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Glen Brown Glenmore Lloyd Brown Kingston Jamaica 1944 – 4 October 2019 Was A Jamaican Singer Musician And Record Producer Working Primarily In The Genres Of Reggae And Dub. Brown Began His Musical Career In The 1960s As Vocalist With Sonny Bradshaw's Jazz Group Subsequently Recording Duets With Hopeton Lewis Lloyd Robinson And Dave Barker For Producers Such As Duke Reid And Coxsone Dodd. In The Early 1970s He Began Working As A Producer Initially For The Shalimar Label And Recorded Augustus Pablo-Influenced Melodica Tracks Such As 1972's "Merry Up". He Also Recorded For Prince Buster Leslie Kong And Derrick Harriott. He Formed Two Record Labels Pantomime Or Pantomine And South East Music And Produced Tracks By U Roy Gregory Isaacs Big Youth I-Roy Prince Jazzbo Johnny Clarke Lloyd Parks And Little Roy. Due To Low Funds His Early Releases Were Pressed In Limited Runs But Have Since Become More Widely Available On Various Compilations Such As The Way To Mount Zion Featuring Material From The 1969-1976 Period And Termination Dub Featuring Material Recorded With King Tubby Between 1973 And 1979 . Although He Had Fewer Hits In The Latter Half Of The 1970s He Maintained His Profile With Hits From The Likes Of Wayne Jarrett And Sylford Walker. In 2000 Small Axe And Terminal Head Remixed Brown's Work For A Single Release That Included Remixes Of Fellow Reggae Artist Yabby You. In 2002 Glen Brown's Single Produced By Ras Kush "We Dem A Watch" Was The First Release On New York's Black Redemption Label. In 2010 Brown Was Admitted To A New York Nursing Home Suffering From Renal Failure Diabetes Loss Of Vision Dementia And A Heart Condition. Like Many Jamaican Musicians He Has Not Benefitted Greatly From Sales Of His Recordings Limiting The Treatment That He Can Receive. He Died At The Far Rockaway Center For Rehabilitation And Nursing In New York On 4 October 2019 At The Age Of 75. Partial Album Discography
As Musician
Glen Brown Sings Melodica Talks Number One Sound 1988 Pantomime Records PRLP444 Glen Brown Plays Music From The East 1990 Fashion Mike Brooks And Glen Brown Meet Rhythm Foundation Ina Sound Clash 1990 Rhythm Foundation With Mike Brooks
Cotton Style 1990 South East - With Joseph Cotton Credited To 'Joseph Cotton And The Lord Son' As Producer
Double Attack The Original Pantomime DJ Collection 1972-74 Greensleeves Boat To Progress The Original Pantomime Vocal Collection 1970-74 Greensleeves Check The Winner The Original Pantomime Instrumental Collection 1970-74 1989 Greensleeves GREL603 1990 Shanachie SH 47007 Horny Dub 1989 Grounation Dub From The South East 1991 Pantomime Records PRLP02 Termination Dub - Glen Brown And King Tubby 1996 Blood & Fire BAFCD015 The Way To Mount Zion 1998 ROIR RUSCD8215 Rhythm Master Volume One 2004 Hot Pot HPCD1001 Rhythm Master Volume Two 2005 Hot Pot HPCD1003 Green Bay Killing Pantomime Dirty Harry - Version Excursion Hot Pot Ghettoman Corner - Welton Irie Pantomime Lamb's Bread - Sylford Walker Pantomime Brown Began His Career Singing Harmony In The 1960's On Tracks Produced By Prince Buster Sir Coxsone Dodd Leslie Kong Derrick Herriot. While Never Recognized As The Preeminent Dub Musician In Jamaica Melodica Toting Glen Brown Aka Glenmore Brown Was A Prodigious Studio Musician Particularly In The 1970's When He Worked With Artists Like King Tubby Soul Syndicate The In Crowd U-Roy Tommy McCook Welton Irie Ken Boothe Roots Radics And Big Youth. Among The Artists Heard On His Numerous Studio Rhythm Cuts Are Famed Reggae And Dub Players Like Ansel Collins Peter Tosh Carlton Barrett And Bongo Herman. His Early Outputs Of Rhythm Tracks Have Been Compiled And Reissued On The ROIR Album "The Way To Mt. Zion" Spanning 1969-1975. The Pick Of His Later Co-Productions With King Tubby Spanning 1973-79 Were Compiled On The 1996 Blood & Fire Collection "Termination Dub". Another Batch Of His Older Works Is Collected On The Recent 2 Edition Set Of The "Rhythm Master" Series Released Through Cooking Vinyl. Residing In New York Brown Was Active As A Producer And Songsmith In 2003 Worked With Yabby You. read less