Barrington Levy and Jah Thomas - Shine Eye Gal

Label : Jah Guidance. Vinyl, 12“, 45 RPM Released Jamaica 1979 Reggae, Dub, Dancehall Distributed by Randy’s Record Mart, 17 North Parade, Kingston. Nkrumah “Jah“ Thomas (b. 1955, Kingston, Jamaica) is a reggae deejay and record producer who first came to prominence in the 1970s, later setting up his own Midnight Rock and Nura labels. Named Nkrumah after African nationalist leader Kwame Nkrumah, he adopted the stage name Jah Thomas and began deejaying in the mid-1970s, working with producers such as Alvin Ranglin, who released his single “Midnight Rock“, which topped the Jamaican chart in 1976. Thomas’s debut album, Stop Yuh Loafin’ gained international recognition via a release on the newly-formed Greensleeves Records label. Further deejay albums appeared in the late 1970s, before Thomas began concentrating on producing other artists, such as Robert Ffrench, Anthony Johnson, Triston Palmer, Johnny Osbourne, Michael Palmer, Barry Brown, Barrington Levy, Sugar Minott,