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Manley Augustus Buchanan (born 19 April 1949, Trenchtown, Kingston, Jamaica), better known as Big Youth (sometimes called Jah Youth), is a Jamaican deejay, mostly known for his work during the 1970s.
He commented, "Deejays were closest to the people because there wasn't any kind of establishment control on the sound systems".
Before beginning his musical career, Buchanan worked as a diesel mechanic at Kingston's Sheraton Hotel, where he would develop his toasting skills while he worked, and was nicknamed "Big Youth" by his co-workers. He started to perform at dances, initially influenced by U-Roy, and became a regular with Lord Tippertone's sound system by 1970, becoming the resident deejay, and attracting the attention of Kingston's record producers. His early singles for producers such as Jimmy Radway ("The Best Big Youth"), Lee Perry ("Moving Version") and Phil Pratt ("Tell It Black") were artistically and commercially unsuccessful.
By 1972 he had begun working with Augustus "Gussie" Clarke, a teenage producer whose rhythms and singers were more in tune with the vibes on the streets of Kingston, and "The Killer" (on a version of Horace Andy's "Skylarking" rhythm) became his first major Jamaican hit, soon followed by "Tippertone Rocking". Following this, he released the hugely successful "S-90 Skank", featuring a motorbike being revved in the studio, for Keith Hudson's Imbidmts label, versioning the producer's own "We Will Work It Out". This became his first Jamaican number one hit, and also featured in a television advert for the Honda motorcycle that inspired it. The first album to feature his vocals, Chi Chi Run was produced by Prince Buster in 1972. Distinctive musically, his half-sung style contrasting with his contemporaries, he was also visually distinctive, with his teeth inlaid with red, gold, and green jewels.
Big Youth - Dreadlocks Dread (full album)
Big Youth - Cool Breeze
Big Youth Screaming Target FULL LP
Big Youth - U Roy - I Roy - Trinity - Dillinger - Kojak - Prince Far I - Justice Sound.
Big Youth Intreview (Irish & Chin)
Big Youth - Screaming Target (Official Audio)
Big Youth [Live at Reggae Sunsplash 1982] (Full Audio)
Big youth - Isaiah First Prophet Of Old
Big Youth - Natty Dread She Want/Soldering
Big Youth - Hit the road jack (full album)
Actors: Sandy McLeod (miscellaneous crew), Sandy McLeod (actress), Shelley Houis (miscellaneous crew), David Streit (producer), Ted Bafaloukos (director), Ted Bafaloukos (writer), Robbie Shakespeare (actor), Big Youth (actor), Susan Steinberg (editor), Errol Brown (actor), Gregory Isaacs (actor), Winston Rodney (actor), Jacob Miller (actor), Avrom Robin (producer), Leroy 'Horsemouth' Wallace (actor),
Plot: Horsemouth sets himself up in business selling records but when gangsters steal his bike things start to turn nasty. As tensions build, Horsemouth and friends plot to end the gangsters reign of terror and restore justice to the people of Kingston(?)
Keywords: breaking-the-fourth-wall, burglary, cannabis, caribbean, discrimination, forbidden-friendship, ghetto, intolerance, jamaica, jamaican-patoisActors: Udo Kier (actor), Vic Armstrong (actor), Cheryl Leigh (miscellaneous crew), Jim Connock (editor), Brian Smedley-Aston (actor), Brian Smedley-Aston (producer), Patsy Smart (actress), James Kenelm Clarke (writer), James Kenelm Clarke (director), Linda Hayden (actress), Karl Howman (actor), Fiona Richmond (actress), Paul Raymond (producer), Steve Gray (composer), Sallianne Branson (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: A novelist (Udo Kier) hires a quiet British country house so that he can work on finishing his latest novel. His agent arranges for a secretary to stay with him, in order to speed up its completion (played by Linda Hayden). However, this turns out to be a big mistake when she reveals that she has actually come to kill him for stealing the manuscript for his last novel from her husband, which drove him to suicide. The housekeeper, Kier's girlfriend (played by 70's sex superstar Fiona Richmond) and 2 local thugs all meet horrific ends as Hayden goes on her killing spree.
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