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- From: Steve Frampton <frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca>
- Newsgroups: rec.music.reggae,soc.culture.caribbean
- Subject: Shabba!
- Summary: An exercise in understanding Shabba.
- Keywords: dancehall reggae
- Message-ID: <uV0DwB1w165w@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 09:53:29 EST
- Reply-To: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca
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- Organization: Vicuna Systems, Kingston, Ontario, CANADA
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- Merry Ho Ho!
-
- Although I love soca, roots reggae, and dancehall, my preference lies
- strongly in the latter. My favorite dancehall artist is Shabba, and
- when I listen to his music I often try to "sing" along with him.
-
- Trouble is, damn that man is hard to understand! I often like to try
- and transcribe lyrics by listening to a song over and over, but trying
- to transcribe his works have been especially fruitless. And this seems
- to be exactly the way Shabba likes it, he was on Arsenio Hall once and
- was asked "What the hell are you singing??" and he responded with
- something to the effect of, "It makes no difference what I'm singing".
-
- So, there are two things I'm after here:
-
- (1) I would very much like to receive lyrics by e-mail of any of his
- songs (with the exception of "Housecall", which I already have). I would
- be more than happy to post the results of these to the music lyrics
- FTP archive site.
-
- (2) I think it would be interesting to post as much of a song as a
- person can understand, and have the rest of the net "collaborate" on
- figuring out the rest of the words. For example, I am currently working
- on "What 'Cha Gonna Do" by Shabba & Queen Latifah.
-
- What do you think? Does anybody have anything they can send me as per
- option (1) above? What about option (2), is there any interest in doing
- something like this? If so, I could post "What 'Cha Gonna Do" as the
- first attempt. I have about 75% of the song figured out.
-
- Hope to hear from ya! By the way it is great to see this newsgroup (it
- is about time), special thanks to those who voted "yes". For those who
- voted "no", YOU LOST! :-)
-
- Later...
-
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