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Justin Hinds (7 May 1942 – 16 March 2005) was a Jamaican ska and rocksteady singer, in company of the backing vocalists the Dominoes, a duo comprising Dennis Sinclair and Junior Dixon, he is best known for his work with Duke Reid's Treasure Isle Records, where his most notable song, 'Carry Go Bring Come' recorded in late 1963, went to number one in Jamaica. Artist: Justin Hinds & The Dominoes Song: Carry Go Bring Come (Ska Version) Album: Ska Uprising. Download Carry Go Bring Come/Anthology 64 74 by Justin Hinds & The Dominoes at Juno Download. Listen to this and millions more tracks online. Carry Go Bring Come/Anthology '64-'74.

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Born	7 May 1942 Steertown, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica
Origin	Jamaica
Died	16 March 2005 (aged 62)
Occupation(s)	Vocalist
Instruments	Vocals
Labels	Treasure Isle, Island

Justin Hinds (7 May 1942 – 16 March 2005) was a Jamaican ska vocalist, with his backing singers the Dominoes.

He is best known for his work with Duke Reid's Treasure Isle Records, where his most notable song, 'Carry Go Bring Come' recorded in late 1963, went to number one in Jamaica. He recorded seventy singles between 1964 and 1966, and was the most popular artist on the record label.^[1]

Biography[edit]

Hinds was born in Steertown, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica in 1942. He started his musical career singing in bars and on the beach in Ochos Rios. Hinds moved to Kingston, Jamaica where he became influenced by Rastafari. He was turned down by Coxsone Dodd's label, but signed with Treasure Isle Records. Epson t60 driver windows 8. By this stage, the Dominoes consisting of Dennis Sinclair and Junior Dixon had become his backing vocalists.

Work with Duke Reid[edit]

This carry go bring come, my dear, bring misery This carry go bring come, my dear, bring misery You're going from home to home, making disturbances It's time you stopped doing those things, you old Jezebel The meek shall inherit this world, you old Jezebel It needs no light to see you're making disturbances It's better to seek a home in Mount.
Justin Hinds (7 May 1942 – 16 March 2005) was a Jamaican ska and rocksteady singer, in company of the backing vocalists the Dominoes, a duo comprising Dennis Sinclair and Junior Dixon, he is best known for his work with Duke Reid's Treasure Isle Records, where his most notable song, 'Carry Go Bring Come' recorded in late 1963, went to number one in Jamaica.

His first recording with Duke Reid was 'Carry Go Bring Come', made in late 1963 in one take. It became a big hit topping the Jamaican chart for two months, just before the Wailers got their big hit with 'Simmer Down'. 'Carry Go Bring Come' would later be covered by the British ska band The Selecter on their 1980 album Too Much Pressure, and by Desmond Dekker and The Specials on King of Kings.

Hinds was one of the biggest acts in Jamaican music during the 1960s. Over the next couple of years, he would release singles including 'King Samuel', 'Jump Out of the Frying Pan', 'The Ark' and 'Rub Up Push Up'. He also released 'Carry Go Bring Come' in 1963 in conjunction with Jonathan Bevan, an English-born Jamaican national, a successful collaboration which drew much admiration amongst Jamaican music producers. The track was described by esteemed Ghanaian music aficionado Zahid Chohan as 'simply wonderful; belongs in any reggae fan's collection'. He also worked with Tommy McCook and The Supersonics.

In 1966, he became active in rocksteady, a predecessor of reggae. He had several more hits in Jamaica including 'The Higher the Monkey Climbs', 'No Good Rudie', 'On a Saturday Night', 'Here I Stand' and 'Save a Bread'. Hinds parted company with Reid in 1972 as an artist, but was present when he died a few years later.

Justin Hinds was a great example for his younger cousin, Horace Andy, who would become a reggae and trip-hop icon working with bands like Massive Attack.

Subsequent work[edit]

Hinds then worked with Jack Ruby which resulted in the 1976 album Jezebel.^[2] Reviewing it in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote: 'Homey lyrics ('Jah-jah will spank you') and artful instrumental touches—I like the gentle calypso-styled horns and decorative guitar licks—may mean this is a great reggae album. But they may mean it's only a subtle one, and in such an understated genre subtlety risks extinction.'^[3]

Hinds' work with Sonia Pottinger resulted in a series of singles released in the late 1970s, including 'Rig-Ma-Roe Game' and 'Wipe Your Weeping Eyes'. After the release of Travel with Love recorded at Tuff Gong Studios in 1984, Hinds became less active. His final studio album Know Jah Better was released in 1992, but he worked on Wingless Angels with other Jamaican musicians, which was produced by Keith Richards in the early 1990s. In 1997, he toured the US for the first time and he would release a couple of live albums in the early 2000s, including one recorded at the Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance in Trumansburg, New York.

