Back 2 Da Future – How Do you get Delroy Wilson to shelter under the same umbrella as Martin Lawrence?

There is a song that is in current rotation on some airwaves near you called ‘Rain From The Skies’ by one Calton Coffie. It is one of those songs that has become a perennial Reggae standard that elicits gasps of surprise when the realisation dawns that it was actually a cover. Originally penned by famed pop composers, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, it is known by many in Reggae circles from a version by the late Delroy Wilson. However it couldn’t be a standard with just one version as it was also covered by the likes of Slim Smith, Horace Andy, George Nooks, Barry Brown, Sanchez and it was also featured on UB40’s ‘Labour Of Love’ album. The current name added to the list of artists unsure of whether the water on their cheeks is from the heavens or from their own tear ducts, Calton Coffie, is not one that will roll off of the tongue of even the most ardent of Reggae fans. His voice however, is most definitely one that everyone will know.
After the premature passing of Jacob Miller in a 1980 car accident, Inner Circle disbanded only to reform again a couple of years later. By 1986 they’d found a vocalist strong enough to take on the mantle left by Miller in the form of Calton Coffie. Now embarking on a solo career, Coffie was the Grammy award-winning lead vocalist of the Band until 1995.
This was at the same time that they scored an international hit with the annoyingly catchy ‘Sweat (A La La La La Long)’. Taken from the album, ‘Bad To The Bone’, it also listed the single ‘Bad Boys’. ‘Bad Boys’ was in turn the signature tune for the TV series, COPS, as well as the Martin Lawrence/Will Smith Cop-Buddy Movie of the same title (Bad Boys), in 1995. The movie was critically panned but it worked well enough in the Box Office for a sequel to be made in 2003!!!!!!

Anyway, that is how you get Delroy Wilson to shelter under the same umbrella as Martin Lawrence – via Calton Coffie and Inner Circle.






On This Day.......

1986 – Audrey Hall was enjoying a three week run at the top of the Reggae charts With ‘Smile’ the follow-up to ‘One Dance Won’t Do’. Amazingly, ‘Smile’ reached six places higher in the pop charts than the anthemic ‘One Dance’!





This week’s number one’s around the Reggae world.

‘Call On Me’ – Jah Cure & Phyllisya /Caribbean Hot 30
‘Chocolate Fudge’ – Conadoor – Germany
‘Far Away’ – Queen Ifrica – Hype TV, JA
‘Good Girl Gone Bad’ – Tarrus Riley & Konshens - Outaroad.com, JA
‘Hallelujah’ – Elephant Man – Jamaica Music Countdown (Dancehall)
‘Heaven In Her Eyes’ – Gappy Ranks - Choice FM, London/BBC 1xtra
‘Mind On My Mind’ – Vybz Kartel - New Style, Birmingham, UK
‘So In Love’ – Hezron – Jamaica Music Countdown (Reggae)/Virgin Islands (Pictured)
‘Still Waters Run Deep’ – Maxi Priest & Richie Stephens - South Florida, USA/New York







On Air:

Fridays – 10pm -12 Midnight – Aston FM 89.1/www.astonfm.com with Chicken George
Saturdays – The Back 2 Da Future Show 7pm – 9pm – www.playvybz.com
Sundays – 10pm -12 Midnight – The Archive Selection on Choice FM as part of Natty B’s Reggae Top 20 Countdown
Mondays – 7pm -9pm The Music Business Show with Elayne Smith on www.colourfulradio.com (Monthly)

Live:

Weekly:

Saturdays – Prezedent @ Moonlighting Nightclub, London, UK



July
30th – Self Taught Beats @ Yoyo, Notting Hill Arts Club, London, England
31st - Bongo Chilli @ The Trojan Rooms with Ital Guidance Sound System, Whitley Bay, Tyne And Wear, UK
- Mr Williamz in Ipswich, UK
- Rodney P @ Ocean Spirit Festival, Santa Cruz

August
1st – Bongo Chilli @ Unity Day, Hyde Park with The Root One Band, UK
- Captain Barkey @ Bushnell Park, Hartford, Connecticut, US
6th – Prezedent @ Lovers Rock Lounge with Carroll Thompson and Black Slate, London, England
7th – Dennis Bovell @ The Big Chill Festival, Brighton, UK
8th – Bongo Chilli @ Moorsfest with The Root One Band, Ilkley, UK
- Rodney P @ Ocean Spirit Festival, Conwy, North Wales
13th – Sexy Thursdays @ , Sky Club, The Prince Albert, Wolverhampton
14th – Winston Reedy with Dennis Alcapone @ The Chiemsee Festival, Germany
15th – Rodney P @ Sikula Reggae Festival, Sicily
17th - Payday Music with The Alliance in Tokyo, Osaka, Faukuoka, Japan
22nd - Payday Music with The Alliance @ Brixton 02 Academy, London, UK
- Rodney P @ Beautiful Days Festival, Escot Park, Devon
- 23rd - Payday Music with The Alliance @ Platinum & Gold, Coventry, UK
28th - Bongo Chilli @ Uprising Festival with Roots Survival, Bratislava, Slovakia
- Sept 20th Alan Weekes in The Harder They Come – The Musical tour in Miami and Toronto
29th – Rodney P @ Ride Again Festival, Bomasco, Italy
30th – Rodney P @ Vale Earth Fair, Guernsey

September
5th – Chevelle Franklyn @ House On The Rock, The Refuge’s 10th Year Anniversary Conference, Abuja, Nigeria
13th – Rodney P @ Bestival, Isle Of Wight
19th – Lloyd Brown, Dennis ‘Matumbi’ Bovell, Sylvia Tella, Winston Reedy & Prezedent @ The Giants Of Lovers Rock @ The O2 Indigo2, London, England
23rd – 30th – Anthony Brightly @ Dejam Festival, Antigua, WI
25th – Bongo Chilli @ Vibrations with The Root One Band

October
31st - Womens Conference – Step Out & Step in to your destiny, Johannesburg, South Africa

November
16th - Lloyd Brown ‘For Your Consideration’ Album Launch, London, England
23rd - Lloyd Brown ‘For Your Consideration’ Album Tour, San Francisco, California

December 31st – Lloyd Brown @ English Pound Radio’s New Years Eve Show & Dance, Fort Lauderdale, Florida