1962
MISS JAMAICA * JIMMY CLIFF * ISLAND 016 * UK
Jimmy Cliff a.k.a. James Chambers, was born 1948, St. Catherine his earliest recordings Daisy Got Me Crazy backed by Count Boysie, were done when he was just 14 years old in 1962 for sound system operator Sir Cavalier. That same year he recorded the self penned Hurricane Hattie which was to be his first chart success. He soon became a prominent name in Jamaican music and Leslie Kong's first Ska vocalists. The above, another Jimmy Cliff composition, is a Beverly's production