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2 unusual facts about Coxsone Dodd


Alec Coxon

Coxon was the namesake for the Jamaican record producer, Clement Dodd, whose boyhood cricket prowess earned him the name by which he became better known, "Coxsone."

Coxsone Dodd

He received his nickname "Coxsone" at school: because of his teenage talent as a cricketer, his friends compared him to Alec Coxon, a member of the 1940s Yorkshire County Cricket Club team.


Lynn Taitt

Lynn Taitt and the Jets played on hundreds of recording sessions for Jamaican producers such as Bunny Lee, Duke Reid, Joe Gibbs, Coxsone Dodd, and Sonia Pottinger, often performing up to five sessions a day.

Real Rock

"Real Rock" is a 1967 instrumental reggae song by Sound Dimension, one of the house bands of producer Coxsone Dodd's famous Studio One.


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