On 23 September 2010 a new album will appear posthum, Wingless Angels II, with 'Oh What a Joy, What a Comfort', guitar by Keith Richards (Rolling Stones, UK), with Lisa Fisher (also voices at 'Gimme Shelter', 'Paint it Black' and more on the Bridges to Babylon Tour 10 years ago) and Jamaican Nyabinghi Drummers

Death[edit]

Hinds died of lung cancer in March 2005, at the age of 62.^{[citation needed]}

References[edit]

^AllMusic
^Moskowitz, David V. (2006) Caribbean Popular Music: an Encyclopedia of Reggae, Mento, Ska, Rock Steady, and Dancehall, Greenwood Press, ISBN0-313-33158-8, p.139
^Christgau, Robert (1981). 'Consumer Guide '70s: H'. Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN089919026X. Retrieved 26 February 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.

External links[edit]

Allmusic.com JustinHinds article

Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Justin_Hinds&oldid=957025826'

Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post provides information about Jamaican singer/songwriter Justin Hinds and showcases sound files of Justin Hinds & The Dominos' Ska and Rocksteady records 'Carry Go CarryGo Bring Come'.
The lyrics for this song and selected comments from one of these YouTube sound files are also included in this post.

The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purpose.
All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Justin Hinds and the Dominos for their musical legacy. Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the publishers of this song on YouTube.
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/06/what-does-nigerian-pidgin-english.html for the somewhat related pancocojams post entitled 'What Does The Nigerian Pidgin English Phrase 'Carry Go' Mean? (with online definitions & comments from Nigerians).
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INFORMATION ABOUT JUSTIN HINDS
From https://www.furious.com/perfect/justinhinds.html Justin Hinds and the Dominoes

by Eric Doumerc, (May 2007)

'Justin Hinds began to make records with the Dominoes (JuniorDixon and Dennis Sinclair) forming a Jamaican harmony trio in the early 1960'sand later gained some popularity abroad in the 1990's. Sadly, today Hinds andhis comrades have remained rather unknown outside the circle of reggaecognoscenti and their music deserves much wider exposure.

Justin Hinds was born in the small village of Steertown onthe Jamaican north coast in 1942 and came to Kingston to make his way in themusic business in the early 1960's. He hooked up with the producer Duke Reid in1963 and recorded his fist song in the same year with the cream of studiomusicians at the time (Tommy McCook on saxophone, Drumbago on drums, Jah Jerryon guitar). The dominant sound at the time was ska and the Dominoes' firstsong, entitled 'Carry Go Bring Come' (a Jamaican phrase meaning agossip) was recorded in that style, with blasting horns and a driving rhythm.The song was a hit, remained in the charts for seven weeks, and launched JustinHinds' career, becoming a transatlantic smash with the UK West Indian immigrantcommunity and with the early incarnations of the skinhead movement (theSelecter covered the song in the late '70's and the Specials would later coverit with Desmond Dekker).

Hinds and his friends then recorded exclusively for DukeReid until the producer's death in 1974 and then began to record for the lateJack Ruby in 1976, a partnership which led to the release of the Jezebel LP onIsland, which included a remake of 'Carry Go Bring Home.' In spite ofone of the songs from the LP (the jubilant 'Natty Take Over') beingincluded on the soundtrack to the film Rockers, lasting recognition stillfailed to come and Hinds went into semi-retirement. Although he returned torecording in the mid-1980's when he made an album for the American Nighthawklabel (Travel with Love, 1985), he still missed out on the acclaim hedeserved. The Dominoes had to wait until the 1990's for internationalrecognition to come when they first performed at the Sierra Nevada World MusicFestival in 1996, which led to more touring in the USA and in Europe. JustinHinds died of cancer in Jamaica on March 17th, 2005.

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For Hinds and the Dominoes, their belated recognition may beaccounted for by the fact that they recorded in a style which was far removedfrom the mainstream of Jamaican music but which was nevertheless steeped in theJamaican oral tradition. Their music (in the ska, rock steady and reggae modes)is best described as 'rural' and could be said to belong to a type ofreggae music sometimes known as 'country reggae.' Groups like Stanleyand the Turbines and the Ethiopians recorded in a similar style.

The Dominoes' harmonies were church-based and Hinds himselfcame from a deeply religious family and loved to sing religious hymns inchurch. Parallel to that, he also liked listening to American popular music andhis favourite artists included Fats Domino (hence Justin Hinds and theDominoes), B.B. King, Smiley Lewis and Louis Jordan.

Hinds' lyrics were influenced both by his religiousbackground and by the Jamaican oral tradition, which is based on storytelling,proverbs, sayings and songs. His first hit, 'Carry Go Bring Come,'was about a gossip, a 'news-carrier':

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The song was an immediate hit in 1963, during the ska era, andHinds later re-cut it the rock steady idiom in 1967, and later as a Reggae songin the 1970s (on the Jezebel LP). The lyrics are a mixture of folk sayings andbiblical allusions ('Jezebel', 'Mount Zion', 'thewicked') which struck a chord with the audience. Everyone was able torelate to the general feelings expressed in the songs about the wickedoppressing the weak. After all, the song was released in 1963, just one yearafter Jamaica became independent and the colonial legacy was certainly visible atthe time.”…

Work with Duke Reid

His first recording with Duke Reid was 'Carry Go BringCome', made in late 1963 in one take. It became a big hit topping theJamaican chart for two months, just before the Wailers got their big hit with'Simmer Down'. 'Carry Go Bring Come' would later be coveredby the British ska band The Selecter on their 1980 album Too Much Pressure,and by Desmond Dekker and The Specials on King of Kings.

