is alot of prisons, alot of guns, pretty highways and a majority racist and ignorant population. Oh yeah and everywhere in the world almost has faster trains than USA.lol

[chasep2008]

Haters

[chasep2008]

For the haters on here listen, this is downtown the more ghetto and older side of Kingston. Most of Kingston rivals any major world city. Secondly, for a predominanty black country Jamaica is extremely developed. Go and you will be shocked. Thirdly what Does Detroit look like? Lets try Newark, NJ or Gary Indiana? These are American cities. U want to see a piece of shit visiti every single major US city.