Ebony Sisters - Tell Love Hello

Cat No: CATS003
Format: 7" Vinyl
Available From: 02 Jun 2023
Genre: Reggae / Dub

a1. Ebony Sisters - Tell Love Hello
b1. Sid Bucknor - Tell love hello (Instrumental Dub)

Engineering releases for the likes of:
Bob Marley & The Wailers, The Cimarons, Alton Ellis, Augustus Pablo, Delroy Wilson, Ken Boothe, Max Romeo, Lloyd Parks Ranking Dread & many other reggae greats!

There is no doubt that anyone familiar with the history of Jamaican popular music will admit that Sid Bucknor (real name Norman Bucknor, a cousin on the side of Coxsone Dodd's father) was a giant in the music business. As a studio engineer, producer and songwriter, he was instrumental in the development of Jamaican music from Ska, Rocksteady and Reggae. Sid helped shape the sound of music alongside the musicians of the day and pioneered new ways and techniques to capture the feel and spirit of music. His contributions to Jamaican music cannot be overlooked. Much of his overwhelming success can be directly attributed to his creative genius and pioneering style. He was also a very patient teacher, and was always happy to pass on his knowledge and skills to anyone who wanted to learn. One of the people he trained during his work on the Coxsone Dodd board at Studio One in the mid-1960s was singer and producer Enos McLeod. In the first half of the 1960s, Sid worked as a resident engineer at Duke Reid's Treasure Isle studio. Because it was a prolific time on Treasure Isle, Sid Bucknor was involved in creating many of the Ska hits of the time. In the late 1960's Sid worked extensively with producer Rupie Edwards and it was actually Sid Bucknor who transferred the tracks featured on the compilation "Rupie's Scorchers - Classic Early Success Productions 1969-71" from the original master tapes to DAT.

In addition to being a resident engineer at Treasure Isle Studio and the legendary Studio One, Sid has also worked at Dynamics Studios, Federal Studio, Harry J Studios, Randys Studio, King Tubbys, Joe Gibbs Studio, and Channel One. The latter was built on Maxfield Avenue in 1972 by the Hoo Kim brothers, who had moved into jukebox recording and game machine distribution. By 1973 the studio was operational, with Sid Bucknor in charge of recording, assisted by Ernest Hoo Kim. "Don't Give Up the Fight" by Stranger and Gladdy was the first release on the Chanel One label engineered by Sid Bucknor. Sid Bucknor has worked with all the big names in the Jamaican music industry. He recorded and mixed the Bob Marley And The Wailers album "Natty Dread". During his long and illustrious career Sid also recorded, mixed and produced all the other Jamaican greats: Toots and The Maytals, Desmond Dekker, Big Youth, Alton Ellis, BB Seaton, Ken Boothe, John Holt, Bob Andy and many more, the list is endless. The same goes for the producers he worked with such as: Duke Reid, Coxsone Dodd, Rupie Edwards, Clancy Eccles, Glen Brown, Lloyd Charmers, Harry Mudie, Winston "Niney" Holness, Joe Gibbs, Bunny Lee just to name a few. When he immigrated to England in the 1970s, he continued to spread the sound of Reggae music. Sid has worked at Island's Basing Street Studios, Chalk Farm Studio, BBMC Studio, Hackney Community College Studio, Tony King Studio, Odessa and many more. Sid Bucknor, along with Sylvan Morris, was honored as an engineer at the inaugural The JARIA Inaugural Honor Award ceremony held on March 1, 2009, at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston, Jamaica.

Sid Bucknor passed away on May 9, 2010 from cancer at St. Charles, in Ladbroke Grove, in London, United Kingdom.

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