[…]

He also released 'Carry Go Bring Come' in 1963 inconjunction with Jonathan Bevan, an English-born Jamaican national, asuccessful collaboration which drew much admiration amongst Jamaican musicproducers. The track was described by esteemed Ghanaian music aficionado ZahidChohan as 'simply wonderful; belongs in any reggae fan's collection'….
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A number of other Reggae singers recorded 'Carry Go Come Back' including Freddy McGregor, Millie Smalls, and the Skatalites.
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WHAT 'CARRY GO BRING COME' MEANS

'Noun

Gossip. Idle talk, rumours, or salacious news about theprivate affairs of others.

brango, commesse, he say dem say, labba labba, labrish,melee, pung melee, pung name, seetful, shush, shushu, sip sip, skyat, suss,sussu, sussu sussu, yerriso'

Belna, May 19, 2015

JahMar 17, 2017

'Dwl!! Dis one old ennuh mi granny always seh dis.'
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The phrase 'carry go' is known in Nigeria, but has a different meaning (or meanings). I'm curious if there is any connection between the Jamaican phrase 'carry go bring come' and the Nigerian phrase 'carry go'.A series of posts on the Nigerian use of 'carry go' will be published ASAP on pancocojams and the link to that first post will be added here.

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YOUTUBE EXAMPLES
Example #1: Justin Hinds & The Dominoes/Carry Go Bring Come

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Carry Go Bring Come Justin Hinds & The Dominos Buford

Here are selected examples of comments (including lyrics) from the discussion thread for this sound file. Numbers are added for referencing purposes only.
1. Jimmy Fantabulous, 2011
'this song plays in the background during the following scenefrom Last Days of Disco: look up'last days of disco' and 'to thine own self be true.'
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2. Ruby Morris, 2012
'sounds awesome!! just like it should. authentic, none of thatover-engineered sound processing - thank you :)'
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3. Mike Ballard, 2012
'1963 top of the pops with a bullet, according to KeithRichards in his bio, LIFE.'
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4. Elkaosenpanama, 2014

This carry go bring come, my dear, brings misery

You're going from town to town making disturbances

It's time you stopped doing those things, you old Jezebel

The meek shall inherit this Earth, you old Jezebel

It needs no light to see you're making disturbances

It's better to seek a home in Mount Zion high

Time will tell on you, you old Jezebel

Instead of keeping oppression upon innocent man

How long shall the wicked reign over my people?

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5. Carlton Ayre, 2017
'masterpiece of skathey hail from the hills steer town in the parish ofST ANN
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6. sherwood991, 2017
'This song was banned from airplay in Jamaica, at onepoint. An interesting fact, given what'sallowed to play today.'
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REPLY
7. beanyjazz, 2018
'Any idea why sherwood991 dude?'

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REPLY
8. Andrew Palmer, 2019
'It is a protest song ,how long shouldthe wickedrainover my people is a cry forhelp its a cry for helpover prejudice'
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9. Jahson Ntare, 2018

'TYPICAL ENGAGED MUSIC

'Carry Go Bring Come' by Justin Hinds and theDominoes was very popular in 1964 and is claimed to have criticised the thenpowerful J.L.P. political leader, Alexander Bustamante, also a trade unionist(founder and leader of the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union, which has beennearly coalesced into the J .L.P., whereas the P.N.P. has obtained a strongconnection with the National Workers Union, established by Norman Manley). TheJ.L.P. was organised under the leadership of Bustamante in 1943, and the P.N.P.by M. Manley in 1938. (Interestingly Bustamante and Manley were cousins.)

The following is an excerpt from the song:

Carry go bring come, my dear, bring misery

Time, yuh stop doin' those t'ings, Yuh ole Jezebel

Instead of keepin' oppression upon a (h)innocent man

How long shall de wicked reign over my people

RASTAFARIAN MUSIC IN CONTEMPORARY JAMAICA: A Study ofSocioreligious Music

By Yoshiko S Nagashima'
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This is the only lyric transcription that I have found online that gives the line 'Better to seek a home in Mt Zion I' instead of 'Better to seek a home in Mt. Zion high'. The phrase 'Mt. Zion I' fits the Rastafarian language use of the word 'I'*. However, this may beis a Rastafarian adaptation of Justin Hinds' lyrics and not the way Hinds wrote that line.
*Click https://debate.uvm.edu/dreadlibrary/grant02.htm for a 2002 paper about Rastafarians written by William Grant. I'll quote the section of that paper about Rastafarians' use of the word 'I' in the comment section for this pancocojams post.

Carry Go Bring Come - Justin Hinds & The Dominoes

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Example #2: Justin Hinds - Carry Go Bring Come (Rock Steady Version)
The Rickynow, July 1, 2010
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