MP3 Exclusives New Arrivals   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Metal Pop Punk R&B Rap/Hip Hop Reggae Rock   Top Downloads Features Archive Contests Control Panel MUSICBLITZ Alert!   METALBLITZ REGGAEBLITZ BLUESBLITZ Musician's Friend   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Hip Hop Metal Pop Punk R&B Reggae Rock   Getting Started Free Players	Welcome !      Charlie Chaplin In the 1980s, there were only two DJs who seriously challenged Yellowman’s title as king of the mic in Jamaica. One was the “Outlaw,” Josey Wales, and the other was the fast-talking Charlie Chaplin, who had a sense of humor, but little patience for the lurid sex tales Yellowman made widely popular. Chaplin, whose real name was Richard Bennett, usually preferred more serious, cultural themes -- which probably cost him in the charts. But Chaplin was able to build up a sizable following in the early ‘80s when he and Wales began chatting for the Stur-Gav sound system, run by the legendary DJ U-Roy. Both Chaplin and Wales were influenced by U-Roy’s style, and both used the same group of producers in their early days, like Bunny Roots and Junjo Lawes. Chaplin found greater success, however, when he recorded with others: his first two mid-‘80s albums, Red Pond and Chaplin Chant, were overseen by Roy Cousins, and he later scored his biggest success, “Que Dem,” with George Phang, who ran the Powerhouse label. His American output included 1989’s Two Sides of Charlie Chaplin, a live-in-the-studio set with members of the Roots Radics that showed Chaplin’s lighter side -- he also recorded several other albums for RAS in the early ‘90s. By 1993, dancehall-related violence in Jamaica and a growing sense that slackness was played out led many DJs to turn back to cultural themes. Chaplin, who’d never wavered, was already there: when police cracked down on sound systems, he released the Fattis Burrell-produced single “Disciplinary Action,” which criticized DJs for letting things get out of hand. The next year a duet set with old pal Wales, Kings of the Dancehall, was released, as was the Sly and Robbie-produced Too Hot To Handle.     Charlie Chaplin Que Dem PlayJ Reggae He's a righteous Rasta, not a silent film star -- and chatting Charlie Chaplin has something to say on this classic version of a classic riddim!
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