The Jamaicans With Tommy McCook
Peace and Love
1968 · Treasure Isle TI-7037 · Jamaica
- Artist
- The Jamaicans With Tommy McCook
- Title
- Peace and Love
- Release
- Peace and Love / Woman Go Home
- Year
- 1968
- Label
- Treasure # Isle TI-7037
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Jamaica
- Genre
- Reggae · Reggae
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
The song "Peace and Love" (Treasure Isle Records # TI-7037) is a collaboration between The Jamaicans (a rocksteady group formed in 1966 in Jamaica) and Tommy McCook (reggae artist, born 3 March 1927, La Habana, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba, died 5 May 1998, Atlanta, Georgia, USA). It took a strong anti-war position, saying that the leaders were focused on war, but that the "people of the world" want "love peace and love". It pleaded with the government: "don't send my brothers to Vietnam", and looked at the impact on families: "don't let...mothers mourn, don't let my father know the pain". Released in Kingston, Jamaica.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
The Jamaicans were the documented Jamaican rocksteady vocal group who won the 1966 Festival Song Contest ("Ba Ba Boom"); "Peace And Love" (Treasure Isle TI-7037, 1968) pairs them with the tenor saxophonist Tommy McCook (born 4 March 1927 - sources split between Kingston and Havana with an early move to Kingston; died 5 May 1998 in Conyers, Georgia), founding Skatalite and leader of the Supersonics at Duke Reid's Treasure Isle. McCook's individual details stay in this biography per the joint-billing convention. [Source: Discogs; Wikipedia]
Themes
In collections
Latin & Central American, & Caribbean Music · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs