Greatest Male Harmony in Jamaican music?

[Assasin]

Harmony as the traditionalist in us know it stop long time ago.
Harmony was something people specialized in. You had groups who specialized in harmony and was in sync, in tune, and sound good.

In modern Rand B, Hip Hop and Reggae and Dancehall, harmony is getting a decent singer in the studio to add a few lines of harmony to the song, or the orginal singer if they can hold a note add a different track. Gone are the days when Dennis Brown a harmonize on Bob Marley record, gone are the days when JC Lodge, Nadine Sutherland and others doing harmony in the studio. Gone are the days when you have Harmony groups in sync and in step on stage shows.

Dancehall harmony is Chaka Demus and plyers, Tonto Metro and Devonte, usually a DJ and a singer trying to ketch a note. You have a few groups like TOK and LUST who can hold their own but it is few and far between in today's music.

Di truth a di truth, make no sense we argue over it.

Tell me where you can find this ya kind of Harmony nowadays

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JhTM0Lar3Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6aiNXCqYj8

Home T may have been the last good Harmony group.

[HL]

Yes but how does it qualify as harmonizing?

Leave it alone I'man.

[Jangle]

So I was sticking to harmonizing groups and not reading Histy's criteria - Male Harmony: A tight, well coordinated combination of tenor, baritone and sometimes bass behind the lead vocalist. Falsetto can also play a part.

Here's some tight harmonizing:

Jimmy Riley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6j9RLyxOGs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsKGPaEvA2I

[Islandman]

Can't leave out The Techniques

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GZnJuOy0ac

[Jangle]

X I like your choices. I was going to put up the Tamlins myself but I'm going to stretch myself a little to answer Histy's question about harmonizing. I submit these:

Third World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64Dd8J_vj8Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvan0RMegP0

Mighty Diamonds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAYzOz14OrI

Slim Smith & The Uniques

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21PUe4OLuQI

Steel Pulse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dZlRRF0hDo

These double as Harmonizing Dancehall music:

TOK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVUIviggznY

C Sharp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th0pTT1vKcw

LUST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMG14V3HOgw

[Islandman]

Yes but how does it qualify as harmonizing?

[Rockman]

Recently, I was thinking about the role and success of the singing of parts (harmony) in Jamaican recorded music. And I’m referring here to the SERIOUS genres ska, rocksteady and reggae (dancehall will rarely ever count in ANY serious music discussion initiated by me)

In the end,not asking that question saved whatever little credibility you have remaining on the issue.

[Sir X]

Dont have to , its for me to like.

[HL]

Supercat ,nicodemus,and junior demus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1Ry5cUCOT4

Supercat nicodemus and tenor saw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAK7zvSZFqg



But i like the tamlins and paragons in their genre.

As much as I used to BUY and listen to those dance hall chune back in the daze. Try again!!

[Sir X]

Supercat ,nicodemus,and junior demus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1Ry5cUCOT4

Supercat nicodemus and tenor saw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAK7zvSZFqg



But i like the tamlins and paragons in their genre.

[HL]

Pay attention but ignore the jab he took at Dancehall?
Simply amazing,you are telling me to pay attention but object to my doing exactly that.

I was going to ask that you list some dance hall songs that have the type of [the three man harmony] that Historian alluded to. But I won't, since this will distract from the topic.

[Rockman]

Pay attention but ignore the jab he took at Dancehall?
Simply amazing,you are telling me to pay attention but object to my doing exactly that.

[HL]

The Tamlins and paragons for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTVzz-XyotE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU5G...d3DuTA42MQWRlU

Paragons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECwM...wKUHUlvpnUZFWe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UwD...wKUHUlvpnUZFWe

Spot on X,

Tamlins were one of my favorite harmonizing group.

Isreal Vibration and (like it or not) Culture were good harmonizers IMO.

[HL]

Historian,say you ordered a rare music CD ,does that CD lose value based on the delivery method,say FedEx,UPS or a carrier riding a bicycle?
Why do you stigmatize dancehall when it too is about lyrical content?

Pay attention Rockman!

Let's finish with this very good topic presented by Historian... before you throw a stone in it's cog.

[Rockman]

Historian,say you ordered a rare music CD ,does that CD lose value based on the delivery method,say FedEx,UPS or a carrier riding a bicycle?
Why do you stigmatize dancehall when it too is about lyrical content?