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1981 Reggae Wrap Up MD #105 with Roger Steffens December 27th-28th ’81 KTIM Part 1 Year’s Best II

Intensified! 2015 Ralph Gleason Award honoree Wendt winds up a year of mastering thanks to the Rex Foundation with this great program featuring guest Roger Steffens for Part II of their 3rd annual year’s end celebration. They pick & play the best of the rest. Here’s the previous...

December 31, 2015 midnightdread20121981, Al Campbell, Barrington Levy, Black Uhuru, Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, Gregory Isaacs, Marcia Griffiths, Mighty Diamonds, Music, Peter Tosh, Rastafarians, Rita Marley, Sugar Minott, Wailing Souls

All Request Top 5s MD #103 Dec 13-14 ’81 Pt 1 KTIM Listener Postcards

Listen up to The Listeners’ Best! Here’s their individual picks for the Top Five Reggae Songs Of All Time plus the first inkling of the ranking of their collective All Time Top Fives as the Midnight Dread drive for Top 5 postcards continues. See dem deh. Ear dem...

December 19, 2015 midnightdread20121981, Barrington Levy, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Bunny Wailer, Gregory Isaacs, Ijahman Levi, Israel Vibration, Joseph Hill, Judy Mowatt, Lone Ranger, Music, Noel Ellis, Pablo Moses, Rita Marley, Toots & The Maytals, Wailing Souls

Wailing Souls on MD #102 December 6-7th, 1981 KTIM Kingdom Rise

Wailing Souls’ Pipe, Bread, Buddy, & Garth live Midnight Dread interview introduced & interspersed with top ranking heartfelt music 6 weeks after their world debut outside Jamaica at Berkeley Reggae Sunblast. The Souls determination & strategy breeds success. Listening outside US: Listening in US: The Wailing Souls discuss...

December 11, 2015 midnightdread20121981, Henry "Junjo" Lawes, Joe Higgs, Midnight Raver Interviews, Music, Roots Radics, Scientist, Wailing Souls

Joe Higgs on MD #101 November 29-30th 1981 KTIM Proverbs Extractions

Joe Higgs, the Father of Trenchtown Music, with his 2nd live on air interview this year on Midnight Dread along with his greatest music & reggae’s best. Another listener Top 5 Reggae Songs of All Time playlist airs. “This program could affect your future musical appreciation.” The Mighty...

November 30, 2015 midnightdread20121981, Joe Higgs, Johnny Osbourne, Leroy Sibbles, Midnight Raver Interviews, Mighty Diamonds, Music, Pablo Moses, Rita Marley, Toots & The Maytals, Yellowman

Leroy Sibbles on MD #100 Nov 22-23 1981 KTIM ReggaeNomics, Sunblast tapes

Live tapes of Wailers, Marcia, Judy, Light of Love at Berkeley Reggae Sunblast the month before. Heptones’ Leroy Sibbles music & live interview. At Midnight ReggaeNomics Meets NaiveConNomics at the Roots of Reason. Big Youth explains. Program #100 delivers the goods! Hear Junior introduce The Wailers first concert...

November 27, 2015 midnightdread20121981, Bim Sherman, Congos, Heptones, Judy Mowatt, Junior Marvin, Leroy Sibbles, Marcia Griffiths, Midnight Raver Interviews, Mikey Dread, Music, Rita Marley, Wailers Band

Listener’s Top Fives MD #96 Nov 8-9 1981 KTIM Postcards

San Quentin Prison’s only a couple of miles from KTIM. One of its inmates sent in a list that gets played in this audience picked All-Time Best Five Reggae Songs special radio show where great listener selections break down the walls with crucial roots countdowns. These folks know...

November 8, 2015 midnightdread20121981, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Bunny Wailer, Gregory Isaacs, Hugh Mundell, Jimmy Cliff, Joe Higgs, Judy Mowatt, Music, Peter Tosh, Ras Michael & Sons Of Negus, Rita Marley

Halloween Uprising Midnight Dread #95 Nov 1-2 1981 KTIM Duppy Conquer

1st in series of Night of the Living Dread Halloween reggae radio specials mixed live by Doug Wendt with duppies, vampires, Babylonian monstrosities, & mind parasites under counter attack. Dub & word undermine the curse. Spirits rise. Souls settle. For the first time since its original dreadcast. Mastered...

October 31, 2015 midnightdread20121981, Black Uhuru, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Bunny Wailer, Johnny Osbourne, Peter Tosh, Roots Radics, Scientist

Berkeley Sunblast Wrap MD #94 Pt 1 Oct 25-26 1981 KTIM 1st Major US Reggae Fest pix premiere & radio recreation!

The day after North America’s 1st reggae festival Midnight Dread celebrates its success by highlighting the show’s amazing line-up: The Wailers with Judy Mowatt & Marcia Griffiths + The Light Of Love, Joe Higgs & Unity, Wailing Souls, Hugh Mundell, & Raskidus Roots Connection. Benjamin Ailes‘ historic photos...

October 26, 2015 midnightdread20121981, Black Uhuru, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Hugh Mundell, Joe Higgs, Judy Mowatt, Junior Marvin, Marcia Griffiths, Music, Reviews, Robbie Shakespeare, Sly And Robbie, Sly Dunbar, Wailers Band, Wailing Souls

Berkeley Reggae Sunblast Preview MD #93 Pt 1 Oct 18-19 1981 KTIM I-Threes Salute

Fall 1981. 5 months Bob Marley gone. John Lennon murdered 10 months before. Retro Reagan, Thatcher, Seaga… run things. In Bob’s enormous wake reggae is shining, a fire in the sky. Big future so w’gwan? Where’s Rita Marley? One Draw is the biggest reggae single ever yet in...

October 24, 2015 midnightdread20121981, Bob Andy, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Joe Higgs, John Holt, Judy Mowatt, Marcia Griffiths, Midnight Raver Interviews, Music, Reviews, Rita Marley, Suns Of Dub, Wailing Souls

Do Good MD #92 October 11-12th, 1981 KTIM Freddie McGregor interview+

Bandulo mind tricks time. AnWar assassinated. Music like Armagideon coming thru. Freddie McGregor interview + at ’81 Sunsplash JA. Joe Higgs in L.A. Do something! Do good due & overdue. World’s best music time machined on this Cultural Reservation. Visual echoing for his Tuff Gong lp debut cover,...