Glen Adams

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Glen Adams (b. Glenroy Phillip Adams, 1950) is a Jamaican musician, composer, arranger, engineer, producer, based since the mid-1970s in Brooklyn, New York. Adams' first break in the music business came as a teenager when he appeared as a singer on Radio Jamaica's Opportunity Knocks show hosted by Vere Johns, and he began performing in Kingston and St. Andrews at weekends. He made his first record, "Wonderthirst", in 1960 for Coxsone Dodd at Federal Recording Studio, the title of the song becoming his nickname. He then moved on to work with Duke Reid's Treasure Isle set-up, and co-founded The Heptones before moving on to The Pioneers. Adams then moved on again to work with Bunny Lee as a solo singer and also A&R man. He began filling in on keyboards when other musicians failed to turn up for recording sessions, with sufficient success that he became known as a session player. Along with other musicians such as the Barrett brothers (Aston and Carlton), he performed in sessions for a range of producers under a variety of group names notably The Hippy Boys for Bunny Lee, where Adams did some of his most memorable work accompanying Slim Smith, The Reggae Boys, and The Upsetters for Lee "Scratch" Perry. Adams also worked for Herman Chin Loy, where he was one of a number of keyboard players to record under the name Augustus Pablo, before Horace Swaby adopted that identity. Perry took The Upsetters to tour the United Kingdom in the wake of his hit "Return Of Django" (and the less

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Wonderthirst

A Beat For You

Sound Box Essentials Platinum Edition

Trojan Beatles Tribute Box Set

I Can't Help It

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Trojan Suedehead Box Set

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Cool, Cool Rocksteady

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Sound Box Essentials (Platinum Edition)

Trojan Box Set - Beatles Tribute (CD 1)

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Jamaican Rocksteady Party

She's So Fine

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MOONWALK - treasure island skinhead reggae anthems

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