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'''Charlie Collins''' known professionally as '''Sir Collins''' (1937 - March 28 2018) was a [[Jamaica|Jamaican]]-born British [[Record producer|music producer]], [[Record label|record label owner]] and [[Sound system (Jamaican)|sound system]] operator.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=5 April 2018|title=Pioneer Charlie Collins is dead|url=http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/entertainment/pioneer-charlie-collins-is-dead_129528?profile=1119|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-01-19|website=[[Jamaica Observer]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Gelder|first=Sam|date=28 March 2018|title=Charlie Collins: Reggae pioneer and founder of Dalston’s legendary Four Aces Club dies aged 81|url=https://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/charlie-collins-reggae-pioneer-and-founder-of-dalston-s-legendary-3589042|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-01-19|website=[[Hackney Gazette]]|language=en-UK}}</ref> |
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'''Charles Collins''', (1937 – March 2018), known professionally as '''Sir Collins''' or '''Clancy Collins,''' was a [[Jamaica]]n-born British [[Record producer|music producer]], [[Record label|record label owner]] and [[Sound system (Jamaican)|sound system]] operator.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=5 April 2018|title=Pioneer Charlie Collins is dead|url=http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/entertainment/pioneer-charlie-collins-is-dead_129528?profile=1119|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-01-19|website=[[Jamaica Observer]]}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Gelder|first=Sam|date=28 March 2018|title=Charlie Collins: Reggae pioneer and founder of Dalston's legendary Four Aces Club dies aged 81|url=https://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/charlie-collins-reggae-pioneer-and-founder-of-dalston-s-legendary-3589042|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-01-19|website=[[Hackney Gazette]]|language=en-UK}}</ref> He was a pioneer in sound system culture in the UK and was part of the development of [[Deejay (Jamaican)|deejaying]] or toasting in [[ska]] and [[rocksteady]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Heathcott|first=Joseph|date=2003-10-09|title=Urban Spaces and Working-Class Expressions across the Black Atlantic: Tracing the Routes of Ska|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/47397|journal=Radical History Review (Transnational Black Studies)|language=en|volume=87|issue=1|pages=183–206|issn=1534-1453|via=}}</ref> He co-founded the [[The Four Aces Club|Four Aces Club]] in [[Dalston, London]] with Newton Dunbar and others.<ref name=":0" /> In 1967 he started the Collins Down Beat record label in London, releasing rocksteady productions by [[Bunny Lee]] and Sir Collins including the label's first release “Sir Collins Special” by [[Lester Sterling]], which is thought to be one of the first songs with deejaying over the music.<ref>{{Cite web|last=forthesuits|date=2013-07-17|title=For The Suits Label Guide: Collins Down Beat|url=https://forthesuits.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/label-guide-collins-down-beat/|access-date=2021-01-20|website=For The Suits|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Nugent|first1=Stephen|url=|title=Rock almanac : top twenty American and British singles and albums of the '50s, '60s, and '70s|last2=Gillett|first2=Charlie|date=1978|publisher=Anchor Press|isbn=0-385-11204-1|edition=Anchor Press|location=New York|pages=29}}</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 08:03, 29 September 2023
Charles Collins, (1937 – March 2018), known professionally as Sir Collins or Clancy Collins, was a Jamaican-born British music producer, record label owner and sound system operator.[1][2] He was a pioneer in sound system culture in the UK and was part of the development of deejaying or toasting in ska and rocksteady.[3] He co-founded the Four Aces Club in Dalston, London with Newton Dunbar and others.[2] In 1967 he started the Collins Down Beat record label in London, releasing rocksteady productions by Bunny Lee and Sir Collins including the label's first release “Sir Collins Special” by Lester Sterling, which is thought to be one of the first songs with deejaying over the music.[4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Pioneer Charlie Collins is dead". Jamaica Observer. 5 April 2018. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
- ^ a b Gelder, Sam (28 March 2018). "Charlie Collins: Reggae pioneer and founder of Dalston's legendary Four Aces Club dies aged 81". Hackney Gazette. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
- ^ Heathcott, Joseph (9 October 2003). "Urban Spaces and Working-Class Expressions across the Black Atlantic: Tracing the Routes of Ska". Radical History Review (Transnational Black Studies). 87 (1): 183–206. ISSN 1534-1453.
- ^ forthesuits (17 July 2013). "For The Suits Label Guide: Collins Down Beat". For The Suits. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
- ^ Nugent, Stephen; Gillett, Charlie (1978). Rock almanac : top twenty American and British singles and albums of the '50s, '60s, and '70s (Anchor Press ed.). New York: Anchor Press. p. 29. ISBN 0-385-11204-1.
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